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Beyond Irritation: Bali’s Tourism Scourge By , September 17, 2024

Like eager lice on a ripe scalp, tourists have become a much-reviled feature of various economies.  While cash and contributions come in their wake, such an industry depletes, drains and pollutes the very site it idealises.  International tourism does

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Australia’s Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media By , September 16, 2024

The Australian government has been in a banning mood of late.  In keeping with an old, puritanical tradition, the killjoys and wowsers have seized the reins of power and snorting a good deal while doing so.  In important matters such …

The Anatomy of Philippine Religiosity: A Christo-Paganistic Influence on Filipino Culture By , September 12, 2024

Philippine religiosity is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon deeply rooted in a blend of Christian and pre-Christian beliefs. This syncretic nature, often termed “Christo-Paganistic,” has had profound effects on Filipino culture, shaping various aspects of life in ways that are …

Protecting the Merchants of Death: The Australian Police Effort for Land Forces 2024 By , September 12, 2024

September 11.  Melbourne.  The scene: the area between Spencer Street Bridge and the Batman Park-Spencer Street tram stop. Heavily armed police, with glinting face coverings and shields, had seized and blocked the bridge over the course of the morning, preventing …

Relations Between Mexico and India Are on the Rise By , November 03, 2020
China’s Growing Ties with Laos By , November 03, 2020
Why the US Will Miss Out on a Southeast Asia Suga-high By , November 03, 2020
Delhi Violence Warns of Indian Polarization on Communal Lines By , November 02, 2020
Kashmir in the Times of COVID-19 By , November 02, 2020
Misplaced Priorities, Unnecessary Effects: Collective Suffering and Survival in Pandemic Philippines By , and , November 02, 2020
Extreme Pro-US BJP Ideologues Must Not be Allowed to Sabotage Russian-Indian Relations By , November 02, 2020
The Philippines in the Eye of the Storm By , October 28, 2020
Philippine Court Upholds Open-pit Mining Ban in Mindanao By , October 25, 2020
Tarnished Crown: Finding the Thorns of a Gambling Empire By , October 23, 2020
Thailand Protests Are Anti-Chinese, Not “Pro-Democracy” By , October 23, 2020
Korea-Japan Relations in the Post-Abe Era By , October 23, 2020
China’s High-Speed Rail Reaches into Southeast Asia By , October 22, 2020
Video: Jeju: Island of Resistance By , October 21, 2020
Between a Forgotten Colony and an Abandoned Prefecture: Okinawa’s Experience of Becoming Japanese in the Meiji and Taishō Eras By , October 19, 2020
Forced Labour in Imperial Japan’s First Colony: Hokkaidō By , October 19, 2020
Philippine Foreign Relations: A Look Back in 2018 By , October 18, 2020
Cambodia Has Become China’s Unofficial Representative in ASEAN By , October 15, 2020
The Limits of Chinese Power By , October 13, 2020
Deepening Solidarities Beyond Borders Among Southeast Asian Peoples By , and , October 13, 2020
Malaysia: A Clear Direction for the Present By , October 12, 2020
Omnibus Collisions: Coronavirus Policing and Overreach in Victoria By , October 09, 2020
The Battlefield Experience of Japanese Soldiers in the Asia-Pacific War By and , October 07, 2020
The Emptiness of Japan’s Values Diplomacy in Asia By , October 07, 2020
Japan’s Economy of the Post-Abe Era. Powerless Fiscal and Monetary Policy By , October 07, 2020
No Matter What the Western Propaganda Says, Chinese Democracy Is Alive and Well! By , October 06, 2020
Vietnam Has Reported No Coronavirus Deaths – How? By and , October 05, 2020
Bt Cotton in India Is a GMO Template for a ‘Monumental Irreversible Catastrophe’ By and , September 29, 2020
Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture By , September 18, 2020
Rio Tinto Turns Cultural Vandal: The Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves By , September 14, 2020
The “End of Poverty” Illusion: Global and East Asian Realities in the COVID-19 Pandemic By , September 07, 2020
Pandemic Reflexes: Lockdowns and Arrests in Victoria, Australia By , September 06, 2020
Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (US, Australia, India, Japan) Intent on Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? By , September 06, 2020
Permitted Unlawfulness: The New Zealand Coronavirus Lockdown By , August 24, 2020
Underpaying Casual Staff and Forgetting Education: The Australian University Formula By , August 21, 2020
Asian Network Mounts Week-long Protest vs Golden Rice By , August 10, 2020
Selective Maritime Rules: The United States, Diego Garcia and International Law By , August 09, 2020
COVID-19 and the Reification of the US-China “Cold War” By , August 03, 2020
Covid-19, Hunger and Starvation in India. Globalist Takeover of India’s Public Health Policy By and , July 13, 2020
The Coronavirus Seal: Victoria’s Borders Close By , July 07, 2020
Spiked Concerns: The Melbourne Coronavirus Lockdown By , July 06, 2020
Criminalising Journalism: Australia’s National Security Craze By , July 03, 2020
Killing Koalas: The Promise of Extinction Down Under By , July 02, 2020
Defending Australia: The Deputy Sheriff Spending Spree By , July 01, 2020
COVID-19 and the Dire Living Conditions of India’s Bottom Half Billion By , June 24, 2020
Dishonour on the Bench: Dyson Heydon and the Australian High Court By , June 24, 2020
Modi’s Major Himalayan Mistake Crushed the Indian Military’s Morale By , June 18, 2020
China and India Increase Mutual Violence By , June 18, 2020
The Conviction of Maria Ressa: Press Freedom in the Philippines By , June 18, 2020
Battles over Education: Australia, China and Unsafe Universities By , June 12, 2020
The Afghan-Pakistani Rapprochement Complicates India’s Hybrid War Plans By , June 11, 2020
The COVID-19 War in Japan: Is National Face-Saving More Important than the People’s Lives? By , June 09, 2020
Oil Price Wars, Covid-19 Havoc and the Evolving US-China Trade War By , June 08, 2020
Communalism and Coronavirus: India’s New Strain of Virus By , June 08, 2020
Japan’s Streets of Rage: The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Uprising and the Origins of Contemporary Japan By , June 08, 2020
Budget Cockups in the Time of Coronavirus: Reporting Errors and Australia’s JobKeeper Scheme By , May 25, 2020
Pandemic Inquiry Wars: Australia, the United States and the Coronavirus Investigation By , May 21, 2020
Battles Over Barley: Australia, China and the Tariff Wars By , May 20, 2020
Feudal Japan Edo and the US Empire By , April 22, 2020
The Illiberal Turn in Indonesian Democracy By , April 17, 2020
Abe Shinzo and Japan’s One-Strong (Ikkyo) State By , April 02, 2020
Genetically Modified Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India By , February 07, 2020
Is Singapore About to Become a U.S. Military Hub Against China? By , January 30, 2020
The TEPCO Trial: Prosecution and Acquittal after Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown By , and , January 19, 2020
Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture By , January 17, 2020
Australia’s Fires and Air Pollution, Tennis and Sporting Officialdom By , January 16, 2020
India’s Kashmiri Detainee Self-Censorship Demand Is Undemocratic By , January 14, 2020
The Indian Protesters Are Misled, but Not in the Way that Modi Says By , January 10, 2020
Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect By , January 10, 2020
Massive All-India General Strike Protests Modi’s Pro-investor, Communalist Policies By and , January 10, 2020
India’s Democracy Is Facing an Existential Threat By , January 09, 2020
Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India By , January 07, 2020
Some Devastating Facts About the Australian Bushfires By , January 06, 2020
War, Rape and Patriarchy: The Japanese Experience By , January 03, 2020
India’s Infringement over Nepal Border Area By , January 03, 2020
Australia Burns: Fireworks, Bush Fires and Denial By , January 02, 2020
The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets By , December 30, 2019
The Uyghur Issue: How Can the U.S. Dare Lecturing China About the Rights of the Muslims? By , December 12, 2019
Divide and Conquer Tactics: Millions of Deaths Triggered by the British Empire By , December 12, 2019
From Shanghai to Chongqing: The World’s Most Expensive Railway By , December 12, 2019