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Escobar: Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration
The Trump administration’s maneuvers are a testament to how China’s New Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), threaten the US establishment.
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Prashad: Reinstating Sanctions on Iran
China, Russia and Turkey have already indicated that they will not buckle to U.S. pressure
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Prashad: Confrontation in Dhaka
The Bangladesh government clamps down on dissent and democratic challenges
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San: South Korea: Women Workers Get ‘Dream Jobs’ Back
After 12 years of campaigns and protests against unjust layoffs, 180 female attendants at South Korea’s premier train service are getting their jobs back
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Zeese: Activists Criticize US for Delaying Real Peace
Activists want to see movement toward a real peace treaty and removal of economic sanctions, especially allowing South Korea and North Korea to normalize relations
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Scipes: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Observations from a Week in the Philippines, July 21-27, 2018, and Possible Ramifications
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Fuller: How women reclaimed their island from the Sri Lankan Navy
To effectively prevent violence, we must also tell the stories in which violence ultimately didn’t happen — for it is these stories that give us the guidance to make “never again” a reality
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Gallagher: The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency
This story is the product of a two-year collaboration between...
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Cohn: North Korea Agreed to Denuclearize, but When Will the US?
A powerful economic incentive continues to drive the nuclear arms...
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Vergès: About a small Mauritian island
Why is India abandoning its commitment to secure the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace?
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Cole: 8 Ways Iran Deal was Better than Trump’s North Korea Commitment
1. Trump met with and embraced Kim Jong Un, a...
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Feffer: Trump’s Korean Shell Game
The U.S. and North Korean leaders are both playing a long con designed to maintain their own short-term political survival
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Rasmus: Factional Splits Among US Elites
Trump’s pursuit of his ultra right economic nationalist policies, combined with the aggressiveness of US war-defense faction, will have the long run effect of reducing US hegemony in the global economy
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Ahn: Women Activists Head to DMZ to Promote Korean Peace Process
Interview on a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War
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As Yemeni civilians’ lives become increasingly desperate, they become increasingly isolated, their suffering made invisible by a near-total lack of Western media interest or attention
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Feffer: Playing Trump for Peace
How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad
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Vaun: Armenia’s ‘Velvet Revolution’: A masterclass in socialism
Armenians took a collective stand for basic socioeconomic rights - and they won
ZMag Asia
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Boardman: North Korea Does Not Threaten World Peace, the U.S. Does
Not only does North Korea pose no serious threat now, its hypothetical future threat is largely imaginary. Whatever military might North Korea has is unlikely to be used outside its own country unless the U.S. or someone else attacks it first.
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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...
Asia Video
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Bennis: Trump’s Threat is Illegal
Donald Trump's comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
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M.j.: Independent Publishing in India
Continuing our focus on independent publishing in India, we talk to...
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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.
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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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