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” This settler/colonizer stuff also plays-off Soviet and Chinese Communist cold war themes, when the Soviets and Chicoms portrayed themselves as would-be vanquishers of Western oppressor colonial powers acting on behalf of the colonized oppressed. [read post]
16 May 2024, 10:54 am by Josh Blackman
Mind you that Judge Ezra is actually a visiting judge from the District of Hawaii, or what Attorney General Sessions called a "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific. [read post]
15 May 2024, 6:29 am by centerforartlaw
By Harper Johnson and Suzanna Neal Museums in the United States, whether they be federally, state, or privately owned (including those run by universities), are ever-faced with claims that items in their care have incomplete or illicit provenance.[1] This is reflective of a broader trend among museums in the Western world, which are facing more frequent and stronger calls to repatriate works that were looted during colonial periods or were otherwise unethically obtained.[2] This article… [read post]
13 May 2024, 8:54 am by Evan George
The rule seeks to maximize protections in the western Arctic—some of the most ecologically valuable land in the country. [read post]
5 May 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The researchers chose to focus on the Santa Barbara Channel in part because it encompasses Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and a foraging ground for the federally endangered northeastern Pacific blue whale. [read post]
3 May 2024, 6:06 am by Lisa Homel
With limited resources, Asia-firsters maintain, the United States must make choices, and focusing primarily on Indo-Pacific security is the right one. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 11:45 am by Unknown
The OA items herein were previously referenced on either this blog or the Forced Migration Library blog as of 30 April 2024.Bronze OA:"Displaced and Destitute: The Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024)- Authors (2) = Bangladesh (lead), Japan"Lessons from Colombia’s Response to Venezuelan Forced Displacement," Albany Law Review, vol. 87, no. 1 (2024)- Authors (4) = US (2, incl. lead), Mexico… [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 5:30 pm by William A. Jacobson
Opens Investigation Into Western Kentucky U Race-Based Scholarship Challenged by Equal Protection Project first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 5:05 am by Beatrice Yahia
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DEVELOPMENTS Russia will intensify attacks on Western weapons stored in Ukraine, Russia’s defense minister warned yesterday. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 5:18 am by Beatrice Yahia
” Officials say they hope the combined Western diplomatic pressure will avert the need to take escalatory action that could break a fragile U.S. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 2:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
PeskinManifest Destiny’s Fortunes in the Western Pacific: The First and Last United States Consul to Guam, Samuel J. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 5:27 am by Beatrice Yahia
Netanyahu “should not be allowed to drag the United States and other Western powers into a war with Iran,” Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said yesterday. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 5:30 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
The historic town of Lahaina – located on Maui’s western coast – suffered extensive destruction and was nearly wiped out. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Beatrice Yahia
Biden yesterday pledged closer relations with Japan and the Philippines to counter China’s rising influence in the Pacific. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 7:52 am by Alex Wang
” Yet, perhaps surprisingly to Western observers, there remains space for civil society groups to operate. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 5:24 am by Beatrice Yahia
 Nigerian students taken by gunmen in a mass abduction in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month have been freed “unharmed,” officials say. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 5:02 am by Beatrice Yahia
Edem Wosornu, the director of humanitarian operations, told the Security Council that one-third of Sudan’s population – 18 million people – already face acute food insecurity, and that catastrophic hunger levels could be reached in some areas of western Darfur by May. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 4:58 am by Beatrice Yahia
Wang then visited Israel last Thursday and met with the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s head of Asia and Pacific Bureau. [read post]