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BNP Returns to Power After Two Decades: Tarique Rahman to be the New Prime Minister

In a historic political shift in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is returning to state power after a long 20-year hiatus. Following a landslide victory in the 13th National Parliamentary Election held on Thursday (February 12), the party is…

How Do We Make Life Meaningful?

In a series of articles, I have explored the question of “meaning of life”— and how different it is from simply chasing material goods. Let me approach the theme from another angle. We have become extremely rational about what we…

Fourth World March for Peace and Nonviolence: starting from the territories

Two intense moments of discussion and sharing took place in Cecina between Saturday, February 7, and Sunday, February 8: two days that brought together reflection, political proposals, cultural dimensions, and concrete practices of nonviolence, connecting the local level with a…

Bridge in dispute: Trump threatens to block the new connection between Michigan and Ontario

The White House warning that it could halt or condition the new binational bridge connecting Michigan and Ontario deepens the deterioration of relations between the United States and Canada. In a corridor through which nearly a quarter of bilateral trade…

Nigeria Bleeding: Oil, Massacres and the Architecture of a Useful Violence

In Africa’s most populous country, burned villages, executed bodies and mass displacement expose a crisis that cannot be explained solely by religious fanaticism or local criminality. In a nation rich in oil and strategic for the global energy market, extreme…

When Ideology Denies DNA: The Arabization of Algeria

For a long time, Algerian identity has been presented through a narrow and selective lens. Many Algerians were taught, directly or indirectly, that their origins were mainly Arab, as if the country’s history began only with the arrival of Arab-speaking…

Cuba under siege: famine induced and planned by Washington

The intensification of the economic, financial and energy siege against Cuba — reaffirmed and expanded under the current U.S. administration — is producing a severe supply crisis and widespread blackouts that various analysts describe as an induced famine. After more…

Trump halts environmental policies: The danger of brutal ignorance in power

The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming and reopens a debate…

Washington as a battering ram against the European model

The discursive and political backing from influential sectors in the United States for far-right forces in Germany forms part of a broader process of international legitimation of ethnonationalist projects. In the German case, the normalization of the AfD and the…

When love breaks into the spectacle

On the most heavily guarded stage of U.S. symbolic power, a legitimate voice turned entertainment into a political act and confronted hatred with collective dignity. It was not just the Super Bowl. That ultimate altar of spectacle—designed to say nothing…

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