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How Will Key Countries Respond To The US’ Attempted Restoration Of Unipolarity?

The US’ restoration of unipolarity risks sparking another World War if cooler heads don’t prevail. The US’ new National Security and Defense Strategies, which collectively articulate the “Trump Doctrine”, make clear that the US’ grand strategic goal is to restore its predominant position…

Olympic machismo and structural exclusion: the protest of women in Nordic Combined in 2026

In January 2026, during official Nordic Combined World Cup events held in Central Europe —with visible actions in venues such as Seefeld, Austria, and Oberstdorf, Germany— athletes from the women’s circuit staged the most forceful protest to date against their…

The Last Day of Nuclear Arms Control

The following is an email that Professor Steven Starr, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, sent out last night. It contains useful graphics and a reminder that today is the last day of an era…

Situation of LGBTIQ+ people in Mali following the legal change

The recent reform of the Penal Code in Mali marks a critical turning point for human rights in the country and, in particular, for the situation of LGBTIQ+ people. By explicitly criminalizing same-sex relationships, the State has not merely introduced…

East Timor denounces Myanmar for war crimes and crimes against humanity

On February 2, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) and the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) released a statement announcing the initiation of legal proceedings by the judicial authorities of East Timor against the Myanmar junta, including its leader, Min Aung…

Peace Walk on the way to Santiago de Compostela: photos

The first group of walkers on the Peace Walk to Jerusalem continued the journey they began yesterday in Finisterre, heading from Cee to Oliveiroa towards Santiago de Compostela. Despite the wind, cold, rain, and hail, they walked 20 km, comforted…

Ocean Heat Goes Ballistic

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that support life on Earth. These crucial ecosystems are stressed. But not many of the scientific reports of…

Letter from Gran Canaria Park to the American parks of Study and Reflection Hudson Valley (New York) and Red Bluff (California)

Dear friends of the Hudson Valley and Red Bluff Study and Reflection Parks: From the Gran Canaria Study and Reflection Park, we send you our deepest greetings, filled with affection, gratitude, and solidarity in this time of great hardship for…

Contemporary slavery: structure, power, and the production of exploitable lives in the current global order

This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal criminal deviation, or an isolated humanitarian problem. Drawing on a critical review of the literature in political…

“No work, no school, no shopping” strike across the United States

In the wake of the strike that brought thousands of people together in Minneapolis on Friday, January 23, a week after the call for a total blockade against ICE brutality, cities across the United States were involved—New York, Chicago, Denver,…

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