Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory
FORSEA’s Maung Zarni tells a story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s exilic politics of 50-years and the failed democratic transition which the February coup in 2021 derailed.
Hollowed Out “Never Again!” and the Collapse of Europe’s Moral Imagination
Europe’s moral language remains backward-looking, Neanderthal and categorical. Former perpetrators, Europe does not lack lessons from genocides. It lacks the courage to apply them.
Rejecting Hindu Council UK’s “Warning” to the Government about Islamophobia
An organisation with Hindu supremacist and anti-Muslim ideological beliefs opposing efforts to tackle Islamophobia is unsurprising. What is troubling is a national newspaper amplifying this organisation as the sole representative of British Hindus.
When Outrage Is Selective: Art, Race, and the Limits of (The West’s) Moral Universality
“Why is only some violence deemed boycott worthy?" is the question that must be raised in the face of Supreme Hypocrisy of the West, with its collapsing moral universalism.
FORSEA Co-founder Maung Zarni on Myanmar Junta’s 3-Phased Elections
Myanmar's widely reviled military junta is holding "phased general elections", amidst the ever expanding military and political conflicts triggered by its coup in February 2021.
The Nobel Foundation breaches Alfred Nobel’s Will for Peace: The 1976 N. Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire joins Julian Assange in speaking truth to power
‘I fully support this great action of Julian Assange which speaks truth to power. Indeed Alfred Nobel's will is NOT for warmaking but peacemaking and the Nobel Committee is actually acting illegally by ignoring Nobel's wishes".
Civilization has Trumped the State Paradigm
There are powerful people pushing for the intertwining of Russian, Israeli, and US interests. These shadowy interests clearly reflect … civilizational thinking about global politics.
Humanity is Under the Rubble of 500 years old Racial Capitalism, Unipolar or Multipolar
Whatever the name of the state (or even states), US or BRICS, the logic of Capital has locked the policy options of these political entities and, consequently, the fate of humans in perpetual misery while ever increasing – not reversing – the ecological threat to our collective existence as a species.
Prisons as Sites of National Reconciliation or Continuing Hells
In Vietnam, prison, a colonial and wartime instrument of brutality, has been turned into a memorial museum contributing to national identity-building and reconciliation. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s prisons continue to operate as spaces of systematic violence under successive authoritarian regimes.
The Power to Rape with Impunity: US Imperialism in Asia
The following piece was originally published under the title of “From Sovereignty to Commodity: Philippine “Sovereignty”, U. S. Troops and Filipino Women”, in the journal of Migrante Australia, BATINGAW #78, October 2025. The author, a former naval officer in the United States Navy, had the tour of duty in the Asia and Pacific Region in the 1950’s.
