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Essertier: Why North Korea Acquired Nukes
The near obliteration of infrastructure in Korea and the resultant suffering must remain deeply entrenched in the memories of North Koreans
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Richman: Not the First Time for North Korea
The North Korean people have seen their share of fire and fury at the hands of the U.S military
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Gerson: Diplomacy to Resolve Crisis
We face a situation with dangerous parallels to the period leading to the Guns of August in 1914
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Natividad: Guam: Resistance Grows to US Military
For decades, residents of Guam have resisted the militarization and colonization of their homeland by the United States
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The same intel “folks” who brought to you babies pulled from incubators by “evil” Iraqis as well as non-existent WMDs are now peddling the notion that North Korea has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead
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Johnson: Media coverage of North Korea
Media coverage has created a massive gap between our desire to attack North Korea and our understanding of the crisis
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Ahn: Trump Threatens North Korea
President Trump has doubled down on his "fire and fury" threat to North Korea, saying maybe it "wasn't tough enough
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Feffer: Isolating the Isolated
The short-term challenge, as we all try to prevent war on the Korean peninsula, is to demonstrate that the apple of engagement is a healthy alternative to the junk food of isolationism
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Pastreich: Korea’s True Security Challenges
North Korea isn't the biggest threat to the world. Climate change is
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Today will be remembered as the day the resistance to dictatorship was reborn
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Melencio: A dangerous situation
The time is ripe for a mass-based political alternative that is composed of all sectors, sections, classes, and movements hankering for a system change in society today
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Ahn: Americans and South Koreans Want Peace
Korea's new pro-engagement president may not have to be as deferential to Washington hardliners as his predecessors
ZMag Asia
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The “pivot” (also called the “Indo-Asia-Pacific Rebalance”) is centered on exerting a greater U.S. economic, diplomatic, and military influence in the world’s most populous and economically vibrant region.
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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...
Asia Links
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Amnesty International Asia
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Asia Human Rights Commission
Asia Info-Tech Policy Monitoring
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Asia Women's Resource Exchange
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