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Hilde Vautmans: Member of the Conference of Presidents of Delegations, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation for Relations with the United States, Committee on Security and Defence, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Delegation for Relations with the People’s…

“If we save the sea, we save our world” — Sir David Attenborough, Ocean with David Attenborough Almost every country in the world has signed on to safeguard a minimum of 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030, yet just…

Noufel Bouzenboudja is a North African writer and artist who combines art with active citizenship projects. Born in Kabylia, Algeria, he taught English and theater techniques there for several years. He has lived in several countries: Spain, Denmark, Belgium, France,…

No fossil fuel interest or government can stop the world from working toward a clean energy future, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday after holding a closed-door virtual meeting with 17 heads of government and state. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Participants in…

In the context of the ongoing debate about freedom of debate, there is a proverbial «elephant in the room» that many are reluctant to name explicitly. Recent measures such as revoking visas, detaining students and scholars, suppressing protests, restricting academic…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal Few nations share a history as intertwined—or as tragically divided—as India and Pakistan. Yet in our current era of jingoism and hyper-nationalism, we’ve forgotten the wisdom of the very leaders who shaped our independence: Mahatma Gandhi,…

Poland is finally joining in the scramble for Ukraine after naively sitting on the sidelines all these years. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was surprisingly candid earlier this month when talking about how Poland plans to profit from Ukraine. In his words, “We…

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as well as the popular mobilization, public opinion still does not know who ordered the banning of the cultural conference that…

The New York Times Over the course of the last 25 years, The New York Times has devolved into an arm of the Israel lobby and the now bipartisan neoconservative war economy. In fact, most of their foreign affairs and…

By Ken Butigan It is said that when St Francis of Assisi died, the grief his followers felt was gradually transformed into profound gratitude and joy as they gathered to process with his body from the Porziuncola to the church…