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Tajikistan: Independent Journalist Handed Seven-Year Sentence In Widening...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) regrets the conviction of journalist Khurshed Fozilov in Tajikistan on charges initiated in apparent retaliation for his journalistic activities and...
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India: New Congress Government Restoring Communal Balance In Karnataka –...
Composition of the new cabinet indicates fair deal for minorities marginalized during BJP rule The newly-installed Congress government in Karnataka has begun the process of restoring the communal...
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Malaysia’s Media Risks Falling Deeper Into Chinese Global Media Offensive –...
May 29 is the National Journalists Day in Malaysia. Independence of the media remains at the most critical stage of importance for the country and the world. It has to remain free from internal...
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Nagorno-Karabakh: The History And Present Situation Of Bloody Conflict –...
When any objective observer looks at the geopolitical map of the world and its crisis hotspots sooner or later he will reach Nagorno Karabakh in the South Caucasus. This ethnically Armenian region...
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Asian Leaders Call For Unity To Confront West’s ‘De-Risking’ Strategy – Analysis
By Kalinga Seneviratne The international media may have focused on the attempts at the G7 meeting this month in Hiroshima to unite against China promoting a “de-risking” strategy, which China sees as...
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5,000 Bashkirs Protest Russian Mining, Putting Putin’s Plans To Make Russia...
Some 5,000 Bashkirs have gone into the streets to demand that Moscow and Ufa end plans to continue to develop gold mining in at Middle Volga region. Ufa has not been able to quiet the protest, and...
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Bankruptcy Caravan Is Now Arriving: Time To Pay For Easy Money – OpEd
By Doug French* The character Mike Campbell in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises was asked about his money troubles and responded with a vivid description embracing self-contradiction:...
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Dr. Seuss, Philosopher Extraordinaire – OpEd
By Bruce Rottman* In 1974, the Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick wrote one of the most influential books since WWII: Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he argued for a minimal state. He reasoned...
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Ralph Nader: Inverted Corporate Capitalism – Blocking Their...
It is the season of annual shareholder meetings for giant corporations when CEOs go through the motions of elections for their Board of Directors and approval of other resolutions. People who own...
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Will US Treasury Bonds Default? – Analysis
By Wei Hongxu The controversy surrounding the U.S. debt ceiling increase has intensified recently as the deadline for potential default draws near. Despite multiple rounds of negotiations, the U.S....
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A Belligerence Towards Beijing That Is Unsettling – OpEd
By Manoj Joshi* The intensifying head-to-head clash between the United States and China has set alarm bells ringing. Beginning with a trade war in 2018, U.S. policy towards China has morphed into a...
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Tunisia: A Ticking Time-Bomb – OpEd
During Ramadan this year, just before nightfall when Muslims break their fast, dozens of Tunisian policemen swooped on the home of 81-year-old Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the country’s biggest...
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Spain Requests Parliament To Postpone EU Council Presidency Speech
(EurActiv) -- The Spanish government has requested the postponement of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s speech to present the country’s EU Council presidency at the European Parliament, originally...
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Bernie Sanders: The Worsening Childcare Crisis – OpEd
Let me begin by making a few points. First, I think that all of us pride ourselves as a nation that loves our kids. We all understand that our children are the future of America. But, we have a funny...
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China’s Governance Effectiveness As Reflected In Comprehensive Agricultural...
By He Jun For some time, the controversy over "agricultural management" in China has attracted attention within the country. In China’s context, "agricultural management" refers to the "comprehensive...
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China Is Doubling Down On Its Digital Currency – OpEd
By Thai-Binh Elston* (FPRI) -- Since 2014, the People’s Republic of China has been developing a digital currency called the digital yuan—also known as e-yuan, e-CNY, digital renminbi, or digital RMB....
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Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Make You A ‘White Supremacist’ – OpEd
By Julian Adorney Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of critical race theory (CRT), recently decried what she called the “war on wokeness” (by which she seems to mean a war on CRT). According to...
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‘Science’ Tells Us Energy And Cement Companies Cause Wildfires – OpEd
According to a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we can now blame forest fires on energy corporations: “Coal, oil, and gas companies are now directly linked to worsening forest...
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Shafarevich, Anti-Semitic Soviet Mathematician Who Popularized Term...
Igor Shafarevich (1923-2017), a gifted Soviet mathematician first associated with the dissident movement in the USSR but notorious for his writings about “Russophobia” which suggested the Russians, “a...
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The China-Russia Challenge To India-EU Relations – Analysis
By Siddharth Anil Nair* India’s relations with the EU and its members have intensified over the past few years. These relationships are a critical element of contemporary Indian foreign policy—but...
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