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Bangladesh’s Debt Trap: Interim Government Ensnared, Next Administration Faces Looming Fiscal Crisis

by Asif Showkat Kallol ( Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s interim government has found itself navigating a deepening economic crisis, weighed down by a mountain of debt accumulated during the tenure of the ousted Awami League administration. What was once presented as…

The Olympic truce and the ethical collapse of the international order

The Olympic truce was born as a radical moral principle: the conviction that war must fall silent, even if only briefly, to allow human encounter on equal terms. It was not diplomacy nor spectacle, but a deliberate suspension of violence…

Trump, racism and obscenity

There is a point in the exercise of power at which scandal ceases to be an accident and becomes a method. A point at which provocation no longer seeks applause and instead measures impunity. A point —deeply dangerous— at which…

Visits to the New World

We are a couple of Brazilian university professors, senior researchers of alternatives to environmental collapse, who have been visiting communities that offer alternatives to the society that is causing this collapse. For over two decades, we have been visiting ecovillages,…

Washington rejected the extension of New Start Treaty with Moscow

The expiration of the New Start treaty on February 5th coincided with the end of the last major treaty limiting weapons of mass destruction. The United States government rejected the Russian proposal to extend the treaty. The treaty was signed…

The Peace Walk sets off again from Santiago de Compostela

The group of courageous nonviolent activists who have been walking in recent days through wind, rain, and hail has set off again from Santiago de Compostela, a symbolic place that epitomizes all the pilgrimages that have marked European history. As…

Five years since the last military coup in Myanmar

Once again this year, Burmese exiles around the world commemorated the anniversary of the military coup of February 1, 2021, which put an end to an experiment in democracy that had lasted almost a decade, always on a knife edge,…

Interview with Dr Alon Ben Meir: Promoting Nonviolence in the Middle East

David interviews Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, retired professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation on the Davids Campaign and the urgent need to renew nonviolent strategies in the Middle East. The campaign seeks to support individuals…

Online Workshop to Address Intergenerational Responsibility, Nuclear Risks, and Peace in the Middle East

Pressenza International Press Agency, in collaboration with the International Center for the Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, will host an online workshop titled “The Responsibility of Our Time: Becoming Good Ancestors for Future Generations” on February 15 at 7:30 PM (ET).…

End of the New START Treaty: Major powers evade control over their nuclear weapons

February 5, 2026, was the date on which the New START Treaty expired without the US and Russia renewing it. The People’s Republic of China also did not participate in renegotiations. By Klaus Moegling Nothing now stands in the way…

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