Category: Featured

Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.


In Bed with Two Genocidal Regimes in the ASEAN Region: The Case of Singapore, the “Switzerland of Southeast Asia”

Running a government is not like running a church, as the 6th President, the late S. R. Nathan, angrily shouted at me some 30 years ago. But running a state should not mean collaborating and profiting from the genocidal regimes in the backyard.

/ November 2, 2022

Singapore: The Shelter for Myanmar Junta’s Arms Dealers, Drug Lords, and Cronies

Watch live: FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Series with guest James Gomez, PhD., Director of the Asia Center, Southeast Asia.

/ October 22, 2022

China and the Human Rights of its Neighbours

FORSEA co-sponsored Talk: "If China gives lethal stability to its neighbours, do the actors outside have no option but to look the other way?"

/ October 18, 2022

New Fascisms in Europe: Poland’s Far Right Problem

Watch live: FORSEA's Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Series with guest Rafal Pankowski, professor, the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland and author of ‘Neo-Fascism in Western Europe: A Study in Ideology’.

/ October 17, 2022

လေ့လာမိသမျှ ချင်းမျိုးနွယ်စုကြားက ပဋိပက္ခ နှင့် အကျိုးဆက်များ

ဘယ်ကရောက်လာမှန်းမသိတဲ့ "ချင်း" ဆိုတဲ့နာမည်က အင်္ဂလိပ်ကိုလိုနီခတ်ကာလမှာ စပေါ်လာတော့ ကိုယ့်မျိုးနွယ်စုနာမည်နဲ့ ဒေသနာမည်တွေ ဘေးချိတ်ကာ ချင်း အဖြစ်ခံယူဖို့ တွန့်တွန့်ဆုတ်ဆုတ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ကြတယ်။ ယနေ့ ချင်းအများစု "ချင်း"အဖြစ်ခံယူကြတယ်ဆိုတာ လွယ်လွယ်နဲ့ နေ့ချင်းညချင်း ဖြစ်လာတာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။

/ October 13, 2022

Saving the Native White Swedes: The Return of Swedish Fascism in 2022

FORSEA Dialogue LIVE on Democratic Struggles Series with distinguished guest Arash Sedighi, PhD, teacher, Screenplay writer and co-founder of the BAME+ podcast network.

/ October 5, 2022

After Mussolini: The Second Coming of Fascism in Italy (?)

Watch live: FORSEA's Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Series with guest Michael Leonardi, author of "Introducing Georgia Meloni: How the US opened the door for Fascism's Return to Italy".

/ October 1, 2022

Survivors of Khmer Rouge Genocide and their Need for Mental Health Support

Watch live: FORSEA's Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Series with guest Farina So, Principal Deputy Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and author of "The Hijab of Cambodia: Memories of Cham Muslim Women after the Khmer Rouge".

/ September 29, 2022

Western Myanmar as a Genocide Triangle: Myanmar’s Military-State, Separatist Rakhine Nationalists and Rohingya Genocide Victims

The increasingly vocal demand by the separatist Arakan Army (AA) for international recognition of it as a (quasi)-state actor with which the United Nations and foreign governments should do business with, needs to be checked against the dark record of the anti-Rohingya racism and criminal responsibility of its popular base, namely Rakhine nationalists, in the slow-burning genocide of Rohingyas since the late 1970's.

/ September 25, 2022

The Exceptionality of the Powerless and the Banality of Power: Japan’s Rohingya Community and the Japanese State

By imposing sanctions on Japanese businesses that associate with the criminal state of Myanmar, the U.S. and Europe can make Japan and its industries pay the price for the desires hidden behind their pretensions of peace and prosperity.

/ September 12, 2022