Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7 states failed to release a ...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened ...
“Who will help the Muslims of India?” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) As anti-Muslim violence continued to roil the Indian city of Delhi Wednesday, observers from inside the country and around the world warned that ...
“Neither the Indian political leadership nor the ‘deep state’ seems to grasp that the geopolitics of the South Asian region is transforming with far-reaching consequences.” The manner in which U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is ...
“We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot. And he told me we’ll have 7 million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, ...
“Australia, writes Rick Sterling, should be proud of its three native sons that were willing to speak truth to power no matter the consequences.” (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across ...
China accused the US of excessive fear-mongering over the coronavirus outbreak with travel restrictions and evacuations, as Chinese stocks plummeted to their worst day in years over fears of the virus. On Monday, the Chinese ...
“There is no secret that Putin is the de facto dictator in Moscow and there is no expectation that the status quo should change when his term concludes in 2024. His annual state-of-the-nation speech Wednesday ...
“I was continually hit on the head with iron rods. … They were about to lynch us.” With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras ...
“They are pissing inside the tent and that’s unusual. It’s evidence of how high tensions are within the family over climate change.” Division within the Murdoch media empire intensified on Tuesday after Rupert’s younger son ...
Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six ...
“We learned a bitter lesson in 2003, and we do not want that to happen again.“ A new illness is making its rounds in China and while it has caused no known deaths, memories of ...
The already devastating Australian wildfires are on pace to be the worst environmental disaster of the last century. Updated figures from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science have now doubled the impact of Australia’s ...
“The fires have burned so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, but there is such a big area now that is still on fire and still ...
Despite multiple warnings that Australia would face “catastrophic fires,” Australia consistently ranks as one of the worst countries on climate change policy. Australia’s worst bushfire season on record intensified on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people ...
Russian and Israeli media outlets reported a fistfight broke out between US and Russian troops stationed near each other in Syria. (By MEMO) A number of Russian soldiers were badly beaten and airlifted to a ...
A new report shows that during Modi’s tenure there have been about 200 documented cases of attacks on journalists who tell the truth about the Modi government. Every day and in every part of India, hundreds ...
Security forces shutting down internet access and detaining demonstrators as dissidents swept up and at least three people killed. (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The crackdown by Indian authorities against those protesting the country’s new ...
Protests against India’s new Citizenship Act are now ongoing in every part of India, with a cross-section of society outraged by the religious implications of this law. On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner ...
Four people have already been killed by police in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, seen by many as a step towards establishing India as a Hindu majority country. (By Peoples Dispatch) Across India, tens ...
(By Shane Cronin, The Conversation) Five people have been confirmed dead, 31 remain in hospital with injuries and eight are still missing after sudden volcanic eruptions on Whakaari/White Island off the east coast of New ...
“This is one of the most shocking discoveries I’ve made in decades of radiation surveys.” The troubling discovery was supposed to remain under wraps, until Greenpeace Japan determined on December 4 that it had no ...
Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia. Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest, add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops and tigers ...
Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...
The Bring Assange Home Parliamentary Group currently comprises 11 MPs from across party lines. Most of them have argued that the extradition of Assange would be an attack on Australia’s sovereignty. (By Peoples Dispatch) The ...
The NBA is being accused of prioritizing profit over human rights issues after a tweet by NBA general manager Daryl Morey angered Chinese government officials. The NBA is facing criticism for apologizing to China for ...
The bill legalizing abortion was passed by state legislature in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state where it was criminalized. (By Peoples Dispatch) After over 70 hours of debate and much drama, the ...
The second Modi regime sworn in this year has demonstrated in just three months what we can expect – a relentless assault on the foundations of Indian democracy. There were some notable differences between the ...
“Russia has traditionally considered Central Asia, including Tajikistan, as its sphere of political-military influence.” Despite being engaged in an ongoing struggle for influence in Central Asia, Russia joined China and a handful of other Asian ...
Around 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims were determined “untrustworthy” by Chinese officials and scheduled for detention and reeducation in a massive internment camp system. (By Darren Byler, The Conversation) The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ...
“The government is a liar. He was not hit by a stone but they killed him.” “Shortly after a recent parliamentary vote in India to remove the special autonomy status of Jammu and Kashmir, Human ...
While the full withdrawal of the extradition bill that sparked record-breaking protests across Hong Kong is highly significant, many activists still condemn it as “too little, too late.” “Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has said ...
Following a string of Myanmar government crackdowns on outspoken critics, one Myanmar Baptist leader faced a military lawsuit after a 40-second meeting with President Trump. “Reverend Samson, you want to tell, briefly, your story?” Sam ...
It serves Indian interests at this point not to identify too closely with the Russian regional and global policies, which are increasingly in a confrontational mode vis-a-vis the U.S. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit ...
Amid a trade war with China, the U.S. has conducted its first joint military exercise with ASEAN nations in the coveted South China Sea. On Monday, Sept. 2, the U.S. and 10 ASEAN member countries ...
An update to Telegram, planned for release over the next few days, will allow protesters to prevent mainland Chinese and Hong Kong authorities from discovering their identities in the app’s large group chats. “Telegram, a ...
“It’s difficult at this stage to see how there can be a deal or at least a good deal.” New tariffs on more than $110 billion in Chinese imports took effect Sunday, a sharp escalation ...
Millions of Kashmiris continue to suffer under the military lock-down imposed by the Indian government. The situation is particularly critical for patients, women and school-going children. (By Umer Beigh, Peoples Dispatch) The curfew-like restrictions in ...
“There isn’t neutral, reliable media that can build a bridge between the two sides and win the trust of both.” As Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill have entered the twelfth week, misleading ...
The longstanding dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has reached a new fever-pitch in recent weeks. In May of this year, Indian Narendra Modi won his reelection bid for prime minister, and now his ...
“The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.” President Donald Trump privately expressed interest in buying Greenland, the world’s largest island, to White House aides and advisers, as the ...
North Korea has turned to renewal energy workarounds to offset international sanctions on fossil fuels and faulty hydroelectric power. While the international community has condemned North Korea as a backward and isolated state, it turns ...
As each day passes, Kashmir resembles the West Bank. On August 5, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament. The bill divides the Indian State into ...
Students as young as Grade 5 expressed a wish “to study hard to repay” the company, and many thought “the tobacco company is kind.” (By Jennifer Fang, The Conversation) Would you send your child to ...
“Economic analysis suggests that bilateral trade wars are unwinnable in an interconnected world. By firing his latest tariff salvo against China, Trump has further raised the stakes in an increasingly damaging dispute. And America is ...
In an effort to quell the record-breaking protests across Hong Kong, China released a video threatening violence against protestors who refuse to “fall back.” In late July Citizen Truth reported the following concerning the continuous ...
President Trump announced another round of tariffs on Chinese goods on Thursday, the latest development in an escalating trade war between the world’s greatest economies. In a series of tweets, Trump said his administration would ...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has brought lucrative Chinese investment into Cambodia, but at what cost for locals? Excavators carefully scooped piles of bent steel and rubble, moving it aside under the floodlights surrounding a ...