Visible Minorities: Revolution is Due
Democracies happen because of a Middle Class, but you have to keep it fed and watered. America is no longer doing that.
Democracies happen because of a Middle Class, but you have to keep it fed and watered. America is no longer doing that.
Yes, there is a new far-right party in Japan. But at this point, the media hype about Sanseito is sensationalism, as what it’s offering is neither new nor well-planned.
Short-sighted criticisms about Japan being “overtouristed” may spoil things. Don’t let the debate backfire into racialized policymaking.
What happened was less a matter of support for Trump and more a worldwide repudiation of incumbents.
How Japan treats its non-citizen residents and diverse communities is a bellwether for how future neofascist demagogues in other countries will treat their minority voices and views.
Could the Harris campaign be a case for a new playbook streamlining the wasteful American political process?
Include foreign residents as part of the official Japan population and give us official data for just how diverse Japan actually is.
In a tacit admission that US influence in the Islamic world is in freefall, the Biden administration is openly seeking the People’s Republic of China’s help in extricating itself from its self-inflicted fiascos in Gaza and Yemen.
Yemen’s Houthi movement has been in the spotlight recently for its military actions in the Red Sea; multiple commercial ships have been targeted in an attempt to warn Western powers, in particular, the United States and the United Kingdom, to end their support for the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.
The limited impact of economic sanctions on Russia represents an additional data point proving that the West, even when relatively united, no longer rules the world. Indeed, its losing streak in major 21st century military conflicts continues unbroken, and it serially overestimates its ability to shape global affairs.