Asia

By Naimul Haq | (Inter Press Service) | – – IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 5 2017 (IPS) – In less than four months, over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled brutal persecution in Myanmar to seek safety across the border […]

Afghanistan

All Trump’s Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

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By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net | From Washington to Cairo, military aggression and “keeping the lid on” are proving deadly. And they will never work. Nov. 25, 2017: al Rawda mosque where a terrorist attack took place in Bir al-Abed of North Sinai, Egypt. The death toll in the terrorist attack here on Friday […]

Donald Trump

Lawmakers Scramble to Prevent Trump from Launching a Nuclear War

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By Lisa Fuller | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The most effective way to prevent a nuclear war with North Korea is to reassure them that the U.S. won’t strike first. Former National Security Council Director Peter Feaver recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “even a single nuclear detonation” could […]

Buddhism

Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia; Why Now?

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By Peter Lehr | (The Conversation) | – – Even ten years on, the first mental image that comes to mind with regard to Theravāda Buddhism is that of Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution of August-September 2007: thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully demonstrating in the streets of Yangon, Mandalay, Pakokku, Sittwe and other towns against the ruling […]

China

From Slights to Kow-Towing, Trump does Ugly American in Asia

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By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Fresh off an Asia trip where he showed surprising deference to dictators, Trump looks ready to start a renewed assault on critics at home. As a candidate, Donald Trump rallied voters against a variety of enemies. He vilified Mexicans. He stereotyped Muslims. And he […]

Buddhism

The Civil War inside Buddhism caused Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims

Juan Cole

Paul Fuller | (The Conversation) | – – There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centring around the Rohingya Muslims. There is what has been described as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against the approximately one million Rohingya who live in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine. As well as retaliations from […]

Afghanistan

Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation

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By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and — so they insist — win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, […]

China

Will Asia emerge as world Leader, propelled by Green Energy Policies?

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By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – China and South Korea could be game changers on climate — and create a more peaceful region in the process. There’s been precious little good news from Asia these days. Washington and Pyongyang continue to trade threats of war. Right-wing nationalist Shinzo Abe won […]

Coal

Oil & Coal & Crop Burning turn Delhi into ‘Gas Chamber’ of Air Pollution

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The Watchers | – – The Indian Medical Association declared a public health emergency on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, as toxic smog engulfed Indian capital Delhi. In some areas, Air Quality Index (AQI) reached a maximum of 999 and went beyond what instruments could measure. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the smoke-laden air […]