Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar
This week, Pakistan’s oldest think tank, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. FORSEA co-founder will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.
The British State is Right: Hindutva is an ‘ideology of concern’ in the UK
Leaked Home Office and police reports draw attention to Hindu nationalism in the UK and its potential to undermine social cohesion and democratic values.
Earthquake-hit, war-devastated Myanmar needs a lasting humanitarian ceasefire and the establishment of Myanmar Fund for Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction
FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar government assets in the US frozen by the then President Joe Biden in response to the February 2021 coup.
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.