from the South China Morning Post: For the crime of mentioning the existence of the 1940s East Turkestan Republic in a previously state sanctioned public school textbook, Sattar Sawut the former head of the Xinjiang education department has been given a suspended sentence of death for publishing “separatism” that led to the incitement of terrorism …
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The world of academia has long been plagued by an unfortunate tendency of overspecialization. For example, economists tend to stick strictly to their discipline and know next to nothing about history. Conversely, it’s mostly true of historians that they know next to nothing about sound economics. To make matters worse, specialization and ever more narrower …
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from Reuters: As part of the ongoing war between the state of Burma (which the military dictatorship has been demanding be referred to as “Myanmar”) and a multitude of ethnic minority groups who wish to leave the central state, the Burmese Army has bombed a Karen village, killing at least 2 civilians and wounding 2 …
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Welcome or welcome back to springtime of nations! It’s time for another worthy struggle for independence for self determination and a push against the centralizing power of the state. The fate of the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province of China has been a hot topic now for years. The Chinese Communist government has been …
Welcome! or welcome back, to Springtime of Nations. With another week comes another worthy struggle for self determination and a push against the centralizing power of the state. Today we turn our focus from Africa to Asia, and the recently concluded conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Thousands of people have died over the course of …
Welcome! or welcome back, to Springtime of Nations. With another week comes another worthy struggle for self determination and a push against the centralizing power of the state. This is our first secessionist movement that takes place in the western world, albeit on its fringes. We’re talking about the Republic of Kosovo today, which is …
Let’s take a look at overseas libertarianism, specifically in Europe. This essay will only explore radical right-libertarian movements, although the European continent has many strains of right-liberal and left-libertarian thought extant throughout it. The Liberal and Radical parties of continental Europe had traditionally been far more laissez faire prior to the turn of the 19th …
You may not have heard of the autonomous administration of north and east Syria, or even its more common name Rojava, but if you’ve watched even mainstream news for the last 8 or so years you’ve probably heard of the fighters of Syrian Kurdistan. This ethno-region has had de facto autonomy since 2013, created out …
From the BBC: “Witnesses say Girmay Gebru, who works for BBC Tigrinya, was taken along with four other people from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle. Mr Girmay is reported to have been taken to a military camp in Mekelle. The BBC is yet to establish the reason for his detention, but has expressed …
