South-Eastern Asia and Pacific: Trends and Forecast for 2016
In 2015, Australia and Oceania, as well as South-East Asia, were still influenced by the processes specific to the Asia-Pacific region. Two major forces, US and China, are fighting for influence in...
View ArticleTrans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): A World-System Analysis
Wan FayhsalThe President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, in his brief sojourn to Malaysia last November made an interesting statement on the hotly debated Trans Pacific Partnership...
View ArticleInstability In Indonesia: Is It Inevitable? Part III
Andrew KorybkoAll told, there are seven pressure points inside Indonesia that could be organically activated or externally provoked either separately or in synchronization in order to destabilize the...
View ArticleTPPA Signing Protest in Wellington
Robert KellyAt midday today over three hundred people gathered in the lee of the Cenotaph in Wellington to protest the signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. TPPA
View ArticleNorth Korean Satellite and Sovereignty
Launching the North Korean satellite seriously alarmed the whole world. This action was condemned not only by the representatives of the United States and South Korea, but Russia and China that...
View ArticleJapan & State Impulse. Part 1
Marcelo Gullo If we consider a state impulse to be all the policies made by a State to create or increase and of the elements that make up the power of that State, there is no room for doubt that Japan...
View ArticleJapan & State Impulse: Part 2
Marcelo Gullo When the State retired from the management of the large enterprises it had created, these went on to be managed by the families of those who had collaborated with the government in the...
View ArticleJapan & State Impulse: Part 3
Marcelo Gullo In 1945 Japan suffers the bad luck it had escaped a century before: it iwas invaded by a foreign power, the same one that had forced it, from 1853 on, to open itself to the world. For the...
View ArticleThe Thai Polity, State, and International Relations
Sichon JantoranitHistorically, the Thai polity has never been similar to Western democratic countries. Most Marxist scholars categorize Thailand under Marx’s notion of the Asiatic mode of production...
View ArticleTime to turn towards Russia and China
Chayapha PhunnajanthoToday the Russia-ASEAN summit is going to its end. Thai geopolitical expert Sichon Jantoranit explains the prospects of her country’s further cooperation with Russia
View ArticleBehind Abe’s slap down of Obama at the G-7 summit
Yoichi ShimatsuThe grandiose program to restore Japan as a world power is falling exceedingly short of the mark. The combination of shrinking demographics, economic stagnation and burgeoning public...
View ArticleJockeying for Jakarta: Indonesia between Multipolarity and US hegemony
Daahireeto MohamudThe global geopolitical landscape has been changing dramatically since at least 2011, the so called Arab spring, the proxy war on Syria, the Ukrainian crisis (with Crimea re-united...
View ArticleThe day of Real Australia
Alexander DuginToday, Australia celebrated the vastly important Mabo Day.
View ArticlePhilippines wants a multipolar world without the US' dictatorship
Jose Maria SisonPresident Duterte understood the anti-imperialistic position of his teacher (me). It is an anti-imperialistic and democratic position. I advocate a new type of democratic revolution -...
View ArticleShinzo Abe - the Japanese hawk
Viacheslav ZimoninShinzo Abe is already on his third term as the prime minister of Japan. Yes, he is a hawk. His policy has an anti-American accent. He wants to turn Japan into an independent country,...
View ArticlePhilippines peace talks with Communist rebels delayed
Jose Maria SisonThe Philippines government panel peace talks with communist rebels has again decided to postpone the resumption of formal negotiations, pushing this back to August 20th or 27th. The...
View ArticleToday is Hiroshima day: remember the victims of the US state terror
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View ArticleTomomi Inada - the Japanese Joan of Arc
For the second time in the history of the land of the Rising Sun, a woman become Japan's defense minister. On August 3rd this post was appointed to Tomomi Inada - ideologically conservative politician...
View ArticleThe American Kraken is stretching its tentacles to the South China Sea
Morris Herman People say they the conflict in the South China Sea is about the resources. I’m not certain that it is true. All the conflicts and wars that America is involved in are said to be about...
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