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Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender

The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH) denounced attacks and threats against its president, Olivia Bisa Tirko, who had already been recognized by the Public Prosecutor’s Office as an environmental defender at risk due to threats linked to…

The big lie that is repeating itself

How the narrative after WW2 was nothing else than to obscure the truth and how it is connected to the treatment of refugees today. The narrative after WW2 that the whole West did not know what Nazi Germany was doing…

AI: the genie out of the bottle

New York has just opened a debate that Chile should not evade. Its mayor, Zohran Mamdani, established a one-year moratorium on the direct use of generative artificial intelligence for nearly 600,000 students in public schools, from prekindergarten through eighth grade.…

Child Marriage Trapped in Poverty and Insecurity

Across the Kholpetua River in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, lies Gabura. To reach the villages of this union adjacent to the Sundarbans, one must cross the river by trawler from Neel Dumur Ghat to Chokbara Ghat on the other side. Beyond lies…

The strange European belligerence

In several interviews conducted by the excellent Glenn Diesen, the question submitted to his guests often concerned the reasons for Europe’s bellicose behavior toward Russia. The contrast is striking when compared to the other participants in the conflict. It is…

A runaway race toward superintelligence, still without reins, puts humanity in check

There is something profoundly absurd about the contemporary race for artificial intelligence: some of the human beings who best understand the potential danger are sitting inside the laboratories accelerating toward it. We are not talking about technological prophets writing from…

Who Will Control AI?

Decentralized Tech, Underground Arms Races, and Silo’s Call for Inner Transformation As Artificial Intelligence migrates from experimental laboratories into battle spaces and strategic defense doctrines, global anxiety is fixated on a technical dilemma: how do we constrain algorithmic systems? Yet…

The institute that did not exist: Israel and the new industry for hijacking the narrative and spreading disinformation in the age of artificial intelligence

The investigation into the Hanover Institute revealed far more than a fake think tank that published 124 reports and more than 560,000 words in nine days. Following the money trail down to the records filed under the Foreign Agents Registration…

The Human Face of Biosecurity: Empathy and Solidarity in Benguet’s Fight Against African Swine Fever

By Peter A. Canggat Jr. The Human Side of Disease Control In the steep peaks of the Cordillera Mountains, the battle against a devastating animal disease is being waged with active listening, mutual respect, and community solidarity. African Swine Fever (ASF)…

Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground

The sovereignty dispute is usually framed as a choice between Britain and Argentina. But as the Sea Lion project moves towards production, another question has become unavoidable: should hundreds of millions of barrels of new oil be extracted at all?…

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