Asia

Why did president speak of ‘calm before the storm’?

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 Marchi argues that the EU should take advantage of its good relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help ease […]

Colonialism

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

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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 began its first so-called ‘policing operation’ – an attempt to bring down the Indonesian republic by force. As is clear from Wim Wertheim […]

Buddhism

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

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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 Myanmar military and militant Buddhist monks are terrorizing this predominantly Muslim minority group and forcing them to mainly flee to neighboring Bangladesh, there […]

China

EV Game-Changer: China dumping Gasoline Cars even Sooner

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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 a move European industry groups called a game changer and a wake-up call for Europe. China, the world’s largest car market, has set […]

Afghanistan

Taliban target SecDef Mattis Helicopter in Kabul, hit Airport

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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 a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Afghanistan. The U.S. responded to the attacks with an airstrike that killed multiple civilians, […]

China

Is Trump setting US course toward War with China?

Juan Cole

Is a conflagration in East Asia coming by 2030?

Displaced and Refugees

Rohingya crisis: this is what genocide looks like

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Burmese Buddhist persecution of Muslim minority Continues

Buddhism

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

Juan Cole

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. They were Muslims, and they were leaving the country in droves. Their homeland, a remote corner of a multiethnic country, had become a […]