The Status Quo Is The Real ‘Existential Threat’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The Status Quo Is The Real ‘Existential Threat’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

War is mass murder. Speaking out against it is more important than people’s emotional comfort. It’s worth disrupting family dinners over. It’s worth jeopardizing friendships over. History won’t look kindly on those who chose silent complicity over anti-imperialism. ~ I still regularly stop and gawk at the fact that a US imperial ally is committing…

The Fukushima Daiichi NPP and its Radioactive Water Problem

The Fukushima Daiichi NPP and its Radioactive Water Problem

From time to time, Korean media and environmentalists associated with them raise the question of an impending global environmental catastrophe, which will happen when the Japanese authorities dump thousands of tons of radioactive water into the sea after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The excitement is fueled by periodic news that…

Several Observations About The Russian-Brokered Armenian-Azerbaijani Ceasefire

Several Observations About The Russian-Brokered Armenian-Azerbaijani Ceasefire

It was a diplomatic coup for Russia to broker a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan since it restored Moscow’s relevance to the conflict, but for as positive of a development as this was, it’s uncertain whether it’ll last and will thus serve as a litmus test of exactly how much influence the Eurasian Great Power…

Thought Control American Style: The Social Justice Warriors Will Destroy Our Basic Freedoms

Thought Control American Style: The Social Justice Warriors Will Destroy Our Basic Freedoms

Once upon a time it was possible to rely on much of the mainstream media to report on developments more or less objectively, relegating opinion pieces to the editorial page. But that was a long time ago. I remember moving to Washington back in 1976 after many years of New York Times and International Herald…

Europe Marks Distance from Indo-Pacific Strategy

Europe Marks Distance from Indo-Pacific Strategy

The European Council special meeting in Brussels on 1st October had Turkey, Belarus, Russia and China on its agenda. The foreign-policy decisions of the summit — comprising the heads of state or government of all EU countries, the European Council President, and the European Commission President —show a moderate line, which broadly conforms to the…

The Limits of Chinese power

The Limits of Chinese power

Everything about US-China hinges on the result of the upcoming US presidential election. Trump 2.0 essentially would turbo-charge its bet on decoupling, aiming to squeeze “malign” China on a multiple Hybrid War front, undermine the Chinese trade surplus, co-opt large swathes of Asia, while always insisting on characterizing China as evil incarnate. Team Biden, even…