Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
FORSEA Co-founder Maung Zarni on Myanmar Junta’s 3-Phased Elections
Myanmar's widely reviled military junta is holding "phased general elections", amidst the ever expanding military and political conflicts triggered by its coup in February 2021.
The Nobel Foundation breaches Alfred Nobel’s Will for Peace: The 1976 N. Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire joins Julian Assange in speaking truth to power
‘I fully support this great action of Julian Assange which speaks truth to power. Indeed Alfred Nobel's will is NOT for warmaking but peacemaking and the Nobel Committee is actually acting illegally by ignoring Nobel's wishes".
Civilization has Trumped the State Paradigm
There are powerful people pushing for the intertwining of Russian, Israeli, and US interests. These shadowy interests clearly reflect … civilizational thinking about global politics.
Humanity is Under the Rubble of 500 years old Racial Capitalism, Unipolar or Multipolar
Whatever the name of the state (or even states), US or BRICS, the logic of Capital has locked the policy options of these political entities and, consequently, the fate of humans in perpetual misery while ever increasing – not reversing – the ecological threat to our collective existence as a species.
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.
To Know Genocide is to Oppose It at Any Cost to Self: Burmese Activist Reflects on the Gaza Tribunal
To know genocide is to confront it in every conceivable way we humanly can: name it, oppose it, help end it and document it for posterity. For it is an affront to every human with a conscience and compassion.
A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza
The unfolding savagery of the collective West in Gaza far exceeds what men in antiquity did to one another or inflicted on respective enemy populations.