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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · Jul 8

There's a famous Korean film about this island just off of Nagasaki. UNESCO's decision is a travesty. Very important story. 👇

Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · Jul 7

This may be the Lee Jae Myung administration’s first big loss. The Korean govt tried to confront Japan’s refusal to address history issues through UNESCO but failed. Since the ballot was secret we cannot know which countries sided with Japan. 1/

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Korea loses Unesco vote to add Japan's Hashima Island to World Heritage Committee's agenda

Korea lost a Unesco vote to add Japan's Hashima Island issue to the agenda, failing to hold Japan accountable for its historic labor practices, thereby potentially straining bilateral relations amid o...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pay attention!!!

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · Jun 11

Israel bombed Gaza’s main internet line, causing a total communications blackout in the north. All internet and mobile services are down, cutting off journalists, aid workers, and civilians. The UN called it a critical failure and warned local teams can’t fix it without outside help.

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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · Jun 9

Excellent & insightful historical piece by Minju B ‪@haebangbae.bsky.social‬ on South Korea after the impeachment and its recent elections. "Korea Under Ceasefire: The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea."

Korea Under Ceasefire

February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

thenewinquiry.com

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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · Jun 9

"What Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law decree demonstrated was South Korea's intense political culture of militarization & violence, imposed & reinforced by US military occupation, that cannot be solved with a vote," writes Minju Bae (@haebangbae.bsky.social):

thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

Korea Under Ceasefire

February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

thenewinquiry.com

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Jon Reinsch @jonreinsch.bsky.social · Jun 4

White House official: “The US-ROK Alliance remains ironclad."
Translation: we will never allow your democracy to have any say whatsoever in your full cooperation with US military strategy.
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White House calls South Korea election ‘fair,’ expresses concern about Chinese influence | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

WASHINGTON--The White House said on Tuesday that South Korea’s election, which saw liberal party candidate Lee Jae-myung win the presidency, was fair, but it expressed concern about Chinese interferen...

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minju b @haebangbae.bsky.social · Jun 4

Le sigh

Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · Jun 3

"While South Korea had a free and fair election, the United States remains concerned and opposed to Chinese interference and influence in democracies around the world"

White House questioning new SK president’s legitimacy even before inauguration is something.

m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

(LEAD) White House affirms 'ironclad' alliance after Lee's win, voices concerns over Chinese influence | Yonhap News Agency

(ATTN: RECASTS headline; ADDS more details in paras 2-3)By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, June...

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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Trump White House doesn't know that South Korea exists. "Ironclad alliance"! 😂

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minju b @haebangbae.bsky.social · Jun 3

To those following Lee Jae-myung's election (lol), see my piece about the ongoing US occupation of Korea in @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

Korea Under Ceasefire

February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

thenewinquiry.com

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · May 27

Friday! Join Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social
for a discussion on global activism and global governance. Register here: tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL

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minju b @haebangbae.bsky.social · May 28

My piece about the ongoing US military occupation of Korea thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-... is here! @newinquiry.bsky.social

Korea Under Ceasefire

February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

thenewinquiry.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 8

"We will persist, with even greater resolve, and we will pass that strength on to our children and our children’s children – until Palestine is free. I eagerly await the day when I can tell our son the stories of his father’s bravery..."

To my husband, Mahmoud Khalil: I can’t wait to tell our son of his father’s bravery | Noor Abdalla

Your wrongful detention is testament to the fact that you have struck a nerve. They are trying to silence you, but they will fail

www.theguardian.com

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minju b @haebangbae.bsky.social · Apr 8

Or the dockworkers who have resisted the shipment of arms to Israel!

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Apr 7

salute to the real heroes of the global economy, the dockworkers putting in like quadruple overtime to get as much stuff as possible on a boat bound for the US before April 9th

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Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · Apr 3

South Korea 'at breaking point' ahead of tomorrow's ruling on President Yoon's impeachment.

Latest:

South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment

Barricades go up in Seoul as court prepares to rule on whether to uphold Yoon’s impeachment or restore his powers

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the second largest union in Korea with over 1 million members, says it will declare a general strike if Yoon’s impeachment is overturned.

www.chosun.com/national/lab...

민노총 “탄핵 기각땐 총파업... 공장 멈추고 거리 나와 싸우자”

민노총 탄핵 기각땐 총파업... 공장 멈추고 거리 나와 싸우자

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Apr 1

I honestly don't know how to handle the fact that the entire world is comfortable watching an entire people get ethnically cleansed live on the internet. No emergency meetings between governments, not even a conference call. Not a single country, other than Yemen, is willing to stop this.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 26

Rumeysa Ozturk is apparently being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana, owned by GEO Group, a private prison company that does much of the immigration prison contracting. Here's an image of what happened to GEO's stock price, nearly doubling from Nov 4 to Nov 11.

Hate is a for profit business.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Mar 25

My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

www.theguardian.com

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · Mar 24

People are rightly mocking the White House for accidentally inviting a journalist to a group chat about bombing Yemen but it feels like we should also probably be talking about how they're bombing Yemen.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Mar 25

"The suit hinges on a First Amendment principle that Americans have a right not only to express ideas but also to hear them"--this is about the suit that @knightcolumbia.org filed with @aaup.bsky.social and @mesa1966.bsky.social this morning.

Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters

The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.

www.nytimes.com

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Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · Mar 24

BREAKING: South Korea's Constitutional Court rejects PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment

Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · Mar 23

1/ Tomorrow morning, the Constitutional Court will rule on Prime Minister Han Duck-soo's impeachment, the first major judicial assessment of South Korea's December 3 martial law crisis. The 10 AM verdict has implications for the nation's ongoing constitutional crisis.

A thread:

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 22

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Mar 20

feels like a good day to meditate on scripture,

tweet from @hermit_hwarang american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of asians?!?!

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Anna Betts @annabetts.bsky.social · Mar 18

EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs.

Read here:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs

Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

www.theguardian.com

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · Mar 18

Breaking breaking breaking:

Israel attacks Gaza massively.

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