Society

Borneo – Not Just Nature, But Also Great Ancient Culture Has Been Destroyed By and , October 05, 2020
While Europe was engaged inexpansionist wars, in the once lush, tropical Borneo, people who belonged to the ancient local cultures, used to decide things communally, by consensus, or should we use the Western term, “democratically”.
The Philippines Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law Triggers Mass Poverty. A Calamity Worse Than Yolanda By , June 29, 2018
Rice had jacked up to additional P11.00 this time, while meat products had increased by P50.00 more. Vegetables at P60.00 last January is now at P80.00 to P100.00. Electricity is again up this June by P00.80 per kilowatt hour.
Australia’s Abu Ghraib: Australian Government Complicit in Torture of Children at Don Dale Detention Centre By , July 26, 2016

The following article from Australia is a sharp rebuke of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm B. Turnbull by an Aborigine candidate of the Australian Senate that rightly criticizes his government for doing nothing to stop the torture and widespread abuse of …

A Victim’s Personal Recollection and Demand for Justice: Indonesia and the 1965 Massacres By , July 22, 2016

Carmel Budiardjo shares her personal experience in the aftermath of 1965 and comments on the influences that led her to create TAPOL.

One year ago today, Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights, Komnas HAM, published a landmark report on its …

Modi’s Escalating War Against India’s Forests and Tribal People By , November 20, 2020
In a Philippine Indigenous Stronghold, Traditions Keep COVID-19 at Bay By , November 11, 2020
Trade Deals Handing Japanese Seeds to Multinational Corporations By and , November 11, 2020
China: The Largest Cheap Labor Factory in the World By , November 10, 2020
Treadmill of Magic Seeds and Broken Promises: Dismantling the Myth of Bt Cotton Success in India By , November 06, 2020
Rising Trend of Islamophobia in India By , November 06, 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
Video: Jeju: Island of Resistance By , October 21, 2020
Deepening Solidarities Beyond Borders Among Southeast Asian Peoples By , and , October 13, 2020
Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture By , September 18, 2020
Asian Network Mounts Week-long Protest vs Golden Rice By , August 10, 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
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
The Indian Protesters Are Misled, but Not in the Way that Modi Says 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
Scott Morrisons’ Authoritarian Streak: Crushing Anti-Mining Protest in Australia By , November 03, 2019
Citizen Advocacy: The Achievements of New Zealand’s Peace Activism By and , October 03, 2019
Extinction Rebellion in Australia: Leaving It to the Students By , September 24, 2019
Lotteries and Rights in the Sporting Life By , September 18, 2019
Spikes of Violence: Protest in West Papua By , September 09, 2019
Australia’s Foreign Fighters: The Temporary Exclusion “Solution” By , August 31, 2019
The Sikhs for Justice Support the Kashmiris’ Struggle for Self-Determination By , August 08, 2019
India’s Doing Everything that Israel Wishes It Could Do, but Few Seem to Care By , August 08, 2019
India Is Getting Ready to Declare Anyone a “Terrorist” Without Due Process By , August 08, 2019
Is India Preparing to Unleash “Weapons of Mass Migration” in Kashmir? By , July 31, 2019
Eight Indian States Are Getting Ready to Crack Down on the Sikh Community By , July 28, 2019
Is India Preparing to Impose the “Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act” in Punjab? By , July 28, 2019
Khalistan Isn’t About “Sikh Supremacy”, but Challenging Hindu Supremacy By , July 26, 2019
India and the Khalistan Liberation Movement. Fleshing Out The Future Vision Of Indian Federalism By , July 21, 2019
Chronic Illnesses: Why Are Natural and Complementary Therapies Under Attack in Australia? By , July 19, 2019
Corporate Gangster in Australia: Adani Mining Giant’s Pursuit of Scientists By , July 19, 2019
This Roadside Mechanic from Rajasthan Has Rescued over 1,180 Injured Wild Animals! By , July 01, 2019
India’s Looming Agricultural Crisis: A Unique Chance to Change the System? By , July 01, 2019
In Indonesian Borneo: Humiliate Native People, Then Loot Their Land By , June 29, 2019
The Fragility of Democracy: Hong Kong, China and the Extradition Bill By , June 18, 2019
Encouraging Illegal Planting of Bt Brinjal in India: Political Posturing, Displaying Contempt for the Wider Public Interest By , June 14, 2019
Hundreds Died ‘as a Result of the Indonesian Elections’ By , June 06, 2019
Australia’s Voters Betray Themselves, Their Homeland and Mother Earth By , May 31, 2019
Illegal Bt Brinjal Growing in India: A Call to Initiate Criminal Proceedings against Regulators and Corporations By , May 15, 2019
10 Questions on Sri Lanka Easter Day Bombings? By , April 27, 2019
Lethal Bungling: Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings By , April 23, 2019
India Cuts Monsanto Seed Royalties for 3rd Time By , March 12, 2019
Labor in the Age of Duterte: The Pacific Plaza Strike By and , March 12, 2019
After Withdrawal from the IWC: The Future of Japanese Whaling By , March 02, 2019
Death by Video: Morrison Combats Refugees by Film By , March 02, 2019
GI, Veteran, and POW Voices of Conscience: Recovering the Voices of GI Resistance to the War in Vietnam By , March 02, 2019
The Criminalization of Filipino Children By , January 25, 2019
Mounting Social Anger Seen in Two-day Strike Against Indian Government By , January 10, 2019
Philippines’ Duterte Administration and His “Anti-drugs War”. Towards a Police State By , December 28, 2018
India’s Agricultural Crisis: The Kisan Mukti March by Impoverished Farmers Embodies the Concept of “Revolutionary Suicide” By , December 08, 2018
South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution and the Future of the Korean Peninsula By , December 05, 2018
India’s Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution Rejects GM Crops By , December 02, 2018
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions” By , October 29, 2018
What Killed Thousands of Indonesians — The Quake or the Misery? By , October 16, 2018
Agent Orange and the Legacy of the Vietnam War: Living Disabled By , October 11, 2018
Japan’s Integrated Approach to Human Security By , October 11, 2018
Lifting the Darkness: American and Vietnamese War Poets By , September 04, 2018
India’s Arrest of Leftist Activists. Fear of Social Revolution By , September 02, 2018
The Himalayas: Literature Can Displace Anthropology By , September 02, 2018
The Illegal Entry of GMOs into India By , August 25, 2018
Kerala Flood Is Thousands of Times the Magnitude of Thai Cave Rescue! Yet Still… By , August 18, 2018
Fukushima, Media, Democracy: The Promise of A Documentary Film By , and , August 16, 2018
Batam Island – Indonesia’s Pathetic Attempt to Create A Second Singapore By and , August 08, 2018
India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime By , July 30, 2018
Migrant Labor: A Central Pillar of Nepal’s Grim Economy By , July 28, 2018
Nepal’s Economy – Can Contented Tourists Match Desperate Migrant Laborers? By , July 21, 2018
The Papua Attacks Prove That Insurgency Is Still Alive in Indonesia By , July 11, 2018
Agrarian Crisis and Climate Catastrophe: Forged in India, Made in Washington By , July 09, 2018
Militants Threaten China’s OBOR Initiative in Myanmar By , July 08, 2018
CIA: How to Shape Okinawan Public Opinion on the U.S. Military Presence By , July 03, 2018
Australia: Send in the Troops! Deploying the ADF Against Rioters By , July 03, 2018
GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination? By , June 30, 2018
Australia, The Catholic Church in Resistance: Priests, Child Abuse, and Breaking the Seal of the Confessional By , June 29, 2018
Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan By , June 24, 2018
The Empire Strikes Back: Leaving Indian Farmers in the Dirt By , June 03, 2018