Articles by Signs of the Times
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How the US Empire Was Made in North Korea
Niall Bradley | Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
I recently read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley, a breathtaking panorama of US and Chinese trajectories from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century to the birth of ‘Communist’ China and ‘Pax Americana’ a hundred years later. This naturally encompassed US involvement in Korea, so in this article I’d like to share some historical context that is either incomplete or missing from summaries of US-Korean relations I’ve seen online so far.
→ read full articleJohn McAfee on Russian Hacking Allegations: “If It Looks Like the Russians Did It, Then I Can Guarantee You It Was Not the Russians”
Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
McAfee argues that the report is a “fallacy,” explaining that hackers can fake their location, their language, and any markers that could lead back to them. Any hacker who had the skills to hack into the DNC would also be able to hide their tracks, he said. “If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it, I would use Russian language within the code, I would use Russian techniques of breaking into the organization.”
→ read full articleRogue US Army Unit Leader Saw Afghans as ‘Savages’
Ellis Conklin, AFP – Signs of the Times,
7 Nov 2011
The ringleader of a rogue US army unit accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport treated the locals like “savages,” a court martial heard. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs also allegedly brandished fingers cut off dead bodies in a failed attempt to silence members of his team. The 26-year-old faces life in prison if convicted on charges including three counts of premeditated murder, in a scandal that has threatened Abu Ghraib-style embarrassment for the US military.
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