No Cold War Online launch, 16th June 2021: Return of the Opium Wars Text of Anna Chen’s speech: Opium Wars 2 Tonight, I’m going to discuss the current build-up in hostility towards China in the context of the Opium Wars of the 19th century and the propaganda war leading us there once again. At the […]
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Ain’t life funny? The HSBC started off in the 19th century opium wars, servicing the British narcocapitalists, and here they are still at it, laundering drugs money for Mexican drugs lords. You’d think, given the severity of US drugs laws and how they slap every spliffer and cannabis-dealing youth into jail — especially if they’re
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The Opium War by Julia Lovell Review by Anna Chen – 17 May 2012 The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.George Orwell With renewed calls for the West to assert its imperial might in the interest
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Gary Lammin is Master of Ceremonies in The Hackney Tea Ceremony, part of The Steampunk Opium Wars debut at the National Maritime Museum on 16th February 2012. With legendary radical theatre impressario Neil Hornick as Captain Ironside. Written by Anna Chen with additional material by Gary Lammin. Additional video by Jeff Willis. The Steampunk Opium
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The Steampunk Opium Wars. So what’s it all about? Deborah Evans-Stickland as Britannia sings her Flying Lizards hit, “Money” (That’s what I want). Rule Britannia played by Charles Shaar Murray. The Narrator: Anna Chen Camera: Jeff Willis Pictures here. FACEBOOK The Steampunk Opium Wars pages: The Steampunk Opium Wars Home Page Afterview The Company: who
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Here’s the first extract from The Steampunk Opium Wars which debuted at the National Maritime Museum on Thursday. The story so far … The East India Company has been growing mass-produced opium in Bengal and swamping China with the narcotic, turning an aristocratic vice into a mass addiction. The Emperor calls in Commissioner Lin Zexu
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