A week ago in Stanford while at a conference I heard that the the target of this sinking is Japan (and the whole issue of US' Okinawa base).
Anthony On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Marty Hart-Landsberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Sadly, my spanish is not good enough to understand all that is being > said in the video--but I do remember hearing that Fidel had previously > written about the sinking of the South Korean navel vessel, arguing that > it was not caused by North Korea as claimed, but more likely the result > of a U.S. mine. > > The consensus within the progressive community in South Korea is that > the South Korean government is clearly lying when it claims that it has > evidence linking North Korean to the sinking. The South Korean > government made these charges hoping to win big in recent local > elections; much to their displeasure they took a beating. > > Here is a link to a recent piece that highlights the weakness of the > South Korean claims: http://japanfocus.org/-Seunghun-Lee/3382 > > if you read the article you will be shocked at how weak the official > claims actually are. > > As to the actual cause of the sinking, no one is quite sure, but the > general feeling within South Korean progressive circles has shifted from > blaming a U.S. mine to a collision with a reef, which was in fact what > the coast guard was initially told had happened when called to come to > the rescue of the sailors. > > Regardless, what is happening around this issue is very similar to what > happened before the Iraq invasion, when the US put forward all sorts of > claims of weapons of mass destruction to justify its invasion. The > media just repeats what it is told, in this case by the South Korean and > US governments, never giving any legitimacy to those that challenge the > official story. > > Marty > > > On 7/13/2010 11:23 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > > In a panel devoted to discussing the danger of a nuclear war in the > > Korean peninsula or in the Middle East. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5kumJ3vs4 > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 22, 3 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc www.cbs.dk/india http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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