Saturday, August 22, 2026

Tag: South Korea

US misses opportunity for peace progress at Olympics

Peace is made more difficult with the U.S. threatening a ‘bloody nose’, teenage bully talk for a military first strike, against North Korea.

South Korea slips off the US leash

What we’re really seeing here is South Korean President Moon Jae-in making a bold move to assert South Korea’s independence from the United States.

On Asia trip, Trump met by protests calling on US to...

Professor Bruce Cumings, who just returned from Seoul, South Korea, talks about Trump and how upon his arrival he was met with protests.

Can a war of words become a world of war?

Andrew Bacevich and Bill Moyers talk Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Urgent warning: Time to hit the reset button on US-Korean policy

Given the specter of nuclear war, the rational policy is one of de-escalation.

How can South Korea help prevent U.S. attack on North Korea?

South Korea can take the lead in establishing better relations with North Korea.

Avoiding apocalypse on the Korean peninsula

Why diplomacy is not naïve appeasement in the Korean crisis.

This Activist Is Raising 200 Dogs After Saving Them From South...

For the past twenty-six years, the activist and animal lover, 61-year-old Jung Myoung Sook, has been rescuing dogs intended to be slaughtered and sold to restaurants in South Korea.

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Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s...

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat
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The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!

Why we evolved to dream at night and what dreams mean

We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them?

Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government...

An extensive Washington Post investigation has revealed a very different reality—one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.
The dam at Carraizo Lake in Trujillo Alto, one of the reservoirs supplying drinking water to the San Juan area. Photo: Mtmelendez / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before...

Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.