Month: November 2025
Prisons as Sites of National Reconciliation or Continuing Hells
In Vietnam, prison, a colonial and wartime instrument of brutality, has been turned into a memorial museum contributing to national identity-building and reconciliation. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s prisons continue to operate as spaces of systematic violence under successive authoritarian regimes.
The Power to Rape with Impunity: US Imperialism in Asia
The following piece was originally published under the title of “From Sovereignty to Commodity: Philippine “Sovereignty”, U. S. Troops and Filipino Women”, in the journal of Migrante Australia, BATINGAW #78, October 2025. The author, a former naval officer in the United States Navy, had the tour of duty in the Asia and Pacific Region in the 1950’s.
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts, with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.
Reading “Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience” at the British Parliament
The dying Western Civilization (or “The West”) has not learned a thing during its 500-years of failed attempts to subjugate the Global Majority: The elite or rulers may submit, but the people never surrender to the invading colonizers. Palestine will be free.