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Archives: Asia

Will China’s New Silk Road jump-start the World Economy?

Shang-Jin Wei | (Project Syndicate) | - - In recent years, many of the world’s most influential countries have turned inward, with politicians promising protectionism, immigration restrictions, and even border walls. But,…

Extremists, So-Called Muslims, bomb Mosques in Afghanistan, Killing Dozens

TeleSur | - - Over the past week, the Taliban has led a number of attacks in the country. Suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in Afghanistan, killing at least 72 people, including…

Are China and N. Korea biggest Winners from Trump dissing Iran Deal?

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - The recent move by President Trump to unilaterally decertify Iran under the 2015 nuclear agreement has predictably caused tensions between Iran and the West…

Burma: New Satellite Images Confirm Mass Destruction of Rohingya

Human Rights Watch | - - 288 Villages, Tens of Thousands of Structures Torched (New York) – Newly released satellite images reveal that at least 288 villages were partially or totally destroyed…

“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - It took 14 years, but now we have an answer. It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General…

Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash

By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when…

Rohingya Refugee Women Bring Stories of Unspeakable Violence

By Naimul Haq | (Inter Press Service) | - - COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (IPS) - Yasmin, 26, holds her 10-day-old baby, who she gave birth to in a crowded refugee camp in…

Trump’s Afghanistan Surge will Fail without Diplomacy, Anti-Corruption

How “ghost soldiers” could frustrate Trump’s plans for Afghanistan

By Jessica Purkiss | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) | - - Frank “Gus” Biggio arrived in Nawa, a district in Afghanistan’s embattled Helmand province, in the summer of 2009. Then,…

What if we Gave Six Wars and No Americans Noticed?

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in…

Plummeting in Polls, will Trump ‘Wag the Dog’ with Iran, N. Korea?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Voice of America reports that on Thursday, Trump met with US military leaders to discuss Iran and North Korea, then staged a…

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | - - Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the country and seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.Ludovica…

Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | - - (This essay irst appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer) Inexplicable sounds entered our internment camp Seventy years ago this year the Netherlands…

Rohingya Genocide: Why isn’t the World Community Doing Something?

By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - The Rohingya of Myanmar are probably passing through the darkest time in their history, with the international community standing almost idle. While the…

EV Game-Changer: China dumping Gasoline Cars even Sooner

By Zoran Radosavljevic | EURACTIV.com China announced on Thursday (28 September) it would start phasing out fossil fuel cars and set a 10% minimum quota of “new energy vehicles” in 2019, in…

Taliban target SecDef Mattis Helicopter in Kabul, hit Airport

TeleSur | - - U.S. forces responded with an airstrike but one of the missiles went off course in a “malfunction,” causing several casualties. Kabul's airport has been attacked by militants during…

Is Trump setting US course toward War with China?

By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise…

Rohingya crisis: this is what genocide looks like

By Alicia de la Cour Venning | (The Conversation) | - - The world is witnessing a state-orchestrated humanitarian catastrophe on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. The latest UN figures show a staggering 370,000…

As Muslims rally for the Rohingya, what About the Rest of Us?

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - If only Muslims reach out to help the Rohingya, the international community will suffer another blow to its reputation.…

How did the Persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Arise?

By Engy Abdelkader, JD, LL.M. | (The Conversation) | - - Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.…

Are US troops in Afghanistan causing Talibanism?

By Ann Jones | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Here we go again! Years after most Americans forgot about the longest war this country ever fought, American soldiers are again being deployed…