NATO’s current nuclear strategy is untenable. Crises during the Cold War reveal that nuclear strategies become dangerous exactly in the circumstances they are intended to deter, in political confrontations.
Founding member of the Demosistō political party talked to World Forum for Democracy youth delegates about the importance of social movements and direct action.
China is a repressive country. It’s also a laboratory for democracy in the digital age.
We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
For years Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by any means possible. It is time to re-examine theses advanced by Arendt and Staub, taking the role of bystanders far more seriously.
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If only we can bear to look.
Singapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from being won.
US-led war games may look like a defensive manoeuver to us, but from North Korea‘s perspective they do not look the same.
A moment of silence for Liu Xiaobo's death, and the cause of personal freedom in China.
"We are ‘orang desa’ (country people), far from big cities. Maybe it’s hard for you to imagine that we work close to the earth, outside and sweating from morning until night."
The Philippines senator’s detention is emblematic of ‘sneaking authoritarianism’ amid the president’s bloody war on drugs. From jail, she says: “My case is a test”.
