Articles by David Mcneill
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Tooling Up for War: Can Japan Benefit from Lifting the Arms Export Ban?
David Mcneill - The Japan Times,
7 Jul 2014
28 Jun 2014 – Abe’s decision to end the nation’s four-decade ban on selling weapons in April reflected an intention to take a hard-nosed approach that builds military and technical alliances to counterbalance China’s rise. But what does it all mean? And, more importantly, who is expected to benefit from the deal?
→ read full articleJapan Forced to Halt Whaling in Antarctic As Activists Claim Victory
David McNeill in Tokyo – The Independent,
21 Feb 2011
The US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has been stalking the whaling fleet with their own vessels, claimed that the Japanese ships had managed to harpoon just 30 whales, a fraction of their 945 target. “We’ve shut them down basically,” Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson told The Independent by satellite from aboard the MY Steve Irwin. “It’s silly to say they’ve suspended the hunt. We suspended them.”
→ read full articleRed Shirt vs. Yellow Shirt: Thailand’s Political Struggle
David McNeill in Lamphun – The Independent,
23 Aug 2010
The supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are massing again.
→ read full articleMAN WHO DEFIED BOTH A-BOMBS DIES AGED 93
David McNeill in Tokyo,
9 Jan 2010
The only man to experience nuclear bombardment twice and live to tell the tale became an eloquent voice for peace.Reporters never knew whether to call Tsutomu Yamaguchi the luckiest or unluckiest man alive. In 1945, the Nagasaki native was exposed to both nuclear blasts that incinerated his home city and Hiroshima. Last year the Japanese […]
→ read full articleA REVOLUTIONARY REWORKING FOR MARX’S ‘KAPITAL’
David McNeill in Tokyo,
20 Nov 2008
Treatise on Capitalism To Be Turned Into Manga Comic 140 Years After Publication Karl Marx, the German revolutionary who predicted that capitalism would crumble under the weight of its own contradictions, is making a comeback – in the form of a comic. More than 140 years after Marx’s Das Kapital was released on an initially […]
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