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Mokhiber: Heather White and the Human Costs of Electronics
Heather White is a graduate of Harvard and MIT. Who...
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Bond: With Capitalism in Crisis, ‘Look East’ — but Blame the West
The Chinese financial meltdown is another instance of the system’s core contradictions, but one potentially big enough to pull it all down
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Engelhardt: Why the Islamic State Is the Minor Leagues of Terror
Putting Threats into Perspective for 2016
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Rasmus: Japan’s 5th Recession in 7 Years; Who’s Next?
Emerging Market Economies To Slow Further in 2016
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Bello: APEC: Arena for Competing Geoeconomic Visions
Why does APEC survive after failing to become a free trade area? Is it that big powers find it useful to recruit allies for rival visions?
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Escobar: Will Chess, Not Battleship, Be the Game of the Future in Eurasia?
Silk Roads, Night Trains, and the Third Industrial Revolution in China
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Kelly: Japan’s Right to Renounce War
While the U.S. Defense Secretary chides China for engaging in land reclamation in the South China Sea, the U.S. presses Japan to abandon its pacifist constitution
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Evans: Henoko takes on U.S. Imperialism
The overwhelming feeling of the local people is that the Government on the mainland is willing to sacrifice the wishes of Okinawans in order to pursue its military defense measures against China
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Sen: Women’s Progress Outdid China’s One-Child Policy
The abandonment of the one-child policy in China is a...
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Bell: Living Under the Metal Osprey
My goal in travelling to Okinawa is to tell other people in the U.S. about that reality, of bases maintained on forcefully expropriated land
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Bell: The U.S. Ought to Un-Swivel Its China Pivot
For the last week, I’ve been walking on a peace march organized by the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhist monks
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McCormack: Urgent Okinawan Appeal for Help
Under the government design, a major military facility would be constructed on Oura Bay (Henoko district) for the US Marine Corps
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Prashad: What remains in Afghanistan
The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) keeps as diligently...
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Benjamin: A Prescription for Afghan Hospital Bombing
On October 3, a US airstrike destroyed a Médecins Sans...
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A wide spectrum of India’s public activists and intellectuals now do understand that something unprecedented is on the agenda
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Raina: Preparing for that Make-over?
The conflict to be between the tolerant and the intolerant among all religions
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Gerson: More than Economics: TPP, Empire and Common Security Alternatives
As Congress moves to debate the ratification of the Trans Pacific Partnership, our message should be clear: Not this treaty
ZMag Asia
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Herman: Trans-Pacific Partnership versus Equality and Democracy
The TPP would encourage further out-sourcing and job and tax revenue loss, a further weakening of labor’s bargaining power, windfalls for the wealthy from enhanced copyright and patent protection, along with reduced government revenue for social spending
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Gerson: Countering Washington’s Pivot and the New Asia-Pacific Arms Race
With Obama’s reelection, we avoided the worst possible outcome, a...
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Davies: Checkmate In The Great Game
The June 15-16 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
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Valentine: Provincial Reconstruction Teams
On the morning of December 31, I listened in disbelief...
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Herman: The United States As Nation-Buster
The remarkable thing about the United States, as it has...
Asia Video
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Weissman: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord
The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations reached an agreement Monday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Roy: Debunking the Gandhi Myth
On the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi
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Pilger: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1979. The shocking state of Cambodia after Pol Pot's murderous regime.
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Roy: Is India on a Totalitarian Path?
Arundhati Roy on Corporatism, Nationalism and World’s Largest Vote
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Wasserman: U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File Suit
79 American veterans of 2011’s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi (“Friendship”) have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power.
Asia Audio
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Rasmus: China Chasing Its Shadows
A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets
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Rasmus: Japan’s Recession & Global Capitalism’s Growing Contradictions
Capitalist monetary policies bail out the rich, but simultaneously cause the rest of the global economy to gradually grind to a halt
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Rasmus: US GDP Drop & Shadow Banks
Rasmus continues his analysis of the growing influence and instability in the global shadow banking system, including a look at the major role being played by shadow banks in China today
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Rasmus: China’s Slowing Economy and Rising Financial Instability
A talk on the reasons why China’s economy is slowing, and its potential impacts on emerging markets, Europe, and the rest of the global economy
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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould discuss the United States’ outmoded...
Asia Blogs
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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: Ballot Box China – Internation Affairs Forum
As part of Politics Week at Leeds Metropolitan University, the...
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Forte: ACTION ALERT: Sign the Anthropologists’ Statement on the Human Terrain System
ACTION ALERT: Sign the Anthropologists’ Statement on the Human Terrain System
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Addison: Afghanistan: conditionalized off-Accord re-take
Afghanistan conditionalized off-Accord re-take My latest means of expanding base...
Asia Books
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: Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
About the Book Since 1988, China has undergone one of...
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Roy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. Hamish...
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