Why indeed? But it’s not just Fred, though I think Freddie was first off the mark with “It’s time to worry about war with North Korea again.” (Dec, 17), but his shrill concerns have been ably amplified by none other than the totally unbiased New York Times “U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test…
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Very clever, those North Koreans? Well not really
Joel S. Wit is a senior fellow at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and founded the website 38North. I am neither of those things, but I found his recent opinion piece in the New York Times, “How ‘Crazy’ Are the North Koreans?”, thoroughly off-putting. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but I take my…
Does North Korea have a hydrogen bomb?
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past several years pooh-poohing the dire warnings that periodically emerge from the mouths of American big-shots regarding the peril posed by North Korea, so that state’s claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb doesn’t come as a pleasant surprise. If North Korea in fact doesn’t have a…
Danger! Danger! Truth Overload! Israeli General calls Iran “very rational”! AP reveals dreaded North Korean missiles are fakes!
It’s true! Leon “the North Koreans are coming!” Panetta and the entire AIPAC nation must be having heart attacks at this news. I’ll let Jodi Rudoren at the NYT handle the first one: “The Israeli military chief [the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz*] described the Iranian government as…
Pablo Picasso salutes the heroic workers of North Korea in their struggle to smash the forces of American Imperialism!
Over at Slate, Christopher Benfey has a nice slide show on an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute—located “in the Berkshires”—according to Chris, examining the impact of Edgar Degas on the illimitable and irrepressible Pablo Picasso. Among the works featured is the one shown here, Nude Wringing Her Hair (1952). Although clearly riffing on Degas’…
“Don’t worry about the Iranians,” says Shay Khatiri. “They’re a bunch of sissies!”
Why should we bomb the Iranians? Hell, why shouldn’t we? That’s what Shay Khatiri says, over at the Bulwark . Sure, “the state of Iran’s nuclear program is unclear.” (Translation: we don’t even know if they’re thinking about building a bomb.) But, hey, you can’t be too careful. There’s sure to be something we can…
War! What is it good for? Circulation!
Oh, yeah. There is nothing like a war—in particular, a good guys versus bad guys war—to pump up the circulation, to attract eyeballs—to cable talk shows, network news (OK, I haven’t actually seen one since, well, 2001, but I’m assured they still exist), websites, podcasts, videocasts, etc., etc. etc. I’m told they even have the…
Reports of the neocons’ demise have been greatly exaggerated
Weren’t the neocons terrible? Well, they still are, and they’re still running things at both Bloomberg and the New York Times, and they still think it’s “smart” to lie to their readers. Eagle-eyed substacker Daniel Larison brings the sad but unsurprising news on both. First the Bloomberg folks have the “great” idea that President Biden…
Shorter Joe Biden: I cans so be as stupid as Donald Trump! Even stupider!
Politico has the bad news: “Biden goes ‘full steam ahead’ on Trump’s nuclear expansion despite campaign rhetoric”. An article by Lara Seligman, Bryan Bender, and Connor O’Brien quotes Biden as telling the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a speech given just before the close of the Obama administration in January 2017, the following: If…
Biden’s foreign policy is sliding into a Blobby bog
Sad, but unsurprising, not to mention scary as shit: Uncle Joe is letting the military intellectual complex put both hands on the wheel when it comes to the U.S. and the outside world. Consider the following: – In a recent meeting with Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi in Alaska, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony…