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To prevent global ecological collapse we must radically retrench and close down unsustainable industries.

The discontent is rooted in the massive social inequality in Hong Kong - one of the world's major financial centers - and the growing lack of opportunity for its …

Decentralized power, electoral transparency, local decision making about local concerns: are those Hong Kong's demands or ours?

Tiananmen analogies are a barrier to understanding what's really going on in Hong Kong says Peter Lee, Journalist for the Asia Times Online.

In order to keep the Pacific Ocean as a classic “American lake,” the Obama administration has been “pivoting” back to Asia for several years now.

Completely unnoticed by pundits on recent protests is a major demographic shift in Hong Kong’s population, which is redefining the issues that motivate the younger generation.

Hong Kong-based Attorney Robert Lee talks about the economic and political history at the center of ongoing protests.

Assistant professor Eli Friedman from Cornell University says working-class and union participation has increased in subsequent occupations.

Hong Kong is facing its biggest political unrest in decades as tens of thousands of protesters defy a police crackdown to demand greater freedom from China.

Twenty-five years ago, the government in Beijing turned its guns on the people who had risen in protests to express their frustration with corruption. The refusal to this day …