Articles by The Asia-Pacific Journal
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The San Francisco System: Past, Present, Future in U.S.-Japan-China Relations
John W. Dower – The Asia-Pacific Journal,
3 Mar 2014
The essay was written for a general audience rather than for specialists, with particular concern for calling attention to (1) the interwoven nature of contentious current issues, and (2) their historical genesis in the early years of the cold war, and in some cases earlier. No attempt has been made to incorporate developments since early 2013.
→ read full articleSystemic Destabilization in Recent American History1
Peter Dale Scott – The Asia-Pacific Journal,
1 Oct 2012
Among the false flag structural deep events I wish to consider today are: 1) The John F. Kennedy assassination of 1963, or 11/22; 2) The Robert Kennedy assassination of 1968; 3) The 1993 first World Trade Center bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City; 4) 9/11 and the subsequent false flag anthrax attacks of 2001, which led to the imposition of Continuity of Government (COG) measures, the Patriot Act, and the proclamation, on September 14, 2001, of a State of Emergency which remains in effect.
→ read full articleWhy Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars
Prof. Peter Dale Scott – The Asia-Pacific Journal,
3 Sep 2012
The most urgent political challenge to the world today is how to prevent the so-called “pax Americana” from progressively degenerating, like the 19th-century so-called “pax Britannica” before it, into major global warfare. I say “so-called,” because each “pax,” in its final stages, became less and less peaceful, less and less orderly, more and more a naked imposition of belligerent competitive power based on inequality.
→ read full articleLaunching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
The Asia-Pacific Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2012
Throughout this essay we have seen two different and indeed antithetical levels of U.S. foreign policy at work. On the surface level of public diplomacy we see a commitment to international law and the peaceful resolution of differences. On a deeper level, represented by a long-time Saudi connection and covert arrangements to control international oil, we see the toleration and indeed protection of terrorists in fulfillment of both Saudi and American secret goals.
→ read full articleScience with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry after Chernobyl and Fukushima
Gayle Greene – The Asia-Pacific Journal,
9 Jan 2012
Chernobyl released hundreds of times the radioactivity of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined, contaminating more than 40% of Europe and the entire Northern Hemisphere. But along came the nuclear lobby to breathe new life into the industry, passing off as “clean” this energy source that polluted half the globe. The “fresh look at nuclear”—in the words of a New York Times makeover piece (May 13, 2006)—paved the way to a “nuclear Renaissance” in the United States that Fukushima has by no means brought to a halt.
→ read full articleWhat Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
Prof. Matthew Penney & Prof. Mark Selden – The Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus,
30 May 2011
On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster had reached level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Before Fukushima, the only level 7 case was the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, whose 25th anniversary was marked on April 26. Following the upgrade to level 7, Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office released a statement comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl, arguing that apart from children who contracted thyroid cancer from drinking contaminated milk, there have been no health effects among ordinary citizens as a result of Chernobyl radiation. Is this really the case? Hardly.
→ read full articleFukushima Residents Seek Answers amid Mixed Signals from Media, TEPCO and Government
Makiko Segawa in Fukushima - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus,
25 Apr 2011
Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone
→ read full articleKyrgyzstan, the U.S. and the Global Drug Problem: Deep Forces and the Syndrome of Coups, Drugs, and Terror
Peter Dale Scott – The Asia-Pacific Journal,
19 Jul 2010
Will the current crisis in Kyrgyzstan lead to greater instability, and perhaps an expansion of the current conflict in Central Asia? There are good reasons to be concerned. Deep forces, not adequately understood, are at work there; and these forces have repeatedly led to major warfare in the past.
→ read full articleTHE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 1)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
An analysis of Gandhi’s thought on nonviolence and its relevance.Prologue In 1931, on his way to the London Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a Reuters correspondent what his program was. He responded by writing out a brief, vivid sketch of "the India of my dreams". Such an India, he said, would be […]
→ read full articleTHE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 2)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
Gandhi and the Art of the Possible I wrote above that it is strange that while plans for ideal polities such as those of More, Morris, and others are well known and still in print in many editions, Gandhi’s proposal is out of print and virtually unknown outside of India. There are many possible reasons […]
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