Opinions

In an era defined by polarized politics and performative leadership, few figures embody the philosophical concept of “bad faith” as completely as  President Donald Trump. The term, famously explored by Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1943 work “Being and Nothingness”, describes…

The post–Cold War dream of a stable unipolar world, dominated first by the United States, is coming to an uneasy end. The global order now resembles a multi-polar chessboard in which old superpowers are losing coherence, medium powers are seeking…

Trump’s New Year Resolutions – Invade, Imperialise, Impunity by Rachael Mellor The ongoing conflict between the USA and Venezuela escalated on January 3rd, 2026, after the U.S. military carried out ‘Operation Absolute Resolve‘, resulting in the abduction of Venezuelan president…

China’s Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the Shenzhou-21 mission, according to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This study…

Over the course of the last year or two, I’ve had a few exchanges with friends who’ve expressed, let’s call it “concern”, at my outspokenness regarding the duplicity and warmongering that have become central features of the Democratic Party’s M.O.…

By Dimitra Staikou “Peace requires everyone to be in the circle, wholeness, inclusion,” writes Isabel Allende, encapsulating a fundamental prerequisite for any form of sustainable social peace. In Bangladesh, however, the principle of inclusion is being tested in an increasingly violent…

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget), from October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern…

By Sharmin Rahman Sumi (Dhaka Bureau) The Chattogram Hill Tracts have emerged as a premier destination on the country’s tourism map, yet the surge in footfall is exposing deep-seated structural gaps and security vulnerabilities. The rolling hills, mist-shrouded peaks, and…

Today the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending Greenland’s sovereignty in the wake of Trump’s comments about Greenland.  For decades, Canada and the United States have…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) If the Bangladeshi government’s decision to suspend the broadcast of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is dismissed as an emotional outburst or a reaction born of cricketing disappointment, then the deeper language of South…