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Sat, May 30, 2020 | 07:51

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

A more global Korea for the 2020s

A more global Korea for the 2020s

The startling chasm between the positions taken by the U.S. and South Korea concerning sharing the costs of U.S. troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula in the negotiations on the SMA (Special Measures Agreement) reflect, along with the idiosyncratic and counterproductive approach of the Trump administration, a deeper and potentially more fundamental divergence in perspectiv...

2020-01-12 09:46

Climate change must be the alpha and omega of security for United States

Climate change must be the alpha and omega of security for United States

As I pen these words, I am tempted to double my dose of anti-psychotic medication. After all, I wake up every morning to what seems to be a normal world. I have a cup of coffee with friends at Peet's Coffee, I attend thoughtful seminars near K Street and then I read newspapers and books that describe what appears to be a normal and functional world. But when I go home at nigh...

2019-12-21 11:16

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