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Americas 5 months ago

Trump says lost 'sovereignty' in New York after Mamdani win

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States had lost "sovereignty" after New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor.

Editorial 6 months ago

Stepping out of the red shadow

For decades, the red scare has been used to silence opposition, discredit progressives and stigmatize memory itself.

Politics 6 months ago

PREMIUM
'Red terror' continues to haunt Indonesia

Six decades after the 1965 purge, the phantom of communism still haunts the nation, with the government and the police continuing to invoke its memory to instill fear.

Politics 10 months ago

PREMIUM
Fears grow that dark past may be rewritten with government's new history books

The 10-volume series would have an Indonesia-centric narrative and aims "to reinvent the Indonesian identity," Culture Minister Fadli Zon told Reuters in an interview.

Americas 10 months ago

China, Colombia sign Belt and Road cooperation pact

Burgeoning commerce in recent years has helped grow Beijing's influence in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of strategic significance for the United States.

Academia 1 year ago

PREMIUM
ASEAN has a better chance in any US-China trade war

As ASEAN has been able to overcome many issues in the past, often by learning from the best practices of the West and itself, it stands to reason that ASEAN has the diplomatic depth to handle complex issues.

Academia 1 year ago

PREMIUM
‘Genjer-genjer’ and the historical burden it carries

Universal adaptability explains long history of Genjer-genjer, beginning with its composer, Muhammad Arief's original intention which was to depict the story of the misery of the people during Japanese colonialism.

Europe 2 years ago

Russia communist asks for probe into West's possible involvement in Stalin's death

"The party appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin," RIA cited the chairman of the party, Sergei Malinkovich as saying.

Americas 2 years ago

Chile, where Kissinger backed coup, remembers his 'moral wretchedness'

"A man has died whose historical brilliance never managed to conceal his moral wretchedness," Chile's ambassador to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdes, wrote on X, the former Twitter.

Academia 2 years ago

PREMIUM
Reexamining blame in the 1965 tragedy, beyond the PKI and Sukarno

The 1965 tragedy is a complex historical context continues to resonate today, and acknowledging past wrongs is the way to move past one of the darkest periods in Indonesian history so the country can heal.

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