Opinions

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…

The recent Special Report on the Situation of Freedom of Expression in Chile, published by the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression (RELE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in October 2025, is not just an institutional diagnosis:…

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela marks a political turning point that goes far beyond the Venezuelan case itself. It is not merely a concrete operation, but an operational precedent: the decision to act de facto outside the…

Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term…

I’m  noticing some of my fellow Democrats are talking about Trump’s not going through Congress before kidnapping the president of Venezuela (a notion that’s already riddled with contradictions. As if US congressional approval would have been justification to shatter all…