Tag: Kim Jong Un
Pyongyang on the Potomac
When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shook hands on June 30 at the line dividing the two Koreas, the pictures that...
What’s behind Bolton’s attacks on the ‘troika of tyranny’?
With all eyes focused these days on Trump and his myriad crimes, John Bolton’s speeches are a reminder that even worse options are waiting in the wings.
An unholy alliance: Trump, Putin, Kim Jung-Un, and Mohammed bin Salman
“An alliance which is perceived as unnatural, unusual, or simply undesirable, sometimes between seemingly antagonistic parties.”
Trump’s investment in North Korea
What’s important is that Trump is invested in the success of his venture. Because if it fails, he fails. And Donald Trump doesn’t like to fail.
World to refugees: Go to hell
Over 22.5 million people have been forced to flee their countries. Last year, less than 200,000 were resettled.
No, Not Nixon, Not China
“I will make only one prediction: the Nobel Peace Prize committee will emphatically not offer that to Trump nor Kim.”
Trump’s North Korea Summit reveals Democratic Party fault lines
In the United States, Democrats and Republicans should unite behind the peace movements that are driving this diplomatic opening.
Liberals are criticizing the Korea Summit from the Right. Here’s why...
With an end to the 68-year Korean War finally in sight, some U.S. “progressives” are pushing Trump to be more hardline – despite the fact that Koreans overwhelmingly want peace.
Trump’s relentless lies demand we make truth-telling great again
Not unlike Kim, Trump lies to hide the brutality of his cruel policies.
Trump’s Korean shell game
The U.S. and North Korean leaders are both playing a long con designed to maintain their own short-term political survival.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.