P. Sainath. 23 Dec, 2021 The CJI rightly observes that investigative journalism is vanishing in India. But doesn’t the judiciary need to confront the reality that press freedom is at…
Category: Allies
Rich Western countries stand by as Afghans face starvation
By Vijay Prashad. January 15, 2022 The UN has issued ‘the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance’ On January 11, the United Nations emergency relief coordinator, Martin…
Right-Wing Hate Speech Runs Rampant in India’s Elections
Vijay Prashad 05 Jan 2022 The upcoming elections in three Indian states will be a contest between the BJP’s polarizing, violent, Islamaphobic messages and efforts to create a more plural, more…
Hong Kong: An Orwellian City Soon Joining an Orwellian State
By Au Loong-Yu, 24 January 2022 On 21 December 2021, the Chinese State Council Information Office released its White Paper “Democratic Progress Under the Framework of One Country, Two Systems”, insisting…
Ignorance, denial and insurgency in Mozambique
By Corinna Jentzsch, December 17, 2022 A new and different state is necessary to manage the complex problems in the region, but is it possible under the current regime that…
Indonesia: 50% of national strategic project land in 2021 originated from agrarian conflicts: KPA
By CNN Indonesia, January 6, 2022 Jakarta — The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) has revealed that throughout 2021 almost 50 percent of land procured by the government for national strategic…
Pakistan: Hail the emperor
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, January 7, 2022 WHO rules Pakistan? Some may say the answer is simple: the establishment. This may be accurate to the extent that our structure of…
“Reform, Not Abolition”: The “Thai Youth Movement” and Its Demands for Reform of the Monarchy
By Anusorn Unno, January 2022 Introduction On 10 August 2020, a student organisation called the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) held a gathering at Thammasat University’s Rangsit Centre…
For Myanmar workers, another problem emerges: labor abuse
Employees say they are forced to work overtime and their pay is often late since the Feb. 1 coup. Factory managers in Myanmar are suppressing workers’ rights, with mandatory overtime…
Britain’s shameful slavery history matters – that’s why a jury acquitted the Colston Four
By David Olusoga, 6 Jan 2022 Jurors were asked to rule that Edward Colston’s heinous crimes were immaterial, but they chose to put themselves on the right side of history…