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Love for Living Animals: White-rumped Vultures are Angels who Lift Humans to a “Sky Burial” in Heaven

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

Gray November

POEM   by Erlie Lopez “Gray November in My Soul” it was, that literati’s folk house in Manila dim and other-worldly with cigarette smoke dancing over heads huddled close to hear each other’s pains being drowned by guitar strings and…

A poem in the time of covid-19: To Mnemosyne

A POEM AND A BACKSTORY     Imprisoned by an unseen virus, Days went by, enclosed, barren and bereft.   When the body is shackled The mind wanders, If not to future hopes Dimmed by a closing in of the…

The Poet’s Job

POEM   The work of a poet is to look up in the sky in its unchanging morning azure and ask why its color never languished, never turned into crimson. Or into verdant maybe, because it gave all those to…

Thailand and Bangladesh: The Chittagong-Ranong Port Connectivity Potential

by Pathik Hasan Bangladesh and Thailand are neighbors, connected by the Bay of Bengal. The development of these maritime ties would benefit both countries in terms of trade, investment, and regional communications. The two countries are in talks to sign a…

Ephemeris of the vicious attack on the Gdeim Izik camp

Moroccan special forces raid the house of the Jaya family and inoculate Sultana and her mother with unknown substances by intramuscular injection. Paramilitary elements belonging to the Moroccan occupying forces broke into the house of the family of Saharawi activist…

Renewable energies and “green hydrogen”: A new face of destruction?

The Argentine government announced an investment of 8.4 billion dollars by the Australian multinational Fortescue to produce “green hydrogen”. The World Rainforest Movement questions the industrial scale of the so-called “energy transition” and claims that mega-projects negatively impact local populations.…

Hassana Aalia, the long struggle of the Saharawi people

On 8 November eleven years ago, the experience of 28 days of peaceful encampment in Gdeim Izik ended with the violence of the Moroccan army. We interviewed one of the young protagonists of that experience. I met Hassana Aalia a…

The Persistence of Pinkerism

I’m old enough to remember when you couldn’t do a speaking event related to war and peace without being asked numerous reasonable and not so reasonable questions about 9/11 (each accompanied by a stack of DVDs and flyers presented to…

How China Is Addressing Education Inequality

In China, the educational pressure on children is intense, and it begins when they are very young. A mother living in Shanghai describes the demands of her six-year-old child’s education, saying, “In kindergarten, children already need to spend the whole…

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