Expert highlights government actions as reason for dry-up, not just absence of rain.
6.8M earthquake triggers lockdown criticism
As disaster strikes the southwest of China’s Chengdu capital, residents are left reeling from a fixation on pandemic restrictions in the midst of an emergency.
The Great Absurdity
Is insisting on “Zero Covid,” an early rehearsal for total social control?
Lianfang Street Standoff

A rare rupture in crowd control reveals the level of “zero-COVID” frustration in China.
Sichuan power crunch sparks calls for rethink of coal in China’s energy mix
The hydropower hub calls into question the race for renewable energy.
Ten days in Xi’an

Probe International Exclusive: The extraordinary account by acclaimed independent investigative journalist, Jiang Xue, detailing the unprecedented lockdown of the city of Xi’an, in central China’s Shaanxi Province, is now available to read […]
A 2nd Chernobyl
Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?
Farewell China NGO Project

An independent source of analysis on foreign NGOs working in China is ending its run after five years.
The Big Green Lie almost everyone claims to believe
The claim that the “science was settled” on climate change never withstood scrutiny. What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of […]
Russian derangement syndrome Trumps all
To punish Russia, the Europeans are knowingly visiting far more severe punishments on themselves. A greater punishment still is being voiced in the form of nuclear war.
The impossible green dream
Instead of refurbishing an old and deteriorating natural gas pipeline that has served Ottawa for 65 years, Ottawa is investing instead in a fantasy strategy it calls its Energy Evolution plan. Unfortunately, […]
Ottawa is committing suicide

Will Ottawa be the first capital city to die a woke death?
Meet the world’s most powerful anti-vaxxers: Big Pharma

Government intervention wooed Big Pharma back to loser vaccines that would have otherwise only thrived in totalitarian countries where the health of the government trumps that of the citizen.
Food, fuel, and inflation crises all stem from globalist policies

Globalists may believe that the world needs their new world order. But they also exemplify the adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Why did Putin apologize to Israel?

An antagonistic Israel isn’t in Russia’s interest.