Asia

Americans have Forgotten What We did to North Korea

2018-10-012018-10-01 White Nettle

But while today’s North Korean anti-American rhetoric is so often filled with obvious distortions and lies and thus easy to dismiss, this piece of anti-American rhetoric is chillingly real. That makes the cable jarring to read even beyond the sheer awful suffering it describes. It was a moment when the official North Korean characterization of America, one that we today rightly consider propagandistic nonsense, had a lot of truth to it […]

Asia

North Korea, an Aggressor? A Reality Check

2018-06-132018-06-13 White Nettle

US B-1B bombers flying from Guam recently carried out exercises in South Korea and “practiced attack capabilities by releasing inert weapons at the Pilsung Range.” In a further provocative (and illegal) move, US bombers were again reported to overfly North Korea, another of many such bullying, threatening actions, reportedly eleven just since May this year […]

Russia vs. America 2021-04-22
There is a doping double standard in American sports. The “big money” sports – football, baseball, and basketball – turn a blind eye to their athletes using performance-enhancing drugs while track – a “poor” sport – does not. This double standard is particularly harmful to track because strict testing procedures and subsequent doping scandals have […]
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Embracing the US-NATO War Criminals Who Destroyed Our Country 2021-04-22
The Serbian population doesn’t have a favorable opinion about their country’s relationship with NATO—the organization that waged a full scale war against them only seventeen years ago. In March of this year, the people’s voices were the loudest, demanding a referendum about NATO membership […]
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Did the Cold War Ever Really End? 2021-04-22
The official end of the Cold War era in 1989 brought during the first coming years a kind of international optimism that the idea of the „end of history“ really could be realized as it was a belief in no reason for the geopolitical struggles between the most powerful states […]
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Debunking the Myths and Propaganda behind “D-Day”. 2021-04-21
Despite the popular belief that because of D-Day, the US and the western allies won WW2 in Europe, the truth is that WW2 had already been won in Europe by Soviet Russia when it defeated the German army in the eastern front […]
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Korea: An Alternative History 2021-04-20
When the second of the twentieth century’s two great wars was over, Korea was free of outside domination. Japan had been defeated and awaited its fate. Meanwhile, the Korean people began to take back their country [...]
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