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In this new year of 2010 I hope everyone can continue to be optimistic as this ever struggling economy still has a heart beat, although we have been told our economies have recovered our wages are still just as terrible ( I think not ). There is still no excuse for not making the best of what we have and we should continue to strive for new heights.

In the past, this website had primarily worked on with publishing Asian related content, intelligent opinions, informative articles and any positive Asian media.

This year there will be a slight adjustment to the style of posting, usually we would publish news without actual commentary but as of today we will be adding in our 2 cents worth to everything post. Ideally would like to throw topics in the air and have people take it upon themselves to think about issues. 

We'll try to remain objective about each issue.

The first fear mongering article I've come across since the beginning of this new year sums up all the forecasts of "experts" panic stricken and fear mongering media who can only see this world burning in hell.

Mostly Water - First written in 1972, it was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now - thus this review focusing on Hudson's new preface, introduction, and detailed account of the book's theme.

He revisited it in his 2008-09 Project Censored award- winning article titled: "Economic Meltdown - The 'Dollar Glut' is What Finances America's Global Military Build-up" in which he explains the following - the "inter-related dynamics" of:

-- "surplus (US) dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers;"

-- global central banks "recyl(ing) these dollar inflows (into) US Treasury bonds to finance the federal US budget deficit; and most important (but most suppressed in the US media),"

-- "the military character of the US payments deficit and the domestic federal budget deficit."

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Professor Russell C. Leong, director of UCLA's U.S./China Media Brief, asked one of Chicago's leading Asian American educators, Dr. Yvonne Lau of De Paul University, to comment about Obama's work in Chicago to integrate the Chinese language and less commonly taught tongues into the Chicago and Illinois school curriculums. Obama's work in this area is little-known. Dr. Lau provides an "insider's view" of Obama's "Chinese connection."

Dr. Lau writes about Obama's activism in Chicago's multiracial and multicultural communities, and about his support of, in Lau's words, "more American students to learn about Asia, Asian Americans, and the study of Asian languages."

History was made in November when Sen. Barack H. Obama was elected to become the 44th president of the United States. Now, with the Jan. 20 inauguration ahead, change is coming not just to the White House but to relationships the U.S. has with other nations around the world, including China.

As a result, the following question was posed by Professor Russell C. Leong, director of UCLA's U.S./China Media Program, which produced the U.S./China Media Brief, to students of English and international relations at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing: "What do Chinese youth think about the next U.S. president and Sino-U.S. relations?"

ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE TELEVISION MEDIA: CREATING INCENTIVE FOR CHANGE
Audrey Kwak

RACE AND PLACE: EQUITY ISSUES IN URBAN AMERICA. By John W. Frazier, Florence M. Margai, and Eugene Tettey-Fio. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press 2003. Pp. 274.