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Women intellectuals and activists from across Asia gathered to expose a single truth: US military bases scattered across the continent do not protect their hosts – they import war, poison the land, and exact a…

From Okinawa’s farmers to the Philippines’ ‘Magnificent 12’, Asia’s peoples have confronted US militarism before – a tradition more urgent now as the New Cold War arrives on their shores.

Nepal’s left has suffered a historic electoral rout. A veteran communist reflects on the ideological drift, generational disconnect, and geopolitical pressures that brought the movement to this crossroads – and what must be done now.

In an era of aggressive imperialist manoeuvres, can a debt-stricken nation maintain its sovereignty without provoking the wrath of global powers?

The sinking of an unarmed Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean exposes India’s hollow foreign policy and silent subordination to US-Israeli aggression, threatening regional sovereignty and India’s own strategic autonomy.

Behind the 2026 Bangladesh election lies a struggle over constitutional identity, geopolitical alignment, and class power, revealing how state institutions, civil society networks, and global strategy converged to reshape Bangladesh’s political settlement.

A snowstorm vote, scripted social media praise, and a distorted electoral system converge to consolidate ultra-right power in Japan, revealing how spectacle and structural bias combine to hollow out democratic representation.

Today, Thailand’s political landscape is defined by a three-way struggle between PTP’s disruptive populism, the liberal Peoples Party’s westernised idealism, and Bhumjaithai Party’s reactionary clientelism.

Bombs fell on Caracas. A president kidnapped to New York. From Delhi to Jakarta to Sydney, Asia-Pacific rises in fury—because solidarity against imperialism knows no borders.

The UN hands Gaza to genocide’s architects. A US-led ‘Peace Council,’ an Israel-coordinated armed force—the most brazenly colonial Security Council action since partitioning Palestine in 1947.

While Trump pocketed $350 billion from South Korea and APEC leaders recycled corporate mantras, hundreds gathered in Gyeongju to declare that neither tariff extortion nor neoliberal nostalgia would go unchallenged.

Indonesia’s elites are normalising military control over civilian life — expanding battalions, rewriting laws, and criminalising protest — while defence budgets soar and welfare is militarised. This rollback of Reformasi signals a neofascist economic project…