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Bangladesh parliamentary elections is likely next year

Bangladesh will not have to wait for years, as it happens in countries where popular people’s revolutions have ousted autocratic regimes and military dictators. The election in Bangladesh is expected sometime in the winter of 2025. In a rare press…

Frida Berrigan: We are suffering from ‘militarism abuse disorder’

With symptoms that include the endangerment of a safe and healthy future, it’s time we kick the habit of military dependency. By Frida Berrigan This article was originally published by TomDispatch. My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I…

The End of the UN

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal Observe the rhetoric, the beautiful words, the confidence, and the glamour of the UN Assembly with world leaders. They deliver impressive speeches filled with manipulated words and logic. Everyone knows there are conflicts, violence, escalating wars,…

Why should China and EU find a mutually acceptable solution on EVs

Relations between China and the EU are now at a crossroads. The EU’s ability to make right decisions and wise judgements, correct and adjust its perspective of China, and maintain a positive relationship with China will determine how the China-EU…

True Peace Demands the End of War: Unmasking the Illusions of Power and Profit

 OPEN LETTER AGAINST WAR Ladies and Gentlemen, representatives of citizens and peoples Stop the horror, the inadmissibility. Why are you leaving open the absurd possibility of resorting to nuclear weapons when the war in Ukraine has reached a total stalemate?…

Please Stop Saying That Every War Is Not a War But Something Bad

Yes, I’m going to say this again. I’ve heard not the slightest hint of a refutation or objection to it, and yet so many, many people ignore it. For the love of all that is decent, immediately stop the self-defeating…

Rohingya Crisis: A Call for Repatriation or Resettlement

The Rohingya people, victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Myanmar’s military junta, continue to face severe displacement and hardship. The internal crisis in Myanmar, particularly the renewed hostilities between the Arakan Army and the Junta, along with targeted attacks…

Antarctica’s Deep Vulnerability Exposed at 11th Scientific Conference

The 11 th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research conference was held in Pucón, Chile August 19-23, 2024. Fifteen-hundred academics, researchers, and scientists specializing in Antarctica met to share cutting-edge research. Reports at the conference exposed new dimensions of the Antarctic…

Anura Kumara Dissanayake: A Vision of Unity for Sri Lanka’s Future

On September 21, the people of Sri Lanka have elections to vote for a new president for a five-year term. Since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, there have been successive conservative governments, more or less authoritarian and…

Oil energy holding co-piloted by Russia and China?

Since alternative energies still need huge subsidies to be viable in developing countries, the practice of fracking (a kind of panacea that will solve the energy problems of humanity) Environmental concerns, and the inertia of oil assets will not allow…

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