20 Sep, 2017
The bully showed up at the wrong playground – Trump’s misguided address at the United Nations
““It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience,” Swedish foreign Minister Margot Wallström expressed about...
20 Sep, 2017
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN
“Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as “depraved” before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the...
19 Sep, 2017
A Negotiated Curbing of North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities Is Good, But Not Good Enough
“The North Korean government’s progress toward developing a long-range nuclear weapons capability, accompanied by bellicose pronouncements, has been alarming enough…”...
18 Sep, 2017
Dealing with North Korean Missiles
“Small powers often have leverage well above their size and capabilities. North Korea is the example par excellence today: It...
17 Sep, 2017
Help Wanted: Experienced Diplomats to Resolve Worst Nuclear Crisis in 55 Years, Rookie Presidents and Secretaries of State Need Not Apply
“With North Korea’s alarming escalation of its nuclear weapons and missile programs, humanity faces our most dire nuclear situation since...
10 Sep, 2017
Common Sense and North Korea
“The phrase “common sense” implies practical and prudent good judgment, with a further implication that the obviousness of common sense...
5 Sep, 2017
Sixth grade recess
“How close are we today to nuclear war between the United States and North Korea? As close as somebody in...
20 Aug, 2017
“We burned down every town in North Korea”
““We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way...
16 Aug, 2017
Why Does North Korea Hate Us?
““The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless . . .” And so we return to the Korean War, when North...
11 Aug, 2017
A Proposal to Move from Threats to Talks with North Korea
“What might it take to create a breakthrough to resumption of US-North Korea talks? The experiences of prior diplomacy suggest...
10 Aug, 2017
Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
“What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with each other…”...
9 Aug, 2017
Terrorism for profit
“Donald Trump stands cluelessly at the edge of history, exemplifying everything wrong with the past, oh, 10,000 years or so…”...
4 Jul, 2017
APB: The US-China-North Korea Tangle
“It’s not too early to sound alarm bells about the downward turn in US-China relations. Trump’s evident frustration with China...
21 Jun, 2017
When the detainee is American . . .
“The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders….” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Truthout, Counterpunch, Common Dreams,...
27 Apr, 2017
A public plan for peace
“The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public...