It’s an old cliché to say that technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but that all depends on how you use it. In the case of Information and Communications Technologies, and their out-of-control…
Category: Korea
[T]here is a big game happening in the region, with the U.S., India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other players that have been drawn in. The cost of winning in this game is the further strengthening of…
The year is 2045 and the world is celebrated the 100th anniversary of the United Nations. Of course, some things have changed with the passage of time. The decline of the United States and the…
The imperialists pretend to be “peace champions,” becoming more talkative about “peace” and stability” than ever before. But this is nothing but a crafty and sinister artifice to benumb the vigilance of the world people…
The U.S. and the south Korean puppet warmongers decided to stage the anti-DPRK joint military exercises, Key Resolve, across south Korea from the latter part of February despite the strong protest at home and abroad. …
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit….
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s economy and inflict severe pain on…
Militarism mixed with empty liberal rhetoric: Obama’s State of the Union Address in 2012 “If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 1998 “America remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs—and as long as I’m President, I intend to keep it that way.” President Barack Obama, State of the Union message, 2012 President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union message is an object lesson in contemporary U.S. class politics. Obama came into office three years ago on a wave of progressive hopes and even euphoria, very understandable given the bitter history of racism in this country and the fact that he was taking the place of his widely despised predecessor, George W. Bush. What the last three years as well as this speech have reaffirmed is that, regardless of the particular personality or characteristics of the person assuming the U.S. presidency, it is a job that comes with a specific job description: CEO of the imperialist ruling class.
“But it’s a defensive system!” Barak complained The title of this article may seem wrong at first; after all the RAFAELdeveloped Iron Dome is a mobile air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets and…
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) — The Disarmament and Peace Institute of the DPRK Foreign Ministry Friday released a report accusing the Lee Myung Bak regime of seriously disturbing the peace and security in Northeast Asia….