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29 FollowersEmanuel Pastreich began his work as director of the Center for Truth Politics at Green Liberty immediately following the cowardly acceptance of the fraudlent results of the 2024 presidential election by essentially all major figures in American politics. He declared that neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris, both having actively engaged deeply in state crimes and having accepted explicit bribes from wealthy donors in blatant violation of the Constitution, and federal law, are qualified to serve as president. Emanuel had run for president as an independent from February, 2020 until November, 2004. He was forced to leave the United States in 2020 because of his effectiveness in opposing the Covid-19 regime. He continued his campaign from South Korea, however, writing a series of powerful speeches and policy proposals which were broadly read (at Global Research and elsewhere) and some of which became the core of his book “I Shall Fear No Evil� (Book Baby Press). Pastreich was one of two candidates for president in the Green Party US in September, 2023, along with Cornel West. When the Green Party US refused to include him in any of their activities, or to formally present him in their press releases as a candidate, in violation of the party’s own bylaws, even after Pastreich gained as much support at Cornel West had, Pastreich left the Green Party to run as an independent. Cornel West also left the Green Party five days after Pastreich, citing a similar repressive political environment. Pastreich began his career as professor of Asian culture and is one of few intellectuals in the United States who is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He started teaching as an assistant professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1998. The reign of terror after the Bush Regime seized power in February 2001, however, led to a long period of overt political persecution of Pastreich within the United States because of his open criticism of totalitarian rule and state crimes. Pastreich wrote substantial and carefully crafted articles on international relations, security, technology, economics and culture in the United States, and in Asia, thereafter. Ultimately, Pastreich was forced to work at the Korean Embassy in Washington DC from 2005 because he was blocked from working at American institutions by Homeland Security directives. After a long effort to find employment, he was forced to move to Korea in 2007 where he founded the Asia Institute, a think tank dedicated to a constructive and scientific approach to long-term relations between the United States and East Asia. Pastreich returned to the United States to continue his political activities from 2019, and then again with broader support as a candidate running for president in the Green Party in 2023. He currently resides in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. Pastreich made up his mind early on in his career that because Asia was bound to become central in the international community, and in the American economy, it would be critical for the next generation of Americans to understand Asia accurately, and to be able to engage with Asians with the same level of sophistication as Asians engage with us. Because he spent part of his career studying, and teaching, in Japan and Korea Pastreich understands Asia in a sense that no other political figure in the United States does and has demonstrated real leadership in formulating a meaningful American response to the new economic and political realities of Asia. Pastreich recognized immediately in January of 2020 that the shutdown of the Federal government under the military-corporate-financial COVID-19 operation had ushered in a new level of institutional collapse in the United States that demanded action, not complaints or distractions. It was clear for Pastreich that the decayed political system that cripples the United States was incapable of addressing any of the serious challenges facing the United States: climate c