Geopolitical Outlook

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) recently published an official statement in response to comments made by former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who called Kim Jong Un a "tyrant" (among other things) in a speech. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. presidential hopeful repeated the usual lies and slanders made against North Korea in Western media. Biden is a long time advocate of war against the DPRK and has said many times in the past that he would support a unilateral strike against them. In other words, he wants to turn the country into a 'charcoal briquette' (as Stephen Gowans describes several times), again, essentially repeating a piece of Cold War history wherein which the country in 1953 was violently burned to the ground and had 20 percent of its population exterminated (1.55 million massacred; their population was about 9 million in 1950). It was indeed a genocide, but of course it would be dismissed as such by imperialist media.  One should als...

Ben Norton recently published an article on The Grayzone  titled " New NATO-approved US monument honors fascist Lithuanian Nazi collaborator as anti-Soviet hero " (which I highly recommend reading). In this article, Norton comments on the monument that was recently unveiled in Chicago, which honours Lithuanian Nazi collaborator and unabashed anti-Soviet war hawk, Adolfas Ramanauskas (a.k.a. "Vanagas"). The ceremony for the unveiling, held on May 4th, honours Ramanauskas as a "freedom fighter" and a "hero", as Norton writes, Lithuania’s state-funded Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has spent the past nearly three decades fueling Holocaust revisionism by portraying Nazi-collaborating Lithuanian fascists who murdered Jews in the Holocaust as anti-communist resistance heroes, while depicting Jewish anti-fascist partisans as war criminals; and by advancing the “double genocide” theory that falsely equates Soviet atrocities with Nazi cr...