Emanuel Pastreich

The consulting firms that work for private equity and individual billionaire families, and then feed their demands to private and national intelligence agencies in Washington, Jerusalem, and around the world (as well as other consulting and lobbying entities) have intentionally created hundreds of mutually contradictory narratives explaining Covid 19 (of both the mainstream and conspiracy …

John Spritzler declared recently, “The Left is not weak; The left is wrong” This truism struck a chord for me. I have felt for a long time that the left, or should we say the opposition to the concentration of capitalism and rule by banks and IT firms, is not successful and that is NOT …

In the midst of a massive drive to pump up the entire military and intelligence budget using drones and robots, AI and surveillance systems, that can be used against our own citizens as easily as against imagined enemies, we are confronted with a confusing article from Defense One. The article proposes that that the merger …

The speech by Trump and Hegseth to a group of hundreds of military officers at Quantico Base marked the catastrophic collapse of the chain of command

China has a long tradition of peaceful coexistance and offers an alternative to the imperialist tradition of extraction and military domination.

​The unprecedented concentration of wealth in the hands of a group of oligarchs pushes the United States toward a military economy.

Emanuel Pastreich directs the Asia Institute in Seoul, South Korea. Articles by this author

Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The United States is drawn to war on every front, like a moth to a candle. It does not matter that Americans are sick of foreign wars stretching back 25 years in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and now Venezuela, wars that have bankrupted the nation. It has no effect that the United States lacks the economic, technological, and manufacturing capacity necessary to sustain a conventional war. Nor would the United States likely win an unconventional war employing nano-technology, bio-technology, and information warfare.

Thirty-one of the international organizations that the United States is suddenly leaving are affiliated with, or a part of, the United Nations.

The Trump administration has released its own bombshell about COVID-19 which turns out to be only refried conspiracy theories and which avoids discussion of the role of the US military, multinational banks and pharmaceutical firms, DARPA, Israel, and the World Economic Forum. The statement DOES address many realities of the totalitarian rule and anti-scientific policies …