Prashad and Chak Whitewash Colonialism in Most Banal of Terms in Monthly Review Article | New Bloom Magazine A recent article by Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak in the Monthly Review proves another attempt by the campist left to whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs by the Chinese government…

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China Has Quietly Become a Dominant Player in Natural Gas China is now the world’s largest buyer of imported natural gas—a development with important implications for climate and geopolitics.

In just over a decade, China has gone from a minor player in global gas markets to the world’s largest importer of LNG.

@nithincoca.com explains what that shift means for major exporters, for developing countries in Asia and Africa, and for the climate:

We didn't deserve this day.

Israeli airstrike near school kills at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza, medics say According to Medics and Residents, Some Palestinians Had Clashed With Members of an Israeli-backed Militia When Drones Fired Two Missiles Into the Area. In a Separate Incident, Israeli Forces Fired at...

Don't forget Gaza: Israeli Airstrike Near School Kills at Least 10 Palestinians in Gaza, Medics Say; WHO Staffer Also Killed www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-04...

Hiring for a journalism assistant and got way too many applications. Too many cover letters have the same exact format, with bullet points. Is this how AI writes cover letters?

Women's Day, Minus the Women  - Lingua Sinica On the eve of International Women's Day this month, China shut down at least ten WeChat accounts — part of a widening censorship campaign tied to Beijing's push to reverse a record-low birth rate.

On the eve of International Women's Day this month, China shut down at least ten WeChat accounts — part of a widening censorship campaign tied to Beijing's push to reverse a record-low birth rate. lingua-sinica.org/womens-day-m...

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

In our latest piece, the Unfiltered team sat down with Unfiltered journalist member Joan Bailey, and two of our supporters, Rich Bailey and Matt Noyes about their responses to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in their hometowns in Portage, Wisconsin and Colorado Springs, Colorado […]

Graph showing how fast democracy has declined in the USA compared to five prominent cases of autocratization in the last 25 years. The U.S. line show a sharp drop over just two years, while it took Hungary over four years, Serbia eight years, and both India and Türkiye about a decade and Russia almost 14 years to reach the same total drop.

#DR26 The U.S. democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times. Within only one year, the USA’s score on the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index (LDI) has declined by 24 %, from 0.75 in 2024 to 0.57 in 2025.
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#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky

Statement on the Passage of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” - Tibet Action Institute March 12, 2026 Contact: Lhadon Tethong  I  lhadon@tibetaction.net  I  +1 917 418 4181 Statement on the Passage of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” Boston – Today the Chinese govern...

“The Chinese government just passed a law authorizing genocide in Tibet,” said Lhadon Tethong, Director of Tibet Action Institute.

Read full statement: tibetaction.net/authorizing-...

Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'? A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.

By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. [...]", the Campaign for Uyghurs wrote...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Attended a #energy conference in #Japan recently. Of the speakers.

16 Men
9 Japanese Men
3 Women
1 (!) Japanese women

When you have more white male speakers than women from your own country, there's a problem.

It is. Have a Chinese-Malaysian friend who will complain about Malay-dominance and support the opposition in #Malaysia but willingly support the ruling party in #Singapore, where he now lives, even claiming they don't discriminate against minorities there...

#Indonesia provides another contrast, with Christians and Hindu minority mostly supporting the equivalent of Congress, PDI-D, and #Islam is seen as incompatible with leftism (especially Communism, which remains banned)

It's majoritarianism vs being part of a minority, little to do with religion.

China’s Luckin Coffee acquires Blue Bottle China’s largest coffee chain continues its aggressive westward expansion.

Wow, Blue Bottle Coffee is now Chinese-owned. I used to live near its tiny initial coffee stall in #SF (and even then thought it was overrated).

The coffee chain that stole its idea from a #Kyoto cafe, sold out #Nestle, is now being sold to #LuckinCoffee

www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

🚨 Chinese court sentenced #PaldenYeshe, monk of Kardze Monastery, to 6 years in January — just now coming to light. No formal charge disclosed. Sichuan police detained him in 2021, reportedly for teaching #Tibetan to children.
Via www.thetibetpost.com/news/tibet/c...

Moreover, of the 30 players on the Taiwanese roster, 17 are of #Indigenious heritage.

GO TEAM TAIWAN!!

Amis — sa‘icelen!
Atayal — lokah!
Truku — kbiyax!
Bunun — malmananu!
Paiwan — kisamuljai!

I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote these days.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum - Café Pacific | David Robie Asia Pacific Report: A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend solidarity forum in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau this wee...

A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua is screening as a world premiere in NZ this weekend. The 90min feature, Pesta Babi (“Pig Feast”), is about deforestation and militarisation.
davidrobie.nz/2026/03/deva...

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report Labor abuses including violence, debt bondage and withheld wages and medical care, overfishing, shark finning, marine mammal killings: A new report exposes bad practices and a weak regulatory…

A new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation alleges forced labor, shark finning and illegal fishing on Chinese vessels targeting jumbo flying squid in the Southeast Pacific.

The findings draw on interviews with 81 fishers, mainly Indonesians who worked on 60 vessels between 2021 and 2025.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Hong Kong jailed my dad to stop me speaking out, says activist Pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok's father has been jailed for eight months for a national security offence.

The 8-month sentence for Kwok Yin-sang is a clear retaliatory attack on his daughter Anna Kwok for her pro-democracy activism.

It’s the latest proof that national security laws are a tool for silencing free expression and dissent – not for protecting Hong Kong.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The father of wanted activist Anna Kwok has been jailed for 8 months after he sought to cancel an insurance policy in her name, an offence under the city's homegrown security law. 🔗 buff.ly/1QjNL21

“When Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they Tasered and beat him, then arrested him, Macaluso said.”

He didn’t speak any English. And he used the curtain rod as a walking stick.

Even just a tiny bit of empathy could’ve saved his life 😞

It was only a matter of time: transnational repression to support #China overseas business interests, this time in #Australia.

www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

I think it's also the type of rice - long grain, masoori, or basmati rice is much easier to cook than more finicky short-grain varieties used in East Asia.

One of the biggest reasons now that I think I may stay as a freelancer and not job hunt is that I don't want to be forced to use some terrible #bigtech "productivity" suite like #Google docs or #Microsoft Office365 or Teams everyday.

Mainland police are putting pressue on Chinese delivery riders working overseas in Sydney, including targeting their parents still in the Mainland, warning them to stop protesting in Australia for better pay and work conditions or face arrests upon returning to China.

All you people who claim you can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or #Netflix subscriptions, right?