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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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Modi’s Hypocritical Doublespeak About Religion and the Constitution
Passing references apart, the most worrying feature of the current election campaign has been the lack of popular or systemic outrage against the way Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
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The United States Assembles the Squad Against China
In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the...
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Extreme Heatwaves in South and Southeast Asia are a Sign of Disasters to Come
Since April 2024, wide areas of south and southeast Asia, from Pakistan to the Philippines, have experienced prolonged extreme heat. Covering some of the most densely populated regions in the world,...
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Dear White Friends: Can You Smell the Yellow Roses of Dier al-Balah?
One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early 2000 was, “Oh, you speak our language so well.” To which I would reply politely...
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US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
Gaza is not the only place where Joe Biden’s government is aiding and abetting atrocities. Following a hearing on May 17-18, the International People’s Tribunal on War Crimes in the Philippines found...
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In the Largest Democracy, a Spade Must Not Be Called a Spade
Had Indira Gandhi been alive today, she would have learnt how to run an Emergency without declaring it. That she invoked, injuriously, a then-existing provision of the constitution to so do gave her...
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Alliance Politics in East Asia: More Security or Less?
The Biden-Kishida Summit The best thing about diplomacy between government leaders is that it may ease tensions. The worst thing is that it doesn’t resolve the disputes between them, making matters...
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“We the People” Need a Government That is Creatively Unstable
Let us pray that ‘we the people” have not voted for a brute majority to any party, followed by a ‘strong’ leader at the helm. Governments born of such a combo, as we have seen repeatedly worldwide, and...
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The Economic Fallout of India under Modi and the BJP
India is the world’s largest democracy, but perhaps not as secular as it was before PM Narendra Modi, leader of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), came to power in 2014. As Modi stands at the edge of...
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The World’s Largest Election Ever is Neither Free Nor Fair
From April 19 through June 1, 969 million voters in India will have voted in seven phases to elect the next national government, with results to be announced on June 4. This is the largest election...
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How the US is Scrambling to Stop Ukraine Peace Plan by China & Brazil w/...
While world leaders prepare to convene in Switzerland for a “peace summit” ostensibly called to advance peace in Ukraine despite excluding Russia from the meeting, Brazil and China have proposed an...
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Is NATO Taking Over the Pacific?
30% of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Naval Forces are from NATO Europe As the United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more...
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Cut Modi to Size: ‘We the People’ Take back Ownership of the Republic
What a healthful comeuppance. As if lending an ear to sentiments expressed in a previous column, the constitutional proprietors of Indian democracy, namely, “we the people”, have spoken for a...
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Electoral Setbacks for BJP Won’t Unseat Hindu Fascism in India
What will it take to defeat fascism in India — ruled by one of the world’s largest, oldest and well-funded fascist projects, Hindutva nationalism, now equipped with one of the world’s biggest digital...
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The Fight Against Caste Oppression Can Unite Indian Workers
The Indian state of Punjab, located on the border with Pakistan in the country’s northwest, has a population of twenty-seven million, the majority of which is Sikh. In recent times, Punjab has given...
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Hulu Jelai Rare Earth Mine Project Needs Scrutiny
The lives and livelihood of the Semai Orang Asli Community in Pos Lanai, Kuala Lipis, Pahang are in danger, once again. Pos Lanai is home to Semai Orang Asli communities. They have lived along this...
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Freedom from Pollution, Poverty, and Wasteful Systems
As the Philippines approaches its 126th year of independence, the newly established Philippine National Waste Workers Alliance (PNWWA) urges lawmakers to enact a Magna Carta for Waste Workers to secure...
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Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Seek Justice
On June 8th, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan, The International People’s Tribunal On The 1945 Atomic Bombings met with the goal of holding the United States accountable for the dropping of atomic bombs on...
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Narendra Modi’s Election Setback Has Opened Up a New Horizon
Narendra Modi has won a third successive term as India’s prime minister in a much closer general election than expected. The ruling coalition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is dominated...
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