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The Seeds of a Renewed Humanist Movement: Where Do We Go from Here?

Between inheritance and renewal in a world marked by violence, fragmentation and spiritual exhaustion At a certain point, every movement must ask itself a difficult question: does it still exist as a living force in history, or has it become,…

China’s Coal, U.S. CO2 Stoke Global Warming

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry totaled 38.11 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2025, hitting a record high, versus 25.51 GtCO2 in 2000. Moreover, the rate of global warming more than doubled for the first time in human…

Rising Prices, Shrinking Lives: Bangladesh’s Inflation Squeeze Tightens

by Asif Showkat Kallol The cost of living in Bangladesh is rising once again- and with it, a growing sense of distress among ordinary people. Inflation has crossed the 9% threshold, reaching 9.13% in February 2026, according to the latest…

The Mountain Exhales: Thirty Years of Panagbenga

by Andrelyn B. Gayudan, Maybeline F. Nacis, and Ruther Ray C. Ruado When the calendar turns its page to February, Baguio City exhales, and the world holds its breath. The “City of Pines” sheds its emerald solitude, trading its heavy…

Global Warming Surges, Antarctic Seas Bubble

Global warming is on a very ominous trend that has never happened throughout human history, according to a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters. The rate of global warming has doubled in only ten years. This rapid rate, outside of…

Surveilling and punishing childhood: life imprisonment approved for children and adolescents in El Salvador

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has approved a legal framework enabling the imposition of life sentences on children and adolescents starting from the age of 12. This is not a technical adjustment within the penal system. It is a…

Strong UN warning that puts Kast in the dock over possible pardons for human rights violators

The United Nations system warned Chile about the international illegality of pardoning state agents convicted of human rights violations. Far from being a technical debate, the proposal opens an ethical, legal, and human fracture that repositions political power in front…

Despite the Indian Government’s Claims of ‘Doubled Income’— Why Do the Farmers Adopt a Suicidal Path?

The tragic incidence of suicide by two farmer brothers of Punjab on 23rd March, 2026, by jumping in front of a moving train has not only left behind a devastated family —their wives, two young daughters aged 8 and 10, and…

The Exploitation of Religious Festivals in Contemporary Geopolitical Conflict -When Faith Becomes a Weapon

by Staikou Dimitra Religious festivals have traditionally been moments of reflection, unity, and collective identity. Yet in fragile and conflict-prone regions, these same moments can be redefined to serve far more dangerous agendas. As Noam Chomsky has noted, “We think…

The Prehistory of Mankind and its Violent Endgame we Witness Today

As far as we can go back in human history always violence was at the core of human action, with sporadic moments of enlightenment brought by Messengers to help humankind on its predestined path towards the elimination of all forms…

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