Asia & the Pacific

Writers support author Kamila Shamsie, denied book prize for defending Palestine

Hundreds of authors have publicly denounced the revocation of a German literary prize, the Nelly Sachs Award for Literature, from…

September 26, 2019

Indonesian fires threaten millions

Over the past few months, fires have destroyed millions of acres of rainforest in Brazil’s Amazon region, normally one of…

September 26, 2019

Thousands reject Modi-Trump racism in Houston

Thousands of people of many nationalities and religions gathered outside the stadium here Sept. 22 to protest the fascist rally…

September 26, 2019

Hong Kong: Make colonialism great again

Posted to lowwagecapitalism.com on Sept. 11, 2019. Sept. 10 -- It is a thoroughly reactionary development when demonstrators carrying U.S.…

September 20, 2019

Protest of India’s rule over Kashmir

Chanting “From Kashmir to Palestine, occupation is a crime,” over 100 people, mostly immigrants from Kashmir, rallied on Sept. 6…

September 14, 2019

Climate crisis cries out for social change

The climate crisis has surged to the forefront of many discussions recently, from mainstream news networks to everyday conversations between…

September 10, 2019

Dialectics of change in Hong Kong: The contradiction of two antagonistic systems

What is the biggest problem that months of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong have exposed? Many people, especially younger…

September 10, 2019

Recontextualizing Gandhi

As a Muslim woman born in a rural village in Gujarat, India, I experienced Gandhi as a figure whom you…

September 5, 2019

Hong Kong: Google censors China

Google stripped away the illusion that the continuing protests in Hong Kong are about democracy when on Aug. 20 the internet…

September 4, 2019

Roots of the Kashmir conflict

The writer is a Muslim woman born in a rural village in Gujarat, India. India, one of the oldest civilizations,…

August 29, 2019