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We were waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Dear Lord, I sincerely hope that you will come Because you really started something. Elvis Costello, Waiting…

On the four-year anniversary of Australian publisher Julian Assange’s remand imprisonment in London, Australian, US, UK and Brazilian politicians have appealed to the US Attorney General to drop the extradition and espionage charges against the WikiLeaks founder. An open letter…

It is 62 years since a historic human feat: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s journey to become the first human being to see the Earth from space with his own eyes. It was on 12 April 1961 and it was a…

The banking crisis is different this time. In fact, it is worse than in 2007-08. Back then, we could blame the sequential collapse of banks on wholesale fraud, widespread predatory lending, collusion between rating agencies and bankers suspected of selling…

Silo’s words that framed our project to sensitise sighted people to the group of blind people marginalised by our society: “When you do something for others, when you look for the needy, the disoriented, the dispossessed and help them to…

Bangladesh, Japan, and India will hold a meeting in Tripura on 11-12 April to put in place connectivity initiatives to harness the commercial potential of the region. By Fumiko Yamada Asian Confluence, a think tank based out of North East India, in…

Beijing clearly does not want to spend time and resources on talking to people that undermine and vilify it at every turn. By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst A recent Politico article, citing unnamed US officials, claims that China is “ghosting” the US,…

Terminally ill whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wants more copycats and is concerned about nuclear threats. Editors of the online newspaper Infosperber In the midst of the Vietnam War in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg had leaked secret military papers to the New York…

In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job…

We, Westerners, have been robbed of our access to and ability to get in touch with the Sacred. In all forms, not only in the religious or mystical sense but also in art, in communication with our fellow human beings,…