“We have every capacity to deal with any action North Korea will take to protect this country and the interests of this country and our allies,” Hagel said. – North Korea nears ‘dangerous line,’ Hagel says SECRETARY HAGEL made it clear this week that President Obama is no different than any other American president in [...]
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Dennis Rodman Meets with Kim Jong Un, But State Dept. Won’t Debrief
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | Technology News | Celebrity News “There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary,” Ganyard said. [ABC News] IT’S BEYOND weird that Dennis Rodman is [...]
A Question From Glenn Greenwald: ‘How Can Anyone Still Believe That America Is the Greatest Country on Earth?’
About a year ago (March 7, 2012, to be exact), I was thinking about, and still consider accurate, “the American Exceptionalism myth.” Nothing has happened in the last (almost) year to change my mind. Greenwald’s essay – How Can Anyone Still Believe That America Is the Greatest Country on Earth? – has a related focus, [...]
News Desk: U.S., China and Japan Condemn North Korea Nuclear Test
North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing condemnation from around the world, including from its only major ally, China, which summoned the North Korean ambassador to protest. [Reuters] IT’S BEING described as having “greater explosive force” than the 2006 and 2009 tests, according to Reuters. China’s [...]
News Desk: North Korea Succeeds in Missile Launch that Sets Up Road to Long-Range Nuclear Capability
USING OLD Soviet technology, the North Koreans have updated the past and blasted into the future. “The success of the launch — which most analysts assume is a clandestine missile test — brings North Korea one step closer to demonstrating a viable and reliable long-range delivery vehicle for a nuclear warhead,” said Benjamin Habib, lecturer [...]
Buzzfeed: Chinese Website Hails Kim Jong-Un as The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive
THIS IS one of those classic cultural, political and media collisions that makes my day. From Zeke Miller: China’s Communist Party newspaper, People’s Daily, congratulates the North Korean leader on being named the sexiest man alive by the the satirical American publication. Seriously. Buzzfeed has a screen capture of the Chinese newspaper text. It doesn’t [...]
Romney’s Foreign Policy Problem Starts with ‘Czechoslovakia’
“Everybody slips,” Biden said, but added that Romney’s mistake sounds like “a mindset.” – TPM I WARNED YOU about this last year and it has begun. Team Romney tried to launch a prebuttal against V.P. Joe Biden’s foreign policy speech Thursday on a conference call, but it backfired. Mitt Romney’s foreign policy adviser, Ambassador Pierre [...]
LA Times Right to Publish Damning Afghan Photos
There is no question that publishing the photos of the Army 82nd Airborne posing with body parts of dead Afghanistan militants was the right thing to do. It’s predictable that SecDef Leon Panetta would cite blowback as a reason to refrain, but there is too much secrecy in what the U.S. does through our military [...]
Kim Jong Un Can’t Get His Rocket Up
**updated** The United States has canceled a proposed food aid deal with North Korea following over its attempt to launch a long-range rocket taking a satellite into orbit. Senior administration officials told NBC News the deal with Pyongyang is off after the rocket was fired. … “We are not going forward with an agreement to [...]
North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader’ is Dead
The North kept news of the death of its leader secret for roughly two days, perhaps a sign that the leadership was struggling to position itself for what many believe could be a particularly perilous transition. Kim Jong-il’s death came after a long illness, dating to 2008, that American intelligence agencies believed involved some form [...]
The Week of Hu, and SOTU Rewrite for Obama & Ryan
**UPDATED** Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements is the headline. Does anyone believe Pres. Obama or Rep. Paul Ryan will support it through policy? The austerity play is a wrap, the opposition player now cast. It remains to be seen who will speak for the American people. Pres. Obama didn’t do it on health care [...]
Wikileaks Diplo Docu Dump
Italy’s Foreign Minister Frattini called the Wikileaks release the “Sept. 11 of world diplomacy.” Republicans are jumping on the leak, as expected, because transparency scares the bejeezus out of the Right. Rep. Pete Hoekstra using hyperbole to say what allies might ask, “‘Can the United States be trusted? Can the United States keep a secret?’” [...]
New ‘No Labels’ Group Focuses on ‘Centrist Voters’
The story that’s all the talk today I’m not interested in. The Sarah Palin kerfuffle over her verbal slip on North Korea, which everyone is jumping on as some monumental gaffe. I just don’t hear that in the clip, so I’ll let others get all wee-wee’d up about it. Though I will note that John [...]
NEWS NOW: Levy Calls Israel North Korea, Another Blumenthal Quote, Bill for Blanche, and An Act of War
[...] When the prime minister doesn’t immediately apologize and invite Chomsky back to the country, we can be sad. When Israel closes its gates to anyone who doesn’t fall in line with our official positions, we are quickly becoming similar to North Korea. When right-wing parties increase their number of anti-democratic bills, and from all [...]
Netanyahu Cancels Plans to Attend Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit
–updated– “The nuclear security summit is supposed to be about dealing with the danger of nuclear terror,” the official said. “Israel is a part of that effort and has responded positively to President Obama’s invitation to the conference.” The official added: “But that said, in the last few days we have received reports about the [...]
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