Category: Power and Democracy
Student protestors occupy Sanam Luang, beside Bangkok's Grand Palace, on 19 September 2020. Photo: Jacob Goldberg
The political education of Thailand’s dissident youth
Thailand’s anti-government, anti-monarchy protests may have been triggered by recent abuses, but...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Civil society demand Laos government reveal Sombath’s fate
Laos: After eight years, civil society worldwide demands the government establish and reveal...
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Thai police use water cannons to disperse pro-democracy demonstrations in Bangkok on 16 October 2020. Photo: Sirikan Charoensiri
Thai government must end crackdowns on pro-democracy activists
Focus on the Global South calls on the Thai government to release all detained activists and lift...
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Thousands protested against Martial Law in Pepe Diokno Freedom Park, Quezon City, on September 21, 2020. Photo: PhilRights
Collective struggle, collective strength
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo, Joseph Purugganan, and Bianca Martinez As we commemorate today the...
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EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan. CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
Open Letter to EU Trade Commissioner on Philippines GSP+ Withdrawal
Note: This open letter was addressed to then-EU Trade Commissioner Paul Hogan on 1 September 2020....
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Protesters demand democratic reforms at Bangkok's Democracy Monument on August 16, 2020.
To dream the impossible dream: Youth-led uprisings in Thailand
By Supatsak Pobsuk “Down with dictatorship, long live democracy.” – Protest chant On August 16,...
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President Donald J. Trump makes a stop at a pizza shop in Old Forge, PA, on August 20, 2020. Photo: White House
Is the United States a failing state?
By Richard Falk To ask whether the United States, the world’s dominant military power, is ‘a...
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Photo: Facebook / Rody Duterte
Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19
By Walden Bello People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the...
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The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
by Walden Bello originally posted on Rappler ‘Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true...
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KASAMAS FOR LOVE, FOR PEACE. Heiwa koshin desu! (We are the Peace March!). Kiyosu Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 2019 June 10. Photo by Hideki “Run” Yokoe.
Peace and Courage in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity Message from the Global South to the 2020 Japan Peace March[i] By Galileo de Guzman...
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US Tank Convoy during the Vietnam war - goodfreephotos.com
The Racial and Genocidal Underpinnings of the American Way of War
by Walden Bello* The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to...
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What next for the Anti –CAA protests in India?
28 June 2020 Interview with Professor Manisha Sethi (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India)...
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