Liberals, Conservatives Worry About Korean Peace Threat By Gregory Shupak

15 March 2018 — FAIR

WaPo: North Korea and South Korea snooker Trump

Washington Post‘s Max Boot (3/8/18): North and South Korea have “snookered the credulous American president into a high-profile summit that is likely to end in disaster one way or another.”

Commentators across the spectrum of acceptable establishment opinion are alarmed by the possibility of peace breaking out on the Korean peninsula.

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The World’s Darkest Hour: The British Empire As Criminal Enterprise by Romi Mahajan

15 March 2018 — CounterCurrents

The day before the 90th Academy Awards, a friend from the academia called me with a suggestion.  He was adamant.  “You know that the Churchill Movie will win some awards and you should have an article ready to publish before the announcement,” he admonished.  I agreed but failed to produce it in time. 

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Conservation as genocide in Kenya: REDD versus Indigenous rights By Martin Crook

15 March 2018 — Climate & Capitalism

Sengwer people attacked

Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation

Martin Crook is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Human Rights Consortium School of Advanced Study, University of London. His research interests include human rights and the environment and the political economy of genocide, ecocide.  Continue reading