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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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The US Is Raising Tensions With North Korea
In January, two veteran Korea watchers — Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker — published a provocative short piece that argues that, “like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic...
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Pakistan’s People Will Vote Under a Cloud of Repression
Elections for a new parliament are finally due to take place in Pakistan on February 8. Much uncertainty still surrounds the polls. Not for the first time, Pakistan heads into elections with a popular...
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For Crisis-Hit Pakistan, Elections May Not Lead to a Meaningful Alternative
Scheduled for February 8, the upcoming elections for Pakistan’s National Assembly and provincial assemblies hold significant importance against the backdrop of numerous upheavals in the country....
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‘Murder of Democracy’ Said Supreme Court. Nation Waits to Hear from Its PM.
Modi speaking of a third term seems both democratically unlovely and rather ominous, given the shameless transgression in Chandigarh. The Trump-India moment is here, make no mistake. Elections are to...
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Historic Turnout In Pakistan Is Swamping The Military’s Effort To Rig The...
LAST YEAR IN Pakistan, a bystander happened to catch, on camera, police raiding the Sialkot home of Usman Dar. At the time, Dar was an opposition candidate representing former Prime Minister Imran...
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“Political Crisis Will Continue”: Close Contest in Pakistan Amid Election...
Initial election results in Pakistan show a lead for candidates affiliated with imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan’s political party was blocked from running for office, and supporters...
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Pakistan General Elections: A Vote Against IMF Policies and State Repression
Pakistan’s February 8 general elections resulted in a split vote, with no party securing a clear national majority. Voting occurred for 366 national assembly seats and four provincial assemblies:...
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Kashmir’s Struggle for Self-Determination
Together with Palestine, the state of Kashmir is one of the longest existing political and territorial conflict remaining from the aftermath of the British Empire. Kashmir, together with its sister...
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The Triumph of Ballots Over Bullets
As polls closed following Pakistan’s parliamentary election on February 8, major media networks began election-night coverage with prominent TV anchors and pundits discussing voter turnout and the...
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Pakistan Election Aftermath: Coalition Government, Economic Challenges, and...
On February 8, 2024, Pakistan conducted its parliamentary elections with 44 political parties contesting for 265 seats in the National Assembly. This marked the 12th general election in the country...
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Communities in Asia Pacific Challenge Waste Burning Industry’s Fake Promises
In 2003, community leaders and members in Broga-Semenyih Selangor protested and won the fight against the construction of waste-to-energy (WtE) incinerators in Peninsular Malaysia. Malaysia has set a...
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Indian Port Workers Refuse to Load Weapons for Israel’s War
On the 135th day of Israel’s relentless onslaught on Gaza, a resolute voice emerged from India’s maritime labor force. The Water Transport Workers Federation (WTWF), representing fourteen thousand...
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The October 7th America Has Forgotten
We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda’s September 11th terrorist...
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The Invisible Farmers
The lives of farmers’ wives are the real miracle sustaining the community. Unlike their male counterparts, these women are not listed as the primary owners of the fields they cultivate and have no...
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India Alliance’s Patna Rally: Is a Great Political Change in the Offing?
In the words of the English romantic poet who died a young man full of dreams, namely Shelley, the INDIA alliance rally in historic Patna was a “sight to behold, not to tell”. Close to a million (you...
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Pakistan’s Election Stitch-Up Exposed Its Ruling Bloc
The general elections held in Pakistan on February 8 herald a decisive shift in the terrain of mainstream politics. Candidates backed by Imran Khan’s effectively banned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...
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Modi Government Crackdown on Dissent Hits ‘Crisis Point’ Before Indian Elections
As India’s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month’s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to “stop weaponizing the criminal justice system to...
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Why the Far Right Rules Modi’s India
The rise of the far right is a global phenomenon. Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in the second most populous country on Earth, India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, under...
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Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of...
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