Everything the Western Mainstream Media Outlets Get Wrong When Covering Poor Countries

Everything the Western Mainstream Media Outlets Get Wrong When Covering Poor Countries

If you want to find out what’s happening in a poor country, be sure to add -tourists to your Google News search. “Canadian and Italian tourists feared kidnapped in Burkina Faso,” was the recent headline in the BBC, a day after clashes there claimed 46 lives. The BBC didn’t cover the clashes online, nor did…

Book Excerpt—On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War

Book Excerpt—On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War

North Korean Strategic Thought: Before turning to the evolution of Obama-era strategy toward North Korea, this chapter offers an essential primer on how North Korea thinks about coercion and its nuclear weapons—to the extent that we know—and the kinds of dangers that arise therefrom. Some of what we know about North Korean strategic thinking and…