From the March-April 2020 issue of News & Letters Editor’s note: This is the print version of a longer essay. Peacenews.org columnist Joseph Daher’s study, Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019), investigates the resilience of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the face of a popular revolution that began nine years ago, in March ...

“If you took pictures of the detainees now, you would see people who looked like those that are in the Caesar photographs, only they would be alive … The ones who died are the lucky ones.” ~ former detainee

Now more than ever nonviolent energy is urgently required to respond to the world of hurt that the COVID-19 tsunami is leaving in its wake. ~ Ken Butigan

What could possibly link the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chernobyl, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history? At first glance, not much, except that the Chinese term —- (the transcription of Chernobyl appears in simplified Chinese) has surged on Chinese social media when discussing the outbreak of COVID-19, the flu caused by the coronavirus first ...

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'The internet provided a space for religious and cultural expression, but then later it became evidence of their ‘religious extremism.’' ~ Darren Byler

China’s mass detention of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities living in its western region of Xinjiang has sparked alarm and condemnation across the world.

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Why are protests in Hong Kong turning violent?