Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Under the Shadow of Violence: Are the Banyamulenge Experiencing a Slow Genocide?
Because of colonial legacies and misrepresentations, members of this community are categorized as “foreigners and invaders”. Targeted by state actors, militias, and local and foreign armed groups, violence against the Banyamulenge has led to forced displacement, destruction of their economy and livelihoods and widespread killings.