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In response to the announcement from the Biden administration that 37 men currently on federal death row will have their sentences commuted, Paul O’Brien, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA made the following statement:    “We applaud President Biden for commuting…

by Maruf ul Alam Humanist Movement, Uttara Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence for granting me the opportunity to partake in an experience so rare and transformative. This journey…

We join Rita Amabili, author, theologian and lecturer, in this vibrant call to reawaken our humanity, in the face of war,  facing children. Sometimes, poetry is the only way to speak out. KILLING CHILDREN[1] Do not kill children. Do not…

The authoritarian have always been accustomed to listening to those who protect them from external or regional powers, making a foolish assumption based on their ability to maneuver and dodge with them and between them.  So when countries got tired…

The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian Navy in port at Latakia, and invaded Syria from the…

MAGA 2.0 is poised to be more geopolitically assertive than MAGA 1.0. Trump threatened that the US might retake control of the Panama Canal if it remains under indirect partial Chinese management and continues to charge the US what he…

Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with California-based weapons company, Anduril, to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system, which was tested in California at the end of November, permits the sharing of data between…

After the historic 16th BRICS summit held in October 2024, three African States Algeria, Nigeria and Uganda, among others in Europe (Belarus and Turkey), Asia and Latin America, recognizably became BRICS+ partner states. In total, thirteen countries received BRICS partner…

Japan has its sights set on renewable energy producing 40 to 50 percent of its electricity by 2040, with another 20 percent coming from nuclear power, according to a new draft of its basic energy policy. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Japan is the second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

After decades of hiatus, Bangladesh and Pakistan have made a major step toward a new era of regional cooperation in South Asia, riddled with suspicion, distrust, disrespect, and lack of neighbourliness among the eight countries. When Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad…