Empire Blues with Tim Shorrock

Dick Cheney and the Origins of Pete Hegseth's Dangerous Strategy of Assassination Warfare

How the former Vice President and Secretary of Defense cleared the way for "net-centric warfare" and the murderous air strikes carried out today by…

Nov 5 • 

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October 2025

DMZ EMPIRE: The hidden history of US intervention in Japan and South Korea

In this preface to my book-in-progress, now being circulated in proposal form to agents and publishers, I explain its origins in the Gwangju Uprising…

Oct 21 • 

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September 2025

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

The South Korean government negotiated with the Trump administration over the ICE raid not only for its own citizens but for its Asian neighbors as…

Sep 19

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My interview with BBC about Trump's ICE raid on the Hyundai/LG plant in Georgia

I spoke to the Beeb's Business Report this morning about the South Korean response to the raid and the anger ICE has generated. They wanted to emphasize…

Sep 12 • 

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Korean labor confederation: Trump's ICE raid is "nothing short of gangster behavior."

The outrage mirrors the sentiments of the ROK government, its corporate sector, and ordinary citizens about the brutal arrests of over 400 Korean…

Sep 8 • 

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Another Questionable North Korea Intelligence Blockbuster from the New York Times

Today's story on a failed 2019 SEAL Team 6 raid to plant listening devices near Kim Jong Un's Wonsan home has John Bolton written all over it.

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

Lee's clever obsequience, Trump's utter stupidity set tone for US-ROK Summit

The newly elected President of South Korea managed to win over the martial law President with flattery, smiles, and an unexpected celebration of his…

Aug 27 • 

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A Liberation Song for Roxanne, 1988-2024

Listen now (8 mins) | "Chimes of Freedom," with Tim Shorrock on voice and guitar accompanied by Michelle Shocked on mandolin

Aug 20 • 

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Nagasaki and the US Division of Korea

Truman's plutonium bomb may have been the first shot of the Cold War. 24 hours after it destroyed Nagasaki, the United States declared it would divide…

Aug 7 • 

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From 1944 through the very last day of World War II, the US Air Force turned Japan into an inferno

The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the final horror of the war that had already ended for nearly all Japanese. By then, 67 other cities…

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

In right-wing "exclusive," Trump allies warn Seoul over "unfair treatment" of disgraced president Yoon Suk-yeol

It may be the MAGA right making the warning, but its repellent views are shared by the liberal imperialists from the Biden administration. Korean War…

Jul 29 • 

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Korea's Donghak Peasant Rebellion of 1894 and the Rise of Japan's Empire

Contrary to the views of some American analysts, many Korean despise Japan for its cruel history on the peninsula, not simply because Japanese leaders…

Jul 25 • 

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