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Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?

by Nayd Riham In late August of 2017, Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Chin Khali, Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima was at a…

South China Sea arbitral award: Formulating Philippine policy and legal framework and enforcement strategies

By Perfecto Caparas       In the face of China’s continuing illegal occupation of geologic features in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Manila must fight back and peacefully assert The Hague arbitral award. Manila’s inviolable EEZ rights In…

Chile: Humanist Action proclaims Gabriel Boric as its presidential candidate for the November elections

In an event held this morning at the Michoacán Cultural Centre in the La Reina Commune, Humanist Action proclaimed Gabriel Boric as its presidential candidate for next November’s elections and pledged to unite their efforts in the campaign, without any…

GPI vs. GDP: Does Size Matter More Than Substance?

U.S House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently introduced a bill in Congress to overhaul GDP, the nation’s most-watched economic indicator. July 30th she introduced the Genuine Progress Indicator (“GPI”) Act. It would be a significant change for the trajectory of…

Might Congress Actually Do Something Right?

To take recent news reports seriously, it seems just possible that sometime this year the U.S. Congress might pass a pair of pieces of legislation that combine to do more good than harm. Not only that, but this might happen…

India must mediate with Bangladesh to prevent anti-Hindu activities: PPFA 

Guwahati: Expressing grave concerns over the relentless attacks on temples and Hindu villagers inside Bangladesh, a northeast India based nationalist citizen’s forum urged the Union government in New Delhi to deal with the Bangla government in Dhaka strongly. Patriotic People’s…

The vicissitudes of the Chilean Constitutional Convention

“And it was necessary to suffer from that peculiar disease which since 1848 has been ravaging the whole continent, parliamentary cretinism, a disease which imprisons those infected as if by enchantment in an imaginary world, depriving them of all sense,…

A Viable—and Perhaps the Only—Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan

As each day goes by, the Taliban’s forces edge closer to controlling all of Afghanistan. In the first week of August, the Taliban swept through the northern provinces of the country—Jawzjan, Kunduz, and Sar-e Pul—which form an arc alongside the…

Professor Castillo: from the charm of symbols to the harsh reality of politics

Professor Pedro Castillo’s biggest challenge is “not to disappoint those who gave him victory”, writes anthropologist Rodrigo Montoya Rojas. “On its way, the government will discover how many of its promises are possible or not, and it will have to…

South China Sea: China’s continuing breach of its treaty obligations

By Perfecto Caparas To this day, Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army Navy continues to illegally bar Manila from accessing geologic features in Spratly Islands, even though they fall within the Philippines’ 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Beijing’s actions violate the…

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