Rasti Delizo, an international affairs analyst, longtime socialist activist in the Philippines and former vice president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers) speaks to Alex Bainbridge about rising militarism in the Asia-Indo-Pacific region.
TOKYO Behind the Japanese government’s policies prioritizing a huge military buildup and the promotion of nuclear power generation lies the huge donations made by corporations in the relevant industries to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Under the title “The war in Ukraine and how to stop it,” the IYSSE shed light on the historical, economic and political causes of the war and an international socialist strategy to end it.
Early last week, the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) launched a “cross-media image campaign.” Like earlier media campaigns, it glorifies militarism and nationalism, but this time aims even more openly to prepare the public for a new world war and to recruit the necessary cannon fodder.
South Korea’s far-right President Yoon Suk Yeol is rushing South Korea headlong into the middle of the new Cold War that the United States is waging against China, argue Dae-Han Song and Alice S Kim.