The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
Just as with Cuba in 1962, the U.S. starts from the position that we must have the power to kill others, but they can’t be able to kill us.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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