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Thailand Coup
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 1:40 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Army Chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha staged a coup on Thursday (May 22), "taking over powers" in this Southeast Asian nation and locking up several top political leaders, sparking fears of a violent backlash by thousands of Thais demanding a return to ... More >>
Thailand's General Declares Martial Law
Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 4:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Hours after declaring martial law on Tuesday (May 20), Army Chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha asked where Thailand's weak elected government was hiding, joked about further restricting the media, and denied he was plotting his second coup. More >>
Thailand's Guilty Prime Minister is Toppled
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 2:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra waved farewell on Wednesday (May 7) after a court ruled she illegally demoted and promoted officials, but her popular party moved to fill the vacuum by nominating her commerce minister to be Thailand's ... More >>
USAID's "Technological Mercenaries" Deceive Cubans
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 1:55 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used "technological mercenaries" in a dumb, secret, illegal assault against Cuba's government and unsuspecting population, comparable to the strategy of deceptive Nazi propaganda, according to Cuban Ambassador ... More >>
The Act of Killing and Washington's Secret Files
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 5:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Encouraged by the international success of his nonfiction film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer is now pushing Washington to publicly expose how "the U.S. enthusiastically participated in the genocide" in Indonesia during the 1960s. More >>
Thailand's Military Hunts Northern Lanna Separatists
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 9:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand's U.S.-trained military has a new enemy and is now hunting northern separatists who want to seize most of this Buddhist-majority country, create a Lanna People's Democratic Republic, and expel Bangkok to a shrunken South Thailand. More >>
Islam's First Fatwa to Protect Endangered Animals
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 5:30 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Indonesia's senior Muslim clergy have issued the world's first fatwa protecting endangered animals, after Britain's World Wildlife Fund and other groups helped organize field trips on the equatorial island archipelago to highlight the problem. More >>
Killing Each Other at Bangkok's Barricades
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 10:33 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Gunfire and explosions killed three civilians and one policeman on Tuesday (Feb. 18) and injured more than 60 others when anti-government protesters refused to remove barricades from Bangkok's streets, pushing the death toll to 14 in confrontations ... More >>
China's Military Advances Thanks to the Pentagon
Friday, 14 February 2014, 12:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
U.S., Thai and other military forces have begun Cobra Gold, the largest multinational exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, including 17 Chinese troops for the first time, a move perceived in China as proof that Beijing's "regional military impact" cannot ... More >>
America's Boots on the Ground Do Not Want a Thailand Coup
Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 5:44 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. military begins its biggest training exercise in the Asia-Pacific region next week in Thailand where Washington does "not want to see a coup" by Bangkok's armed forces amid post-election protests attempting ... More >>
Protesters Block Some Voting to Weaken Thailand's Government
Monday, 3 February 2014, 4:41 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand (Feb. 2) -- Anti-election protesters on Sunday blocked nearly 10 percent of Thailand's 93,000 polling stations to prevent the quick formation of a new government, despite millions of people voting to replace Parliament's House ... More >>
Bangkok's State of Emergency to stop vigilante protesters
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 4:58 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The government clamped a "state of emergency" on Bangkok and surrounding provinces starting on Wednesday (Jan. 22), empowering security forces to detain people without charge, ban public gatherings, impose curfews, tighten ... More >>
Bangkok's Political Violence Worsens as Grenades Hit Protest
Monday, 20 January 2014, 3:16 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Bangkok's political violence worsened on Sunday (Jan. 19) when grenades and gunfire injured 29 people at an anti-government protest, two days after a grenade killed one protester and injured 36 others who were marching to force the ... More >>
Thailand to stage elections despite anti-poll protests
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 5:11 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand will stage elections on Feb. 2 despite anti-poll protests, but the government retreated to safer buildings and emergency systems to protect U.S. and other international, domestic and military flights after threats to knockout ... More >>
Surviving a "Shutdown Bangkok" by Stockpiling
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 4:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Tens of thousands of protesters are attempting to "shutdown Bangkok," blockading streets and crippling banks, businesses, and government ministries while authorities do little to stop the campaign to topple the elected government and replace it with ... More >>
Bangkok's Shut Down and Coup Fears Cripple Thailand
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 5:37 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Security forces and six million residents are worriedly preparing to survive a 19-day "shutdown Bangkok" protest beginning on Monday (Jan. 13), designed to topple the elected government amid fears that the military may help ... More >>
Anti-Election Protesters Unable to Stop Thailand's Candidate
Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 5:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police stood by while hundreds of people laid siege to the Election Commission's office, a police station, and Thailand's equivalent of the U.S. FBI, but the protesters failed to stop candidates registering for a nationwide election ... More >>
U.S.-Trained Army Supports Thailand's Election
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 12:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand's U.S.-trained military appears to support next February's endangered election, and oppose a right-wing insurrection bent on destroying the government, seizing power, blacklisting politicians, and cancelling the polls. More >>
Bangkok's Right-Wing "Revolution" amid Murder Indictments
Friday, 13 December 2013, 3:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A court on Thursday (Dec. 12) indicted former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for alleged murders, but his deputy did not arrive for the same indictment because he was whipping up a right-wing "people's revolution" which cut off the prime minister's ... More >>
When a Lenin Statue Falls in Ukraine, Vietnamese Cannot Hear
Friday, 13 December 2013, 11:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Vietnam erased online news by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and other media about protesters toppling a Vladimir Lenin statue in Ukraine, because it "struck a nerve" among Vietnam's communist regime amid possible concerns about statues of ... More >>
