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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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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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Amnesty International Asia
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Asian Exchange
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Asian Migration Trail
Asiana Press Agency
Centre for Justice and Peace
Forum Asia
Institute for Social Transformation
Kashmir Library
Kyoto Review of SE Asia
Southeast Asia Resource Centre
Southeast Asia Rivers Network
The Other Malaysia
Transgender Asia
U of Redlands Malaysia