Emanuel Pastreich

Emanuel Pastreich has been an independent candidate for President of the United States, who until October, 2023, sought the nomination of the Green Party of the United States.  His collection of campaign speeches “I shall Fear No Evil” (September, 2020) has been translated into 13 languages and parts have been translated into another twenty languages. 

Pastreich has written articles about the environment, technology, globalization, international relations and security over the last twenty years, including numerous books in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. His writings at Global Research are widely read. 

He is best known for his advocacy for 9.11 truth, COVID-19 truth, Federal Reserve truth, and addressing the collapse of biodiversity and the destruction of the climate. 

Emanuel Pastreich serves as the president of the Asia Institute (asia-institute.org), a think tank that builds bridges between individuals in Asia and around the world to respond to the greatest challenges of our time: climate change, the impact of technological change on human society, the rapidly shifting nature of international relations, and the spread of a culture of anti-intellectualism. 

Pastreich started his career as an assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2005).  

Pastreich received a B.A. in Chinese literature from Yale University (1987), a Master’s Degree in comparative culture from the University of Tokyo (1992) and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University (1997). He studied abroad at National Taiwan University (1984-85) and Korea University (1998). He is fluent in English, Chinese, Japanese, French and Korean.