I Shall Fear No Evil

We are in the midst of a campaign muddied by hype and poisoned by corruption. A single candidate has stepped forward to describe the answer to this decay— elect an independent candidate to the presidency. These thirteen speeches made by Emanuel Pastreich between his declaration of candidacy in February and July of 2020 depict the reality we find ourselves in and offer real solutions.

We are in the midst of a campaign muddied by hype and poisoned by corruption. A single candidate has stepped forward to describe the answer to this decay— elect an independent candidate to the presidency. These thirteen speeches made by Emanuel Pastreich between his declaration of candidacy in February and July of 2020 depict the reality we find ourselves in and offer real solutions. Pastreich refuses to pin the blame on any one person. He suggests we return to the spirit of the constitution and rediscover the ethical foundations for good governance that have been buried by public relations firms, investment banks, and legions of politicians and self-appointed experts.

Emanuel Pastreich has emerged over the last two decades as the leading voice for a rational American policy in diplomacy and security with a laser focus on climate and biodiversity collapse, the catastrophic impact of new technology on human society, the concentration of wealth, and the global arms race. Pastreich strives to reinvent the traditions of internationalism pursued by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson in his writings and in his speeches. He demanded that the trillions given to corporations over the last year must be returned to the people, that multinational conglomerates like Amazon and Facebook must be run as regulated cooperatives, and that the assets of fossil fuel corporations must be seized immediately and their owners and administrators charged for the criminal actions of presenting fraudulent information to the government, and to the people about climate change. Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1964, and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, Pastreich started his career as a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998. An Asia expert fluent in Korean, Japanese and Chinese, he has argued for the last two decades that Americans must obtain a sophisticated understanding of Asia in order to address the challenges of this century and that an emotional or racist anti-Asian response will be profoundly damaging to our country. He serves as president of the Asia Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington D.C., Seoul, Tokyo and Hanoi.