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A devastating double murder is discovered in Seminole County, Florida. Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, a young, illegal immigrant, is quickly arrested and convicted of the crime in what appears to be a clear-cut case… but does the evidence support this, or could it have simply been a rush to judgment that led to an innocent man’s life on death row? Join us as we venture down this true crime story of murder, deceit, and injustice on the first season of Secrets, Lies & Alibis. Check out our website ...
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Join Damon Gilbert as he shares his insights of todays wacky world with an "average joe" eye.
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Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that …
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Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how se…
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Where's Joe Biden? Schrödinger's Cat Thought Experiment Playing Out In DC.
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You can't make this shit up. We have a President who is Schrödinger's cat. Is he alive or is he dead? Depends on who you ask. His fate is linked to a random event that may (or may not) occur.
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Sleepy Joe Folds Like An Aluminum Lawn Chair
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It is official. Demented Joe passes the torch to Cacklin Kamala and so the Lunatic Left has conceded the 2024 Presidential election. The Democrat Party is exploding before your very eyes. Get your popcorn. It is going to be great.
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They think we are idiots. You are seeing a coverup taking place before your very eyes. In 1963 evil forces were able to pull a fast one. We as a nation were very naive. Today everyone has a high quality camera and recording device and independent journalists are all of us. It is harder to pull off an assassination today. Too many eyes on the crime.…
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The man is hard a coffin nail.
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Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to increased attention to the concept of pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks any historical grounding in the thought of influential twentieth-century pan-Asianists. In Pan-Asianism and t…
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Youngna Kim, "Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes" (Brill, 2024)
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In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide an overview of the peninsula’s contemporary art scene. Korean artists have become increasingly active at an international level, with many being invited for residencies and exhibitions all over the world. Nonetheless, for various reasons, the genera…
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Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilisation: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy (University of Michigan Press, 2024) by Dr. Joan E. Cho takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democra…
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South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
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How do election campaigns in South Korea look like? Why have satellite parties become an important instrument of power politics? What do the election results mean for the Yoon government’s ability to implement its policy agenda? In April 2024, South Koreans went to the polls to elect a new parliament but many regarded the elections also as a refere…
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Faux Ivy League Protests-Gavin Is Chomping At The Bit--Bingo Was His Name O, Christi Noem A/K/A Murderer.
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Clueless young elites are chanting for the destruction of the United States and no one bats an eye. Lets discuss how this is strategic and planned. Nothing happens by accident. How about we deport everyone who is here on a visa that is caught protesting the very sponsor of their free ride? Where is Gavin and when is he going to make his move? Barry…
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Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024)
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Histories of North Korea typically focus on one man — Kim Il Sung — and one narrative — his grand rise to absolute power. Andre Schmid’s new book, North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965 (University of California Press, 2024), tells a much more complex and richly textured story. Moving away from the…
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Eclipse Insanity-Black Swan Events-Election 2024
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Well, we are still here. Eclipse be damned. The MSM tried desperately to make us all believe that the end was near. I even heard someone on "The View" blame the eclipse on climate change. You can’t make this shite up. I am on the road and making a podcast from the seat of an automobile…. An internal combustion driven vehicle. I know, I am so 20th c…
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SunAh M. Laybourn, "Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the largest population of adult transnational adoptees in the United States. Over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted into primarily white US families since the 1950s, and despite being raised as US citiz…
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I Am From An Alternate Universe--Stop The Killing Around The World--Trump Will Pick A VP And Here Is My Advice
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What is going on? Am I missing something? Why do I feel I am living in a dream? Do you ever ask yourself these questions? Because I do every single day. I want to know why people do not do what is right. Why do the powers that be seem to do the exact opposite of what you and I would do? Is it all due to the corruption that exists in the world today…
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David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions. It traces especially how the musical has been indigenized in South Korea and Germany, the commercial centers for Broadway musicals in East Asia and contine…
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Trump Wins Missouri Cacaus—Supreme Court Gets One Right—War In Ukraine—State of the Union
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Attending my first caucus in Missouri was interesting and it gave me insight into why nothing can get done in Congress. No one listens. No one understands. But all things aside Trump triumphant with a 268-12 vote. Haley loses again. Supreme Court in a 9-0 decision overrules the Colorado Supreme Court and Trump will be on the ballot in Colorado. On …
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U. S. Taxpayers Are Being Forced To Fund Illegal Immigration Crisis--McConnell Stepping Down--Biden Goes Toe To Toe With Trump In Texas
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If you ever wondered if your country will screw you over at the first opportunity then look no further than this administrations handling of the Southern Border crisis. Not only is their inaction affecting every aspect of American life through welfare, crime, housing, education, and national debt, it is also being financed with our own taxes dollar…
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Ronna McDaniel Resigns—Lord of "Satan" Jacob Rothschild Passes—Trump Wins Big In South Carolina
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Yes, Nikki Haley loves losing. She lost big time despite convincing large numbers of Dems to vote for her in South Carolina. When you outspend your opponent 30 to 1 and lose by double digits you might want to rethink your immediate plans. But her assignment is to hurt Trump at all costs. Will the American public fall for this? Thirty percent will f…
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Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for North Korea is to say that North Koreans are not part of the human community.” In her new book, Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (Columbia University Press, 20…
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Nikki Haley Doubles Down On Losing—$355 Million Shakedown—WWIII Highlights
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Nikki can’t say no. I bet she was fun in high school. How many times must you be humiliated before you throw in the towel? Yet, the money keeps rolling in and she keeps trying to convince us that she has a chance. Trump gets hit with a $355 million fine and apparently NYC DA thinks that’s a win for NY? Ross Perot said it best. “You will hear the su…
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America Is FUBAR! Judge Finds Trump Liable For $355 Million In Damages.
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Name a competent leader either foreign or domestic. I dare you. We are being led by psychopaths, maniacs and freaks. The DOJ is a joke. The courts have been weaponized and we have a massive two tiered justice system. You and I no longer matter to the elite. We are a nuisance and insignificant. World War 3 has already begun but the vast majority are…
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Did Putin Sanction Navalny's 'Killing?' Could This Happen In America?
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Killing a political enemy is common in history. But is that what Putin actually did? If so, is the West contemplating the demise of Donald J. Trump? The circumstances are remarkably similar. Would the Deep State kill an opponent? I say yes.
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Briefing 306-The Week In Review—Putin/Carlson—Hur Report, Ouch
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What can I say? Putin came across as a knowledgeable, sane, competent, leader unlike our own. Carlson had his hand full but did a good job. Obama DOJ calls Joey B. an elderly, well meaning man who has a bad memory. No charges.
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Briefing 305-The Knives Come Out For Tucker—Trump Makes A Mistake—Is America Rome In The Last Days?
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Looking forward to the interview with our arch enemy, the King of Bad, the Grand Exaluted Almighty Omnipotent Stomper, Vlad (the Impaler) Putin. Geez, you would swear Tucker was interviewing Castro. Oh, I forgot those interviews are saved for the Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose’s of the world. Are we in the end times of our empire? Are we going the w…
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Briefing 304-Tucker Carlson Becomes A Superstar—Nikki Haley Can’t Beat “None Of The Above”—Did King Chuck Croak?
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While we will probably learn nothing new from the Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin this move makes Tucker Carlson bigger than Joe Rogan. Nikki Haley fails miserably and will continue on to fail more. Is King Chuck dead? If he were do you think we would know immediately? I doubt it.
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All the news that is news for last week. Biden wins South Carolina Democrat Primary-Sees Abysmal 4% Turnout-The Southern Border is wide open but our Squatter In Chief says give me more money and do what I say and wal-lah everything will be great. Apparently, rather than upholding the Constitution our armed service members are fighting for this "adm…
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Briefing 302-Mass Media Tricks And Lies-Liberal Tears And Fears Of Trumps Lead-How Fear Will Effect The 2024 Election
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Print media is dead folks. I will give you at least two examples of why it is a leaf dying on the vine. The model of a central delivery system for information has gone the way of the spittoon and buggy whip. WARNING: Shadow Government SG will use fear to control the masses. They have no choice. Trump is running away with polling for the 2024 electi…
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Briefing 301-Taylor Swift Con Job-Twitter Hell Hole-Forgotten Lahaina Maui and Palestine OH
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No one understands the Taylor Swift con job and what it reveals about the American public. You are being conned by a huge money making machine and apparently most are fine with that. If you believe that deep down inside people are “good” at their core then spend a few minutes Twitter/X and you will reassess that belief system quickly. The world is …
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Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Dr. Andy Jackson’s The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) examines an unexplored area of South Korean cinema history – the 1985-1997 growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia. This moment of heightened interest in art film altered how many Koreans conceptualis…
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Briefing 300-Week In Review-Last Weeks News Today
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From the Texas border crisis and a possible civil war, an up coming regional conflict (World War) in the Middle East, to the FBI being run by entitled, lazy, children and the stupidity and embarrassment of our Squatter in Chief. This week’s news is beyond belief. Come have a listen.
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Briefing 299-Donald J. Trump Is The Chemotherapy To The Third Stage Cancer America Has
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Sometimes the medicine is hard to swallow. But the medicine is the cure. Donald Trump is that medicine. He is the chemo that is actually poison, but could save your live. However, that medicine must be dosed out at a rate that is tolerable to the body. My advice for Big Don is to tone the rhetoric down a bit, don’t appear to be a petulant child and…
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Briefing 298-New Hampshire Primary Ass Kicking-Donald Trump’s VP Choices-Social Media Makes Everyone Hate Themselves
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Nikki Haley got her butt handed to her tonight and any sane person would leave the battlefield with some dignity. But not the Wicked Witch of the East. No, she is going to stay in and see if she can drive a stake through the heart of her political career. Good luck with that honey.
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From military attacks in the Red Sea to furries being forced to ride home with parents or face Animal Control. This week was wild. We will discuss the New Hampshire primary and the death rattles of the Haley and DeSantis campaigns as well as our record production of domestic oil production that the Biden administration would rather you did no know …
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Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within famil…
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Briefing 296-Homelessness Is Coming To A Street Near You-Reparations Are A Hard No For Me And Sane Americans-Biden Administration Sleeps While The World Explodes
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I am as empathetic as the next guy but I do believe there should be limits. When the so called homeless are wearing better shoes, coats, and have better cell phones than the working class something is wrong. Why is the taxpayer being asked to house, feed, educate, and provide health care to mentally ill, drug addicted, non citizens. I know that I a…
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Briefing 295-Ev’s Are The Scam Of The Century-Disease X Is The Talk Of The Town In Davos, Switzerland-Has Trump Picked His Running Mate?
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Ev’s are a scam the likes you have never seen. Completely useless to the average American but yet our illustrious leaders feel you are not smart enough to make your own decisions and they are wiser. So presto chango….2035, no new ICE (internal combustion engines). They want to control you They want you dead folks. You are a nuisance. A liability. T…
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Briefing 294-Iowa Caucus Ass Kicking And The Salty Tears That Followed.
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When your team is up by 50 and it is still the first quarter you can rest assured that your team is going to win. Is it possible that people in the MSM have never played sports? Why this belly aching that the Iowa Caucus was called in the first hour of voting? Because it was an historic “ass kicking” that’s why. Trump emerges victorious as was pred…
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Briefing 293-Beavis And Butt-Head America
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Listening to Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley supporters I keep thinking of Beavis and Butt-Head type of thinking. How do these people get through a typical day in life? While you have every right to believe whatever you want I only ask that you use some common sense when making decisions. These groups are beyond my understanding. We are in the fight o…
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Briefing 292-America, A Culture In Collapse
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Imagine if you will a person being sent forward in time from the 1950's. What would they think has happened to America? You might say that is silly, of course someone from 70 years ago would be surprised by the changes, the technology, and our culture. That is a long time. But now imagine someone from just 20 years ago. Say 2004. Imagine how they w…
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Briefing 291-News Roundup Including Secret Society, Twitter Insanity, Dereliction of Duty via Loyd Austin, And The New Doc Drop
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Raise your hand if you think anyone is going to jail because of the new document drop regarding Jeffery Epstein. Yeah, that's what I thought also. These are the chosen ones. They are members of the "club." News flash, we aren't in that club. No one is going to jail. It is all a mindless distraction. If they powers that be were truly serious they wo…
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Briefing 290--I'm Baaaaack. Happy New Year And Get Ready For A Bumpy Ride
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Anyone who tells you that 2024 is going to be a wonderful year is either naive or in denial. This will prove to be the most important and possibly the most dangerous year in American history for the republic. The Deep State cannot and will not allow Donald J. Trump to occupy the White House again and what are the lengths they will go to prevent it?…
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Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems, as today’s crises show the world over. But as Alyssa Park’s book Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2019) show…
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Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
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Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building. Although many feminist critics have articulated women's active roles as dutiful collaborators for the Japanese empire, male-dominated …
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Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
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In August, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to complain about how U.S. regulations are holding local sunscreens back compared to the rest of the world. And while she didn’t name any specific country, the video featured headlines that did name one nation: South Korea. On social media, Korean cosmetics are now viewed as the wor…
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June Hee Kwon, "Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Migration is a theme intertwined with hopes and dreams. In Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke UP, 2023), June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea s…
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While I have always been a ardent critic of Elon Musk and his "smoke and mirrors" empire I need to admit that a broken clock can be correct twice a day. In this instance he is spot on with his defense of Twitter/X and his double middle fingers to the advertisers who want to control his free speech platform. I praise him on this issue and most impor…
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Briefing 288- -I'm Back, I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Going To Take This Anymore
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Howard Beale said it best in the 1976 satirical film about the decaying values of America and American television. I return to the airways and hope that you and I can turn over a rock or two to see the underbelly of politics and the human condition. We start today discussing why a second Trump presidency is a long shot and what the Shadow Governmen…
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Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popular image of the international student in the American imagination, an image of affluence, access, and privilege. In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim argues that universitie…
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Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new i…
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