Category: Featured
Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.

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.

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.

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.

The “White Settler” State Mentality Destroying the World for Everyone
The idea that the white settler can do anything with what is found on "their" land has today resulted in planetary climatic consequences. There must be a fundamental re-evaluation of core American values to dismantle the systematic grip of white settlerism in the United States.

Against Donald Trump’s Intent to Turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East”: Palestinian Resisters Dissect Israel’s Illegal Occupation and Washington’s Criminal Patronage
US President Donald Trump’s 4 Feb. official announcement to deport 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza signals his intent to commit a war crime under international law and amounts to the violation of the Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention regarding the Occupying Power’s legal obligations.

Amid their liberation struggle, Arakan Army (AA) of Myanmar tout Israel as their role model while breaching International Court of Justice Provisional Measures Order #1
Myanmar’s future remains extremely bleak as the Arakan Army perpetrates international crimes while the rest of the anti-junta armed resistance organizations look the other way.