A complex portrait is emerging of the 60-year-old, mercurial, thin-skinned, sarcastic Army Chief Gen.Prayuth Chan-ocha, who surprised his non-NATO treaty alliance colleagues in the Pentagon by announcing a coup on May 22...
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28 May 2014
This increasingly violent Buddhist country is suffering a political meltdown, ominously expressed in gallows humor about deadly plastic traffic cones, but in hospital emergency rooms no one is laughing.
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25 May 2014
Army Chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha staged a coup on Thursday (May 22), telling the public "not to panic," locking up top political leaders, suspending the constitution, and sparking fears
of a backlash by angry Thais...
21 May 2014
I have recently returned from three weeks in Korea and Vietnam, countries which have in the past suffered and are still suffering from the ravages of war.
Korea -- North and South are caught in the tragic...
21 May 2014
Writing recently in TheNation, Chris Hayes drew an intensely unnerving parallel between the use of fossil fuels as an energy source...
20 May 2014
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...
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