Posts with tag asia

Philippines Halts Death Squads on Way to Martial Law

James Corbett, February 4 2017

...here I am in the absurd position of having to actually say that maybe, just maybe, government death squads are a bad idea. Just ask the people of the Philippines.

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The North Korean Nuclear Dance

James Corbett, March 8 2017

The North Korean nuclear dance has sometimes been perceived as a type of harmless parochial hoedown.... But with every new spin around the floor, the dance gets more serious.

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I hope I’m Wrong

Bob Rinear, April 5 2017

 Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles.

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The North Korea Armada Story Was MSM Fake News

James Corbett, April 22 2017

As it turns out, the armada was 3,500 miles away from Korea and heading in the exact opposite direction when the MSM started flipping its lid...

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India and Pakistan, Friends At Last (?)

James Corbett, June 17 2017

So have India and Pakistan turned a corner? Has China and its SCO partners found a way to bring these bitter enemies together in peace and harmony? Well, let's not get carried away here.

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North Korea

Bob Rinear, September 20 2017

The question is, what is the answer? Is the US ever going to be comfy with a nuclear North? Nope. Yet they too know that if we go in, it’s going to be uglier than most imagine.

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America, China, and the Battle for the “Indo-Pacific”

James Corbett, March 10 2018

... the writing is on the wall: The neocons in charge of the American war machine have chosen India to be their next best hope for a potential roadblock to Chinese dominance in Asia, and they're re-naming the entire region just to prove it.

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North Korean Leader’s Cross-Border Walk for Peace

Stephen Lendman, April 28 2018

Given Washington’s permanent war policy, its long history of breaching agreements reached, its hostility toward all sovereign independent countries, it takes a giant leap of faith to believe it’ll turn a page on North Korea for peace on the peninsula.

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Japan’s Stealth Army

James Corbett, May 5 2018

The Japanese government is too busy buying US missile defense systems and building their own cruise missiles to worry about whether or not they get their way on the constitutional debate.

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Did the Korean War End This Week?

James Corbett, September 22 2018

A real, workable, viable peace treaty isn’t even on the table. And, sadly, given the repeated signs that the US is not negotiating in good faith, it seems exceedingly unlikely that we’ll see such a deal any time soon.

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False Flags Over Kashmir

James Corbett, March 9 2019

So now we have a perfect mess in Kashmir. It contains territories administered by three nuclear powers, all of whom have been to war in the region within living memory...

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Japan’s Emperor Is Abdicating. Here’s What It Means.

James Corbett, March 30 2019

The hope for many is that this coming period will be one of renewal for the Japanese, economically, politically and otherwise...

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The Kashmir Crisis

James Corbett, August 10 2019

Out of all this mess, one thing is for certain: Whatever comes of these moves by India, the Kashmirs themselves will be the first to face the consequences of those actions and the last to reap any dividends.

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Hong Kong: Chaos Before the Order

James Corbett, August 17 2019

One thing is for certain: the fight for the future of Hong Kong is raging as we speak. But the real question is: who is fighting that fight? The people of Hong Kong, or Beijing and Washington?

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It’s Good To Be King (of Thailand)

James Corbett, August 24 2019

Long live the King! And long live all the royal superhumans remaining on this planet who are so evidently better than us mere commoners!

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The Great Withdrawal

James Corbett, June 20 2020

And while no one of these stories itself amounts to an End of the Empire moment, taken together they point definitively to the tectonic change that is coming.

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