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What is missing from the Western media's image of hostile North Korean behavior and blameless American victimhood is context. As is often the case, the media present events in an isolated fashion as if arising suddenly and without cause.
Tensions are escalating since North Korea’s launch of a satellite into orbit on December 12, 2012. Punishment for North Korea was swift in coming.
The U.S, as the current master of the capitalist-world, cannot allow a foreign market to overtake it in profitability, as the Chinese market currently seems capable of doing.
In yet another example of capitalism’s sickening disregard for human life, 111 workers died in an enormous factory fire that broke out Nov. 24 in Dhaka, the capitol of Bangladesh.
Recently in East Asia, political tension regarding the territorial sovereignty over Dokto Island (Takeshima in Japanese) and also the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku Islands in Japanese) has grown.
On Oct. 16, two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa. WORD condemns this act of violence and demands justice for the victim and all victims of rape by the U.S. military.
The war against the Afghan people—who never had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks—should never have started to begin with.
Almost 300 Pakistani workers were killed in fire at a clothing factory in Karachi on Sept. 12 shortly after a corporate-funded monitoring group certified that the factory met safety standards.
U.S. Marines have been sent to Libya and Yemen. U.S. drones dominate the air space of Libya.
Weather-related challenges have caused severe food shortages and famine in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since the mid-1990s — and Washington has tried to make the most out of it.
