Category: Asia Pacific
What Has Publicly Blaming Cyber Attacks on Governm...
Posted by Emilio Iasiello | Jun 11, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 2 |
Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible,...
Posted by Ben Acheson | Apr 25, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics | 4 |
COVID-19 and Mass-Surveillance: Why South Korea’s ...
Posted by Mohammad I. Aslam | Apr 13, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints | 1 |
UN Praises Maldives Bill Outlawing Informed Consen...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 16, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 4 |
Hypocritical Jewish Organizations and the Armenian...
Posted by David Boyajian | Jun 25, 2019 | Asia Pacific, US | 6 |
Why Do Taliban Continue to Kill If They Are Serious about Peace?
by Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi | Jun 12, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints
The Taliban must alter their zero-sum mentality and seriously commit to bringing peace to Afghanistan before it is too late.
What Has Publicly Blaming Cyber Attacks on Governments Solved?
by Emilio Iasiello | Jun 11, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Blaming cyber attacks on governments has become routine, but has it resulted in accountability, punishment, or reduction in hostile cyber activities?
Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible, Not the Perfect
by Ben Acheson | Apr 25, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
The current political crisis in Afghanistan is actually an important step towards a realistic peaceful solution: a political “unsettlement”.
COVID-19 and Mass-Surveillance: Why South Korea’s approach is also anathema to civil liberties
by Mohammad I. Aslam | Apr 13, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints
Big Brother can do wonders during a pandemic, but the granularity of what it gleans is surpassed by the infringement on privacy that it can make.
Toward Virus Crossroads?
by Dan Steinbock | Feb 13, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, Science
In the coming days, new confirmed cases of the virus outbreak will continue to rise. Nevertheless, there may be some possible signs of steadying in China.
China’s Evolving Policy toward Japan in the East China Sea: What’s the Next Move?
by Chen Lu | Feb 13, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Essays, Politics
Both China and Japan are likely to enhance their physical presence in the East China Sea as each attempts to assert effective control over disputed waters.
Pioneering Effort to Contain Coronavirus Outbreak in Megacities
by Dan Steinbock | Jan 31, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
Chinese government has used very strong measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. The ultimate economic impact will depend on the eventual diffusion and infectiousness of the new virus.
Remarks on the US-China “Trade Deal”
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 18, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Economy, US, Viewpoints
It’s not a trade deal but a means for Trump to back off his tariffs after realizing they harm US consumers instead of China.
American Leadership Is Discredited — Will a New Leader Step Forward?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 8, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The alliance between Israel and the neoconservatives is causing a war. The solution is a countervailing alliance that brings the warmongers to their senses.
Putin’s Hour Is at Hand
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 8, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Putin knows that the American empire based as it is on arrogance and lies is failing economically, socially, politically, and militarily.
Putin Will Restrain Iranian Retaliation
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 8, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Russia cannot afford for Iran to be in chaos and has no choice but to protect the country, and Iran needs Russia’s support and cannot ignore Putin.
What the U.S. House’s Impeachment Inquiry Wouldn’t Ask Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
by David Boyajian | Dec 4, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
It is disgraceful that the US State Department continues to play diplomatic word games to avoid describing the Armenian genocide as genocide.
Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
by David Swanson | Nov 18, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
UN Praises Maldives Bill Outlawing Informed Consent for Pharmaceuticals
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 16, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The United Nations Children’s Fund has dangerously praised the Maldives legislature for passing a bill that fundamentally violates human rights.
Telling the Truth Has Become an Anti-American Act
by Paul Craig Roberts | Nov 1, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
When telling the truth becomes the mark of being a disloyal American, what hope is there?
CIA: The History of Deception
by Sam Chester | Nov 1, 2019 | Americas, Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The thing that makes the CIA such a threat to the world is how the agency gets off scot-free time and again no matter how egregious its activities.
Peace in Afghanistan
by David Swanson | Oct 26, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The peace activists in Afghanistan need the American people to do more to protest the US government’s war in their country.
Better Relations Between the US and Russia Are Not In the Cards
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 26, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The hegemonic ideology of the neoconservatives and the military/security complex’s need for an enemy preclude any normalization of relations with Russia.
The Concern for the Secretive Bio-Geopolitics
by Dan Steinbock | Oct 11, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Biological warfare cannot be excluded from the a possible causes of deadly and costly epidemics.
US Tariff Wars Penalize Chinese Development and African Futures
by Dan Steinbock | Aug 30, 2019 | Africa, Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis, US
In the coming months, some of the worst collateral damage of US tariff wars will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse impact is likely to be aggravated by US protectionism, which shuns economic integration in Africa.