Tim Shorrock
@timshorrock.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, musician, DC since 1982. Living with grief since losing my daughter Roxanne in March 2024. Writing on Korea, Japan, Cold War, Capitalism. Crazy Bob Dylan fan. Author of SPIES FOR HIRE. Now on Substack at EMPIRE BLUES.
Look what I just found in my local "little library"! Maybe I should send it to Mayor-elect Mamdani. After all, Trump doesn't read lol.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Look what I just found in my local "little library"! Maybe I should send it to Mayor-elect Mamdani. After all, Trump doesn't read lol.
Re the latest "scandal" involving Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair: She may not stop sleeping with her sources but she will soon be sleeping with the fishes, career-wise. Celebrity journalism is DEAD. We can only hope.
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Re the latest "scandal" involving Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair: She may not stop sleeping with her sources but she will soon be sleeping with the fishes, career-wise. Celebrity journalism is DEAD. We can only hope.
Wonderful photo from my oldest friend Alan G. in Japan.
"Hiking a couple days ago on a mountain north of Tokyo named Dai-bosatsu, great bodhisattva! Kerouac would love it…"
"Hiking a couple days ago on a mountain north of Tokyo named Dai-bosatsu, great bodhisattva! Kerouac would love it…"
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Wonderful photo from my oldest friend Alan G. in Japan.
"Hiking a couple days ago on a mountain north of Tokyo named Dai-bosatsu, great bodhisattva! Kerouac would love it…"
"Hiking a couple days ago on a mountain north of Tokyo named Dai-bosatsu, great bodhisattva! Kerouac would love it…"
Irony: there were people just like BARI WEISS saying shit like this about Vietnam. I remember in 1968 bringing the gruesome Ramparts photo issue on "the children of Vietnam" to high school in Japan and brainwashed American kids saying "fake" and "if we leave, there'll be a bloodbath." Sickening.👇
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Irony: there were people just like BARI WEISS saying shit like this about Vietnam. I remember in 1968 bringing the gruesome Ramparts photo issue on "the children of Vietnam" to high school in Japan and brainwashed American kids saying "fake" and "if we leave, there'll be a bloodbath." Sickening.👇
Love hearing Bob Dylan in his earliest recordings singing about joining a union and paying his dues. The American way. Or should be. 🇺🇸
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Love hearing Bob Dylan in his earliest recordings singing about joining a union and paying his dues. The American way. Or should be. 🇺🇸
Bluto is very mad.
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Bluto is very mad.
Just finished a lengthy story on the death of Neocon Man and how Cheney & Rumsfeld created the intel-based concept of netcentric warfare being carried out by Hegseth & Trump. Watch for my Substack story Wednesday morning. 🌺#Spies4Hire
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just finished a lengthy story on the death of Neocon Man and how Cheney & Rumsfeld created the intel-based concept of netcentric warfare being carried out by Hegseth & Trump. Watch for my Substack story Wednesday morning. 🌺#Spies4Hire
Today (Monday) too. Stunning color.
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today (Monday) too. Stunning color.
The trees are lovely in DC today.
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The trees are lovely in DC today.
“I’ve emerged from my experiences in Asia with an identity that puts me at odds with the dozens of American ‘experts’ on North Korea, China, and Japan, whose focus is not solidarity but American dominance.” Me on Substack, plus some books you should read. 🌺
substack.com/@timshorrock...
substack.com/@timshorrock...
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“I’ve emerged from my experiences in Asia with an identity that puts me at odds with the dozens of American ‘experts’ on North Korea, China, and Japan, whose focus is not solidarity but American dominance.” Me on Substack, plus some books you should read. 🌺
substack.com/@timshorrock...
substack.com/@timshorrock...
How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...
Once again @NBCNews leading the way on the regime change operation in Venezuela. She says once she's installed Trump will go after Cuba & Nicaragua and "we will end communism in Latin America once & for all." Trump's empire building and wars were not addressed at all today at the #NoKings rallies.
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Once again @NBCNews leading the way on the regime change operation in Venezuela. She says once she's installed Trump will go after Cuba & Nicaragua and "we will end communism in Latin America once & for all." Trump's empire building and wars were not addressed at all today at the #NoKings rallies.
Fuck off, NYT! "Silver platter"? Tens of thousands of men of my generation died in Vietnam and those who survived suffered for years after. Yeah, I've been marching for decades and fighting the power - for my late daughter, whose tragic death I won't blame on your generation's druggy recklessness.
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fuck off, NYT! "Silver platter"? Tens of thousands of men of my generation died in Vietnam and those who survived suffered for years after. Yeah, I've been marching for decades and fighting the power - for my late daughter, whose tragic death I won't blame on your generation's druggy recklessness.
DANGEROUS WATERS AHEAD.
October 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
DANGEROUS WATERS AHEAD.
Still stunning to see this. The permanent WAR state.
October 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Still stunning to see this. The permanent WAR state.
Harvest Moon Over Occupied DC, October 6.
October 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Harvest Moon Over Occupied DC, October 6.
Dodger fan, btw. Ohtani is the Babe Ruth of our time. Plus I love LA. My parents are buried there. We're all still around, my sisters and I.
October 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Dodger fan, btw. Ohtani is the Babe Ruth of our time. Plus I love LA. My parents are buried there. We're all still around, my sisters and I.
NYT plays down the fascism. Why isn't this a flashpoint for the USA? "Takaichi argues that Japanese atrocities during WWII have been overstated. She regularly visits Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial honoring Japan’s war dead & war criminals & a flashpoint for historical sensitivities in China & Korea."
October 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
NYT plays down the fascism. Why isn't this a flashpoint for the USA? "Takaichi argues that Japanese atrocities during WWII have been overstated. She regularly visits Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial honoring Japan’s war dead & war criminals & a flashpoint for historical sensitivities in China & Korea."
This is just fucking horrible. Medicare and the entire US government have been captured by fascists and imbeciles.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is just fucking horrible. Medicare and the entire US government have been captured by fascists and imbeciles.
Don't let anyone tell you that Trump and his Republicans aren't fucking with Medicare. That's a lie.
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Don't let anyone tell you that Trump and his Republicans aren't fucking with Medicare. That's a lie.
“War is just wrong." A friend from my youth in Japan sent me this note after she saw my article on the US firebombing of Tokyo. I wish the world had learned never to repeat the devastation of World War II, but the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza shows the exact opposite. substack.com/@timshorrock...
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“War is just wrong." A friend from my youth in Japan sent me this note after she saw my article on the US firebombing of Tokyo. I wish the world had learned never to repeat the devastation of World War II, but the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza shows the exact opposite. substack.com/@timshorrock...
THIS COUNTRY ISN'T SAFE ANYMORE.
September 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
THIS COUNTRY ISN'T SAFE ANYMORE.
It's Drunk Uncle (Sam) time at the UN. Almost as warm and forgiving as his Nazi speech at Charlie Kirk's funeral rally.
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's Drunk Uncle (Sam) time at the UN. Almost as warm and forgiving as his Nazi speech at Charlie Kirk's funeral rally.
First full day of fall, September 22, 2025, in Rock Creek Park DC. Blessings to all!
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
First full day of fall, September 22, 2025, in Rock Creek Park DC. Blessings to all!
Is this the same fake feminist who praised the late, disgraced Shinzo Abe, Japan's loudest denialist of the "comfort women" enslaved for sex by the Japanese Empire during WWII, as a "champion" of women's rights? Yes. Yes it is.
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Is this the same fake feminist who praised the late, disgraced Shinzo Abe, Japan's loudest denialist of the "comfort women" enslaved for sex by the Japanese Empire during WWII, as a "champion" of women's rights? Yes. Yes it is.