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The Fox-ification of the US media proceeds apace. In Italy, the country’s media mogul doubles as Prime Minister. In Britain public broadcasting…
Gavan McCormack
East Asian Community: The Unfinished Project of the 1930s Japan‘s 1930s Manchukuo project concentrated the idealism, imagination, and energy of a…
1. The “Trustworthy Ally” Half a century ago, General Douglas MacArthur, proconsul in the US occupation, was acclaimed as a benevolent…
Coastal defenses in Western Japan were threatened in late August by a ferocious storm, typhoon no. 16, that happened to coincide with…
Boots One week before UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s visit to Japan this February, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi declared it crucial for…
(Gavan McCormack is author of the just released Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, New York,…
1. ‘Sunshine’ The recent outpourings of analysis and comment on the ‘Korean problem’ around the world are characterized by righteous indignation and…
North Korea ranks high on the Bush administration’s list of ‘terror states’. The January 2002 ‘Axis of Evil’ speech and the June…