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Sun, May 31, 2020 | 19:29

The potential of the internet for public diplomacy in the age of COVID-19

The potential of the internet for public diplomacy in the age of COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has extended to every aspect of our modern society, creating institutional paralysis, severely limiting our ability to travel, and recently, with the controversy over social network freedom within the United States, there is even a risk that there will be increasing limits on our ability to interact in a meaningful manner with each other online. The crisis...

2020-05-31 11:37

What is security?

What is security?

What exactly is meant by the word “security?” The question is so simple as to be overwhelming. And, as critical as the question is, granted the billions - even trillions - of dollars that we spend on security, most of the experts who strut around at lavish think tanks, or who pontificate to us from the Pentagon, or from the National Security Council, or from various news prog...

2020-05-30 10:39

Why run as an independent candidate for president?

Why run as an independent candidate for president?

My name is Emanuel Pastreich and I have declared myself an independent candidate for president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. I have been a teacher for most of my career, teaching at university level, but also for high school, starting in 1998 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My specialty has been East Asian studies, covering the cultu...

2020-05-23 09:59

'Movementism,' 'complainism' and 'magicianism'

'Movementism,' 'complainism' and 'magicianism'

The rate of the economic, institutional and cultural collapse in the United States increases, so that today almost everyone can sense something is fundamentally wrong in our country and that the newspapers and TV stations are incapable of doing anything besides presenting us fairy tales. We seem powerless to stop the transformation of our country into a moral desert, to be re...

2020-05-17 11:59

'A democratic economy'

'A democratic economy'

The COVID-19 crisis is not the result of a single virus. No single virus could create such deep uncertainty and fear in our country; no disease could unleash such horrific ambivalence and unspeakable loathing. No, we face the collapse of an economic system that has been so puffed up with air, so corrupted by derivatives and quantitative easing, so diluted by stock buybacks an...

2020-05-09 09:30

Rise of Christian Zionists in US government and collapse of chain of command

Rise of Christian Zionists in US government and collapse of chain of command

The Trump administration makes policy and manages the federal government through the combined efforts of two distinct groups: a small group of the super-rich and a spreading network of radicalized Christian Zionists who appeal to a growing population of disaffected and alienated working-class whites in the United States. Both groups have a shared interest in pushing forth a s...

2020-04-18 10:28

COVID-19 and implosion of global economy

COVID-19 and implosion of global economy

This is a transcript from “Betting on the Pandemic” on Political Misfits (hosted by Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas) on Sputnik Radio, March 31, 2020, that featured Korea Times online columnist Emanuel Pastreich.

2020-04-04 10:33

Note found in a bottle in the age of COVID-19

Note found in a bottle in the age of COVID-19

I found this message scrawled on a single sheet of paper and crammed in a bottle that washed up on the coast. I present it to you for your reference exactly as I found it. “Thanks for nothing, you citizens of that country formally known as the United States. Have a good life because now you are totally on your own.

2020-03-24 15:11

The coronavirus scare in Seoul: How viral hysteria kills science and policy

The coronavirus scare in Seoul: How viral hysteria kills science and policy

I thought for a moment that I had entered an operating room when I stepped aboard a Korean Air flight bound for Seoul this week. The entire crew wore spanking-new white masks on their clean faces. They did their best to be welcoming despite the impression of catastrophe that their appearance gave us. The passengers around me spent the flight taking about the coronavirus in Ko...

2020-02-23 14:13

Korea's solution to the Middle East crisis: Go for zero

Korea's solution to the Middle East crisis: Go for zero

The request from the Trump administration that South Korea join a new naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz, at precisely the moment the entire region is on fire, places Seoul in a difficult position. Not only is the push for military conflict with Iran, which is making Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immensely unpopular with many Americans (including many in the military), th...

2020-01-18 09:38

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