On September 3 of last year, reports of a small earthquake in North Korea spread throughout the news. This was widely believed to be the result of a successful nuclear weapons test.
Read MoreWhat is Blackness? Are all Black people the same? In an age when #BlackLivesMatter trends, Black athletes lose their jobs standing up against Black deaths, and the U.S. President refers to prominent Black people as “low-class” and “uneducated,”
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From January to May of 2018, about 550 Yemenis, mostly single men, arrived on Korea’s largest island through a visa waiver program for tourists.
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I want to backtrack a bit and try to understand the current period by contextualizing it within the Aug. 4th assassination attempt on President Maduro and the string of electoral victories by the Chavista government…
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Much of the international media coverage of Venezuela’s migration and recent revaluation of the currency paint it as a humanitarian disaster. Not only is this coverage one-sided, stripped…
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We seldom hear about modern Africa from an African perspective. As part of his second of three parts in “Understanding Africa,” a Kenyan organizer writes about how a changing global order after World War II and African people’s collaboration and resistance shaped modern Africa.
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The 5 Star Movement has formed a populist coalition government with the right-wing populist party the League. Ciro Brescia, a self-professed Communist and a founding member of the 5 Star Movement (M5S), explains the contradictions and potential of the M5S in changing Italy, by exploring the political context of its birth and those that compose its ranks.
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Colombia’s significance in South America as the United States’ closest military and political ally, the nature of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), which had waged an over 60 year guerilla, the possibility of peace transforming Colombia - we discuss it all with Professor Medofilo Medina.
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On April 27, 2018, Chairman Kim Jong-un crossed the military demarcation line to be greeted by President Moon Jae-in in the South Korean side of Panmunjom.
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Since Korea’s Candlelight Revolution of 2016, the changes on the peninsula seem to herald a spring. Amid high hopes that the country, divided for over 70 years…
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Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was President of Brazil for two consecutive terms. During his administration, 29 million people were lifted from poverty…
Read MoreWith the South-North Korea summit in April and the upcoming North and US summit in June, the winds of peace are blowing over the Korean peninsula. There is even talk of “complete denuclearization” and “ending the war by the end of this year”. However, in Soseongri, a southern city in Seongju where the Terminal High Altitude…
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In Korea, dictators and corrupt presidents such as Rhee Synghman, Chun Doo-hwan and Park Geun-hye have been brought down by people’s power. And while people’s anger towards these…
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On Dec. 16, the International Strategy Center invited our Advisor Director of Energy Justice Actions Lee Heon-seok to present on “Singori Nuclear Reactors 5 and 6's Public Consultation and the Tasks Ahead.”
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The following analyzes the current situation in Venezuela within the global struggle, effort and creation of a world beyond capitalism. It is based on research and informed by an interview with…
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On October 3, 2014, Jeong Eun Hwang and Dae-Han Song of the International Strategy Center met with Kyung-Seok Park, the president of Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination and principal of Nodeul Disabled People’s Night School.
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Alasita means “buy me” in the language of the Aymara, the biggest indigenous tribe in Bolivia. Alasita was originally celebrated by farmers to pray to Ekeko. They would give him miniature presents to wish for plentiful crops in the year ahead.
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I delved into the region with great curiosity. As I proceeded, I began to understand that the history of Latin America can be used as a good reference that reveals various solutions and how to learn even…
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Nearly three months after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, people on the left are still debating how and why he won, what will happen next, and how we can most effectively move forward at this uncertain and dangerous moment.
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Research reveals that investors have launched 50 lawsuits at secret international arbitration tribunals against governments negotiating the RCEP agreement for at least $31 billion US dollars. If signed, the RCEP would establish such international tribunals opening countries to these lawsuits.
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