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As Heat Waves Intensify in India, These Inspiring Examples Show How Small Budget Efforts to Conserve Water Made Big Contributions By , June 17, 2025

Heat waves have been intensifying over vast areas of India in recent days and there are also many reports of water scarcity making the conditions worse for people. However the situation can differ significantly in various villages depending on whether …

Convergence and Integration of Several Objectives Needed for Policy on Tribal Communities in India By , June 12, 2025
There has been a lot of thoughtful discussion on policies relating to promoting welfare and sustainable progress of tribal communities in India which is also of much wider relevance at world level.
The Stagnation of Philippine Political Maturity: A Reflection on the Cycle of Personality Politics By , June 12, 2025

The political maturity of an electorate may be broadly conceptualized along a continuum comprising three distinct levels: personality politics, party politics, and platform politics. These stages reflect a progressive evolution in civic consciousness and engagement, ranging from the rudimentary to …

Philippine Senate Abdicates Duty in Duterte Impeachment Trial, Exposing Political Subservience and Institutional Decay By , June 11, 2025
Despite the clear directive of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which mandates that impeachment cases transmitted by the House must be tried by the Senate “forthwith,” the Senate majority voted to remand the case back to the House
Still a Negative Case? Japan’s Changing Refugee Policy in the Face of New Geopolitical Challenges By , July 09, 2024
Sydney City Council Takes First Steps Towards BDS By , July 03, 2024
Why Garment Workers in Bangladesh Are on Strike By , July 03, 2024
Explosive Hearing: Philippines’ House of Representatives Investigates 290K+ Excess Deaths Correlated with Experimental Vaccines By , July 03, 2024
Heat Wave Response Must Improve Very Significantly to Protect Vulnerable People By , June 24, 2024
Thousands of Farmers Participate in Seed Festival Aimed at Protecting Diversity of Indigenous Seeds By , June 24, 2024
Linking Ecologically Protective Farming with Consumers Who Value Healthy Food By , June 18, 2024
Australia’s Culling of 500,000 Chickens Is for a Manufactured Bird Flu Crisis By , June 14, 2024
Cambodian Companies Tied to Abuses Promoted by UN Program, Rights Group Alleges By , June 12, 2024
Video: Three Ways in Which Australia Arms Israel By , June 12, 2024
A Tractor That Brought Years of Debt for This Farmer, Ending with Suicide By , June 07, 2024
University of Sydney Investigates Sociology Professor’s Lecture Materials Referencing Palestinian Genocide By and , June 07, 2024
There’s a New Coordinated Push for More Western Meddling in Myanmar By , June 07, 2024
Individual, National, General – Obscuring Poverty in Post-Pandemic Japan By , June 05, 2024
Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems and Australia’s Future Fund By , June 05, 2024
New Caledonia Crisis Reveals France as Increasingly Aggressive Neocolonial Power By , May 31, 2024
Taiwan Continues Toward US-Engineered “Ukraine-ization” By , May 29, 2024
Indonesian Activist Freed in Hate Speech Case After Flagging Illegal Shrimp Farms By , May 29, 2024
Is Australia Doing Enough to Respond to Papua New Guinea’s Catastrophic Landslide? By and , May 29, 2024
A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence in New Caledonia By , May 28, 2024
Australia’s Anti-ICC Lobby By , May 27, 2024
Australian Doctor Got Turbo Brain Cancer After Two COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines By , May 23, 2024
Cambodia Doesn’t Owe Washington an Explanation Over China Ties By , May 21, 2024
War Games Risk Stirring Up Troubled Waters as Philippines − Emboldened by US − Squares Up to Beijing at Sea By , May 17, 2024
Australia: The Heroism of David McBride. John Kiriakou By , May 17, 2024
The Battle of Ðiên Biên Phú at 70 By , May 17, 2024
A Brutal Punishment: Australia’s Sentencing of David McBride By , May 16, 2024
The Chinese “Hypothetical Enemy”: Japan Rehabilitates A Problematic Prewar Label By , May 08, 2024
Student Encampment in Solidarity with Palestine Sets Up at University of Queensland By , May 08, 2024
Nesting in Australia: Indian Spy Rings Take Root By , May 06, 2024
Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away By , May 05, 2024
Anzac and the Pageantry of Deception By , April 30, 2024
GM Golden Rice in the Philippines Stopped: The Deception of Development and the Politics of Progress By , April 29, 2024
Warring Against Encryption: Australia Is Coming for Your Communications By , April 24, 2024
Agbiag ti Kordilyera! Solidarity Message to the 40th Anniversary of Cordillera Day By , April 23, 2024
Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick By , April 22, 2024
The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend! By , April 19, 2024
The Politics of Recognition: Australia and the Question of Palestinian Statehood By and , April 16, 2024
AUKUS Military Alliance Driven by Shared Economic Interests, Not China ‘Threat’ By and , April 10, 2024
Positive Outlook, with a Dash of Humour: Wang Yi’s Visit to Australia Sets the Tone for a Real Diplomatic Reboot By , April 10, 2024
Aukusing for War: The Real Target Is China By , April 08, 2024
Killing Aid Workers: Australia’s Muddled Policy on Israel By , April 05, 2024
South Korean Trade, Diplomacy Trending Away from China By and , March 28, 2024
The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer By , March 26, 2024
Video: Australian Pilot Captain Graham Hood Urges Australian Government to Stop the COVID Shots By , March 22, 2024
Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and Invading Iraq By , March 18, 2024
China, Myanmar Crisis to Dominate ASEAN Summit By , March 12, 2024
Thailand’s Kra Land Bridge (Might) Reshape Asia By , March 12, 2024
Matters of Revenue: Meta Abandons Australia’s Media Stable By , March 12, 2024
Australian Community Leaders Call on Albanese to Isolate Apartheid Israel, Scrap Weapons Deals By , March 06, 2024
Joining AUKUS Could Boost New Zealand’s Poor Research and Technology Spending – But at What Cost? By , February 29, 2024
Indonesia to Offer Tax Perks to Companies Investing in Reforestation of Its New Capital City By , February 29, 2024
Australia: When Scott Morrison Met Nemesis By , February 16, 2024
China’s Chip Industry Is Gaining Momentum – It Could Alter the Global Economic and Security Landscape By and , February 14, 2024
North Korea’s Kim Says Will Wipe Out Enemies If They Use Force By , February 14, 2024
Marcos-Duterte Feud a Reflection of the New Cold War. Opposing Views on US and China By , February 14, 2024
The Revenge of White Colonialism Motivates the AUKUS Alliance Against China By , February 13, 2024
US Ambassador to China: “We’re the Leader” of the Indo-Pacific By , February 13, 2024
Following ICJ Ruling, Japan’s Itochu to Sever Ties with Israel’s Elbit By , February 06, 2024
Australia’s First Nations-Palestine Solidarity Based on ‘Common Struggle Against Colonisation’ By , February 01, 2024
US Marines Rush Wonky Amphibious Vehicles to the Pacific By , February 01, 2024
Digest of Inter-Korean Tensions at the Turn of 2024 By , February 01, 2024
Korea’s Court Denies Japan’s State Immunity Again By , January 29, 2024
Philippines Pushing China’s Limits in South China Sea By , January 18, 2024
Japan Resumes Construction on New US Base in Okinawa Despite Local Opposition By , January 12, 2024
Taiwan’s Election on Saturday Will Decide War or No-war in China By , January 11, 2024
Australia Must Support South Africa’s International Court of Justice Case Against Israel By , January 10, 2024
A Merry AUKUS Surprise, Western Australia! By , December 21, 2023
A Conversation with Claudia Junghyun Kim, Author of Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan By and , December 12, 2023
Accidents of Eccentricity: Israel’s Pacific Hold By , December 11, 2023
US Shapes Philippines into Southeast Asia’s “Ukraine” By , December 07, 2023
Australia’s Actuarial Justice: Released Refugees and Secondary Punishment By , December 07, 2023
Labor Must Bring Refugees to Safety from Indonesia, PNG and Nauru By , December 05, 2023
Sovereignty Surrendered: Subordinating Australia’s Defence Industry By , November 30, 2023
To Bury or Not to Bury: Muslim Migrants and the Politics of Funerary Rights in Contemporary Japan By , November 29, 2023
Rot in the Civil Service: Farewelling Mike Pezzullo By , November 27, 2023
Rigging Avian Ballots: New Zealand’s Bird of the Century Competition By , November 20, 2023
The Politics of Indefinite Detention in Australia By , November 16, 2023
Sexual Violence and Gender Inequality in Japan By , November 15, 2023
Australia Is ‘Deeply Complicit’ in Gaza Genocide By , November 15, 2023