Asia Watch
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Bello: Superpower Conflicts Are Driving Tensions in the South China Sea
The Philippines won a huge legal victory against China on a long-running territorial dispute. But Manila's alliance with Washington may make it all for nothing
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It all comes down to the same thing in the end. If Muslims attack us, they are terrorists. If non-Muslims attack us, they are shooters. If Muslims attack other Muslims, they are attackers
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Surya: India’s Heart of Darkness Exposed by the Crackdown in Kashmir
There is no escaping the implications of the horrors with which innocent, mostly unarmed civilians of India-held Kashmir have been bombarded ever since the present crisis erupted
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Anderson: Bikini islanders still deal with fallout of US nuclear tests, 70 years later
In 1946, French fashion designer Jacques Heim released a woman’s...
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Falk: An Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
The Case for Disengagement A few years ago Barack Obama...
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The demonstrators were protesting against heavy US military presence and grave crimes repeatedly committed by servicemen against the residents
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Tariq: Migration, fundamentalism & terrorism in Asia
A mass working-class alternative in the shape of trade unions and political parties linked with social movements is the most effective manner to counter religious fundamentalism
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The Philippine President Duterte, like the GOP nominee, bullies the media when they do their job and threatens violence
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Raina: A Triumph Only On Television
Sifting truth from hype is now a patriotic task. Look how the BJP's Assam win was pitched as an India-shaking success
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Bello: Biggest threat to democracy is using fear of a Duterte win to justify stealing elections
We must reject the suggestion that subversion of the democratic process might be needed to save democracy
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Mitchell: Contamination at Largest US Air Force Base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa
Documents reveal how years of accidents and neglect have polluted local land and water with hazardous chemicals including arsenic, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos and dioxin
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Hiroaki: “The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime”
Interview with an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011
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Bacon: Vietnam’s Labor Newspaper
Lao Dong belongs to the official union federation, but it maintains an independent critical voice
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Fletcher: For a “Third Reconstruction”
Fear is a driving force in the USA and the fear of terrorism obscures so much of what is really at stake in matters of foreign policy
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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
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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Starin: Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) in Laos
Nong Khiaw, on the banks of the Nam Ou...
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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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Nema: So someone hurled an egg at her
Almost gloating, Times of India informs us about how a...
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: email to NPR talk of the nation
Hello- Thanks for your show. My question and comment: Mr....
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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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A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion...
