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Bello: Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics
Authoritarian governments have tried to rig elections for ages. More dangerous are the far-right leaders concentrating their power by relatively fair elections
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Elizarde-Miller: Congress: Stop Funding Duterte
U.S. military aid to the Philippines doesn’t defend the country from invaders. It’s turned inward, against the poor, journalists, and human rights defenders
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Klare: The Navy’s War vs. Bolton’s War
The Pentagon’s Spoiling for a Fight -- But With China, Not Iran
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Prashad: This is the Hour of Madness
You came to us centuries ago as traders. Our rulers welcomed you. They traded with you in good faith. But that was not enough for you. You wanted to dominate our lands, to make our people work for you
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Nairn: Indonesian General Plots to Arrest Critics If He Wins Presidency
According to minutes of a campaign strategy session obtained by Nairn, Prabowo has made plans to stage mass arrests of political opponents and his current allies
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Chew: It’s Time to End U.S. Military Aid to the Philippines
U.S. taxpayer funds are bankrolling the worsening human rights crisis in the Philippines. Movements are rising to shut that aid off
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Sobel: West Papua – the world’s forgotten injustice
A look at ongoing military occupation and its gross human rights abuses
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Prashad: UN Judgment for the Decolonisation of Mauritius
The UK now says that the US’s military base ‘helps to protect people here in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats, organised crime and piracy’
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Cohn: Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his government committed war crimes...
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Feffer: The World’s Most Dangerous Divide
Maybe India and Pakistan will show more sense than their respective backers. These are ancient civilizations that have weathered many previous storms. Now they just have to team up to avoid a nuclear winter
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Hallinan: Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before it’s Too Late
Kashmir is no longer a regional matter. Nuclear weapons threaten not only Pakistanis and Indians, but, indeed, the whole world
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Pierson: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the Bomb
A report reveals that the Trump Administration is engaged in a frenzied dash to push through a sale of nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia without consulting Congress
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Feffer: Trump’s Bromance with Kim Is Gross, But Let the Love Letters Continue
Despite the failed summit, relations between the U.S. and North Korea are much better than they were 18 months ago.
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Boggs: The War That Never Ends
The current trajectory seems to be moving away from the likelihood of broader denuclearization. There is even rising clamor in both Washington and Seoul for redeployment of American nukes to South Korea
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Roy: Kashmir Is Potentially The Flashpoint For A Future Nuclear War
Narendra Modi has demonstrated to the world that Kashmir is potentially the most dangerous place on earth
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Prashad: 5.5 Million Women Build Their Wall
On Jan. 1, 5.5 million women in the Indian state of Kerala (population 35 million) built a 386-mile wall with their bodies
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Pilger: New Cold War & looming threats
Interview on U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”
ZMag Asia
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While Iran does not have nuclear weapons, North Korea does. That is North Korea’s insurance policy against U.S. military aggression
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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)...
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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