All Hail Ceasars: Republican democracies die easily
It is a sign of disease when our Congressmen and Senators attempt to honor a president as a Caesar and abandon their duty to defend the Constitution. We do not have many great things to say about the Caesars of (global) human history.
On Trump USA: “Our lesson of oneness has been lost to mainstream Hindu society, but it is not lost to history” & “Hindus for Human Rights is part of a global effort to expose how this chaos machine is being manufactured”
We at Hindus for Human Rights are speaking today as part of a broader global effort to analyze, resist, and expose how this chaos is being manufactured, how it is strategic, and how it is meant to disorient us—to leave us questioning what is real, what is trolling, and what is sheer horror.
On Trump USA: “I am enraged and I am terrified as an American”
An America that atones for its sins, provides reparations, raises children to value diversity of skin color, religion, ethnicity and cultures-at-their best, closes the economic and opportunity gap, and lives as curious neighbors, not suspicious of differences, but inquisitive for new insights. In these days of regression of freedoms, we must put our hand to the plow, or in the dirt, to work for a better world.
International Relations 2.0
Remarks for the FORSEA Marathon Global Event by Mireille Fanon Mendes France, Frantz Fanon Foundation, on 10th March 2025.
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia welcomes Mireille Fanon Mendes France as a comrade to its board
Dr Mireille Fanon Mendes France is a well-known jurist, militant and activist on international law issues. She has served as a United Nations expert on the issues of institutional and structural racism, with particular reference to people of African descent and Africans.
Trump as a bi-product of US-China Relations and his potentially supportive role for Genocidaires. & America: The Steinbeckian Lenny of International Politics
The US is going through the process of myopic degradation of political culture. This is not a matter of Trump as an individual but a structural problem of US domestic and global relations.
It is happening there! Trump USA & Its Dark Consequences for Asia, Europe and Palestine
Twenty-one distinguished scholars, analysts and activists from eleven countries on four continents will share their analyses on how the new Fascist-like policies and reactionary changes which Trump-Vance-Musk oligarchy is pursuing are resulting in the devastating consequences for the world’s peoples and communities, as well as international law, norms and institutions.
Trump and Modi’s relationship headed for tougher times?
If India was hoping to get a bit of Trumpian indulgence because of the past bonding between the two similar-minded leaders and due to India’s strategic utility against China, it was in for a disappointment.
With US backing, Israel has already set in motion de facto annexation of lands in the West Bank
The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.
Thailand Political Landscape and Trends in 2025: Stagnation, Suppression, and Status Quo
In this succinct overview of the state of affairs in his native Thailand in 2025, Jaran Ditapichai, the famed revolutionary and scholar exiled in France, connects the dots among his country's weakened democratic demands from below, the strengthening conservative forces in Thai society, economy and polity, and the lack of concerns among the Thai public in the international affairs.