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Amritsar Liquor Tragedy Is Just the Tip of a Wider and Worsening Tragedy of Alcohol-Related Deaths in India By , May 19, 2025

While the tragic death of about 23 persons in Amritsar district of Punjab and the serious condition of several others has understandably evoked a lot of concern, this must be seen as only a partial although very tragic reflection of …

Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)Stories—Japan, East Asia, and I By and , May 15, 2025

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This is a conversation between Japanese artist Mio Okido and art historian Asato Ikeda, centered on Okido’s exhibition Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)stories—Japan, East Asia, and I at the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin. The dialogue examines Okido’s exploration …

Attempts to Introduce Gene-Edited Rice Varieties Opposed in India By , May 07, 2025

India has a good record of standing up for safety of food by opposing GM crops, particularly in the context of food. This is why despite relentless lobbying by powerful corporate groups to introduce GM varieties for food crops like …

The UK-India Free Trade Deal: A Corporate Coup By , May 07, 2025

It’s a charming British summer for corporations, following the long-awaited UK-India trade deal signed after three years of negotiation. The Labour Party-led British government has hailed the agreement as “the best deal India has ever agreed to, providing businesses with …

Dangerous Crossroads: US “Rehearsal” of Invasion of North Korea. Largest Ever US-ROK Military Exercise By , March 15, 2017
Malaysia and the Question of North Korea. A US Led War against North Korea Would Affect the Entire Asia-Pacific Region By , March 12, 2017
Fukushima Radiation, What Prospects for Humanity By and , March 12, 2017
How Orientalism Pitted Hindus against Muslims in India? By , March 11, 2017
The Korean Crisis and the THAAD Missile Deployment: A Growing Tinderbox in the South By , March 11, 2017
Deforestation and Industrial Pulpwood Plantations in Indonesia, Devastating Social and Environmental Impacts By , March 09, 2017
Dangerous Crossroads: America Threatens China, US Deploys THAAD Missile System in South Korea, Beijing Warns of Nuclear Arms Race By , March 09, 2017
South Korea President to be Impeached? By , March 08, 2017
One Nation Train. “Make Australia Great Again”, US-Australian Relations By , March 03, 2017
Terror and Sectarian Violence at Delhi University By , March 01, 2017
Washington is Looking for a “Pacific Fight”. US Navy Report Envisages War with China By , February 27, 2017
Increase in Arms Transfers Driven by Demand in the Middle East and Asia, says SIPRI By , February 21, 2017
Who Americans Consider Their Greatest Enemies By , February 19, 2017
North Korea: Trump’s First Foreign Policy Test in Asia By , February 19, 2017
American Media Hacking “Fake News” About North Korea By , February 14, 2017
South Korea’s Defunct President Park Impedes Impeachment Verdict, Refuses Cooperation with Corruption Probe By , February 12, 2017
Extremely High Radiation Breaks down Fukushima “Clean-Up Robot” at Damaged Nuclear Reactor By , February 12, 2017
Lots of Shouting, Tiny Stick: Iran is “Not Behaving… They are the No 1 Terrorist State” according to Trump By , February 09, 2017
A Deadly Legacy: The CIA’s Covert Laos War By , February 09, 2017
GM Mustard Case Returns To Court In India: Bt Cotton Failure And Economic Distress Spun As A ‘Success’ In Pitch For GMOs By , February 09, 2017
Beijing Warns Against War with the US. “Disastrous Losses to Both Sides” By , February 09, 2017
Populism in Australia: Channelling Trump “Down Under” By , February 09, 2017
Trump Scraps The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for Bilateral “Free Trade” By , February 08, 2017
Indonesia’s Sumatra: Unspoken “Environmental Genocide” By , February 06, 2017
U.S. Imperialism in Asia: Trump Administration Set to Expand South China Sea Conflict By , February 05, 2017
The Dirty Truth Behind the World Bank’s “Commitments” on Climate Change By , February 05, 2017
Radiation Levels Are Soaring inside the Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant By , February 04, 2017
US-Russia Confrontation? Moscow Likely to Mull Action If U.S. THAAD Missile Deployment in South Korea Goes Ahead By , February 04, 2017
Trumping Australia’s Refugee Deal By , February 03, 2017
Rex Tillerson Backs Aggressive Policy in Disputed South China Sea as Exxon, Russia Eye Region’s Oil and Gas By , February 03, 2017
New Arms Race: China Develops its Naval Power, Launches Type 055 Destroyer. Analysis By , February 02, 2017
Guess Who’s Moving Factories to America to Lower Costs… China Seeks A “Made in America” Label By , February 01, 2017
The Rohingya: Myanmar Mass Murder Made in America By , February 01, 2017
Tectonic Shock in India-Russia Relationship By , January 29, 2017
Killing the TPP: Trump’s Executive Action By , January 28, 2017
Will Washington’s New Pro-Moscow, Anti-Beijing Gang Drive a Wedge Through the BRICS in 2017? By , January 27, 2017
The Trump Administration’s Disturbing US Anti-China Saber Rattling By , January 25, 2017
Myanmar and the Fundamental Rights of the Rohingyas. Sign of Hope, or Business as Usual? By , January 24, 2017
Development and India: Why Genetically Modified Mustard Really Matters By , January 23, 2017
China Extends Economic Influence in Balkans and Southeast Europe, Bank of China Regional Headquarters in Belgrade By , January 22, 2017
Indonesia’s West Papua: Settlers Dominate Coastal Regions, Highlands Still Overwhelmingly Papuan By , January 20, 2017
India, Death by Demonetization: “Financial Genocide”, The Crime of the Century By , January 20, 2017
The Japanese State Versus the People of Okinawa: Rolling Arrests and Prolonged and Punitive Detention By and , January 19, 2017
Nepalese Women: Symbols of Historical Achievements and Political Leadership By , January 18, 2017
China’s Challenge to the World Economic Order By and , January 17, 2017
One China Policy Nonnegotiable, Says Beijing. America’s Adversarial Policy against China By , January 16, 2017
India’s Man-Made Economic Calamity: How Many Will Die from Starvation, Malnutrition and Disease as a Result of Modi’s Demonetization? By , January 16, 2017
India’s Rising Income Inequality: Richest 1% Own 58% of Total Wealth By , January 16, 2017
Trump’s Policy on Russia and China? By , January 14, 2017
Trump’s Pentagon and State Department Nominees Threaten to Wage War on Russia and China By , January 14, 2017
Is Trump Already Finished? Threatens Iran and China, Neocons In Control of Foreign Policy? By , January 14, 2017
Dangerous Crossroads: Trump’s Defense Nominee General James “Mad Dog” Mattis Outlines Plans for Global War By , January 13, 2017
Is the US Positioning Itself for A Military Presence in Myanmar? Using the “Rohingya Crisis” as a Pretext? By , January 13, 2017
India’s Demonetization Triggers Extreme Poverty and Famine By , January 12, 2017
India’s Caste System, Social Inequality and Demonetization By , January 12, 2017
Taiwanese President Meets Senior Republicans, Fuelling US-China Tensions By , January 12, 2017
How do we Explain the Rise of Anti-Globalisation? The Implications for China By , January 10, 2017
The Fukushima Disaster and the Future of Nuclear Power in Japan By and , January 08, 2017
India, From the Destabilization of Agriculture to Demonetization, “Made in America” By , January 05, 2017
Fukushima Radiation Looms. No Nuclear Power Plant On Planet Earth! “The Incompatibility of Radiation with Human Life” By , January 05, 2017
Talk Grows in U.S. of Possibility of Military Strikes on North Korea By , January 05, 2017
“Demonetization”: Beware of the Digital Money Dictatorship By , January 04, 2017
Rohingya in Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ By , January 03, 2017
Coal in Indonesia: Société Générale Pulls Out of Financing, Crédit Agricole Under Pressure to Follow By , January 03, 2017
Reliving Agent Orange: Rethinking The Cost of the Vietnam War By and , January 02, 2017
Defending the Rights of Fukushima Victims, Humanitarian and Environmental Crisis: Debate in Japan’s Parliament By , January 01, 2017
Trump’s Election: An Opportunity to Reevaluate US-Japan Relations. The Benefits for Japan of a U.S. Military Withdrawal By and , January 01, 2017
The “One-China Principle” is an Irreversible Trend By , December 29, 2016
India’s Demonetization Undermines the Right to Food and the Right to Life By , December 29, 2016
India’s Demonetization Policy Triggers Famine In Rural Areas By , December 29, 2016
Environmental History, Urban Pollution and China’s Cities of Smog By , December 26, 2016
The Birth of China’s Aircraft Carrier Program: Military Analysis By , December 22, 2016
The Social Impacts of India’s Demonetization: Banks Threaten Impoverished Farmers… By , December 14, 2016
Fossil Fuel Corruption and the Environment: The Problem with Australia’s Adani Mining By , December 09, 2016
The Coming War on China. Nuclear War is No Longer a Shadow By , December 03, 2016
Genetically Modified (GM) Mustard in India: “Fudged Data,” “Unremitting Fraud” and “Monumentally Bogus” By , November 11, 2016
Washington’s ‘Pivot to Asia’: A Debacle Unfolding By , October 25, 2016
Kashmir: “We The People” Should Stand Up By , September 21, 2016
America in Asia: Arrogant, Unapologetic, and Ready for More Conflict By , September 20, 2016
China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power By , September 19, 2016