Tim Shorrock

How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...

Love hearing Bob Dylan in his earliest recordings singing about joining a union and paying his dues. The American way. Or should be. 🇺🇸

Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pitts...

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".

The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
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"Health" Man lol

Bluto is very mad.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

They’re selling postcards of the hanging…

Zohran Mamdani’s Bob Dylan-Themed Ad Removed From X After Publisher Denies Song Clearance Zohran Mamdani's Bob Dylan-themed ad was removed from X after Dylan's music publisher UMPG denied the use of the song “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”

Zohran Mamdani’s Bob Dylan-Themed Ad Removed From X After Publisher Denies Song Clearance

South Korea is not at your beck and call, Rep. Raskin. It has its own agency and does not answer to Democratic Party liberals. Perhaps it had its own reasons to do this.

OK, now we get it. Nippon Steel helped create the largest South Korean steel mill - POSCO - in the 1970s. Now it's trying to out-compete the Koreans in the US market. Funny in part because US Steel once formed a joint venture with POSCO in the Bay Area.

HAWKING THE EMPIRE: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, 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 Trump's Department of War. A Hidden History.

NEW: Dick Cheney is dead - morte - and Pete Hegseth's privatized "Department of War" is his legacy. An in-depth piece on how Cheney helped create the intel-based concept of netcentric war being carried out by the Trump administration. #Spies4Hire

OK - but you're not blocked. I just refollowed you. Thanks.

This person took this when they called the race

CNN is totally freaked out that Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his militant speech tonight lol.

Just finished a lengthy story on the death of Neocon Man and how Cheney & Rumsfeld created the intel-based concept of netcentric warfare being carried out by Hegseth & Trump. Watch for my Substack story Wednesday morning. 🌺#Spies4Hire

Forgot about this post. The Times really outdid itself on Charlie Kirk. Astonishing, really.

Sickening.

Today (Monday) too. Stunning color.

RIP Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay

Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.

US Marine arrested in Okinawa for alleged assault on restaurant worker - The Mainichi NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A U.S. Marine was arrested Monday on suspicion of injuring a restaurant employee by grappling the man by the throat in Naha, Ok

"US Marine arrested in Okinawa for alleged assault on restaurant worker"
Is this what the US military means when it says its personnel are in Japan to protect people?
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The trees are lovely in DC today.

He's trying way too hard.

Goddam it I used to have this red record. Lost it somehow over the years.

To be Japan's 'Iron Lady,' Takaichi should call Trump's bluff with Lee Tokyo and Seoul must unite to counter US pressure on trade

Excellent analysis of how the new leaders of Japan and South Korea could reframe trade relations with the MAGA Embecile, from the UK's Aidan Foster-Carter, who's been around Korean studies for as long as I have.
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[Interview] Haecho knew she might die. Trying to bring aid to Gaza was worth the risk. Kim A-hyun, who goes by the activist moniker “Haecho,” became the first Korean to join a Gaza relief flotilla. She recounted her preparation for the voyage and her mistreatment in Israeli detention in...

"Haecho knew she might die. Trying to bring aid to Gaza was worth the risk." Kim A-hyun, who goes by the activist moniker “Haecho,” became the first Korean to join a Gaza relief flotilla. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Tim Shorrock (@timshorrock) 50 years ago this week, Bob Dylan kicked off his Rolling Thunder tour in New England. I missed it - I didn’t have the dough! I wrote this memory in response to an interview with Roger McGuinn in Ray ...

50 years ago this week...I wrote this memory about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour in response to an interview with Roger McGuinn in @raypadgett's great newsletter ‘Flagging Down the Double E’s.’ It’s a must for any Dylan fan.
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😂 a class all by himself

“I’ve emerged from my experiences in Asia with an identity that puts me at odds with the dozens of American ‘experts’ on North Korea, China, and Japan, whose focus is not solidarity but American dominance.” Me on Substack, plus some books you should read. 🌺
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Yes, the police we have should be abolished.