Professor Bruce Cumings on CSPAN2 - Modern history of Korea 5pm east.

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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings talks about the history of Korea and the country's long-running enounters with the West. Professor Cumings argues that Americans receive a very distorted picture of North Korea form the U.S. media and says that the North Korean government would like to normalize relations with the United States, but their efforts have been twarted by hawks in the Bush administration. He also talks about what the future might look like if there was a unification between North and South Korea. Professor Cumings takes questions from the audience following his remarks.

Bruce Cumings is a professor of history at the University of Chicago. He's the author of "The Origins of the Korean War," "War and Television," and "Parallax Visions: American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century."

replays at 7am Monday morning.

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1. He says the stock film CNN shows of Goosestepping N. Korean Soldiers

gives us the wrong impression of the country. All communist soldiers goosestep, even the army in Afghanistan does to this day.

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2. Generally these U of Chicago guys make me wary!

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3. Is it a personal thing?

:P

Actually, he's putting me to sleep a bit... but he's hinting that during the Q & A "we can get into the subject of the B*ush admin."

:shrug:

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4. Lot of NeoCons are educated there.

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These pro-Israeli Neo-Cons had been schooled in the Machiavellian/Nietzschean theories of Professor Leo Strauss who taught political philosophy at the University of Chicago in its Department of Political Science. The best exposé of Strauss's pernicious theories on law, politics, government, for elitism, and against democracy can be found in two scholarly books by the Canadian Professor of Political Philosophy Shadia B. Drury.2 I entered the University of Chicago in September of 1968 shortly after Strauss had retired. But I was trained in Chicago's Political Science Department by Strauss's foremost protégé, co-author, and later literary executor Joseph Cropsey. Based upon my personal experience as an alumnus of Chicago's Political Science Department (A.B., 1971, in Political Science), I concur completely with Professor Drury's devastating critique of Strauss. I also agree with her penetrating analysis of the degradation of the American political process that has been inflicted by Chicago's Straussian Neo-Con cabal.3

The University of Chicago routinely trained me and innumerable other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-Con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. Years later, the University of Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft Police State. Attorney General John Ashcroft received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Many of his lawyers at the Bush Jr. Department of Injustice are members of the right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka "Feddies"),4 which originated in part at the University of Chicago. Feddies wrote the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) I and the draft for USAPA II, which constitute the blueprint for establishing an American Police State.5 Meanwhile, the Department of Injustice's own F.B.I. is still covering up the U.S. governmental origins of the post 11 September 2001 anthrax attack on Washington D.C. that enabled Ashcroft and his Feddies to stampede the U.S. Congress into passing USAPA I into law.6

Integrally related to and overlapping with the Feddies are members of the University of Chicago "School" of Law-and-Kick-Them-in-the-Groin-Economics, which in turn was founded upon the Market Fundamentalism of Milton Friedman, now retired but long-time Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Friedman and his "Chicago Boys" have raped, robbed, looted, plundered, and pillaged economies and their respective peoples all over the developing world.7 This Chicago gang of academic con-artists and charlatans are proponents of the Nazi Doctrine of "useless eaters." Pursuant to Friedman's philosophy of Market Fundamentalism, the "privatization" of Iraq and its Oil Industry are already underway for the primary benefit of the U.S. energy companies (e.g., Halliburton, formerly under Vice President Dick Cheney) that had already interpenetrated the Bush Jr. administration as well as the Bush Family itself.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BOY20051217&articleId=1493

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5. Well, the most he ended up saying....

Was that the delicate balance that had the 2 Koreas, Japan and China getting along (for the most part) ended in 2000. He didn't even say "because of Bush".

I believe the neo-cons have got him pussywhipped. :(