Sinophobia, Lies and Hybrid War

Sinophobia, Lies and Hybrid War

It took one minute for President Trump to introduce a virus at the virtual 75th UN General Assembly, blasting “the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world”. And then it all went downhill. Even as Trump was essentially delivering a campaign speech and could not care less about the multilateral UN, at least the…

Piracy in the Strait of Malacca: an Age-Old Problem Whose Future Is Unclear

Piracy in the Strait of Malacca: an Age-Old Problem Whose Future Is Unclear

The Strait of Malacca, which runs between the Malay Peninsula (Malacca) and Sumatra, is the most convenient maritime route to take between the Indian and Pacific oceans. From time immemorial, it has held tremendous significance for international trade. Even back in ancient times, ports sprang up on the shores of the strait that were visited…

Israel and the Emirates sign the “Abraham Accords”

Israel and the Emirates sign the “Abraham Accords”

The situation in the Middle East has been blocked since the Oslo Accords signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat in 1993. They were supplemented by the Jericho-Gaza Agreement, which recognizes certain prerogatives of the Palestinian Authority, and the Wadi Araba Agreements, which concluded peace between Israel and Jordan. At the time, the Israeli government…

And Then What? – We Daren’t Not Look Into the Abyss

And Then What? – We Daren’t Not Look Into the Abyss

Secular Millenarianism – the belief that some transformative catharsis in history has the power to expunge the crimes and follies of the past – has a long and bloody history. The notion originally owes to religion. Theories of human ‘Progress’ as an upward-trending, linear continuum, inevitably leading to ‘a better human end’, though clothed today…

A US Government-Funded Petition to Rewrite Thailand’s Constitution

A US Government-Funded Petition to Rewrite Thailand’s Constitution

An organization calling itself Internet Law Reform Dialogue or “iLaw” has for over a month now been organizing a petition nationwide at literally every anti-government rally – big or small, at every opposition venue or office headquarters, and at every major university campus calling for the rewriting of Thailand’s constitution.  This campaign included a well-funded…