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by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) In a move set to redraw the economic map of South Asia, the United States and Bangladesh have signed a comprehensive Reciprocal Trade Agreement, signaling a ‘new era’ of bilateral cooperation that moves beyond…

It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t…

The attack on Venezuela by the United States and a series of threats, the application of sanctions and punishments, through blockades or the raising of tariffs, against Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Iran, Canada, Greenland, among others, represent a clear threat to…

What is happening in Israeli prisons can no longer be read as a series of isolated abuses or as circumstantial deviations inherent to a prolonged conflict. The accumulated reports of Palestinian, Israeli, and United Nations organizations describe a coherent, progressive,…

Bad Bunny has dominated headlines following his halftime performance at this year’s Super Bowl. Credit where it is due: he delivered what many expected—an unapologetic expression of cultural diversity, historical memory, and solidarity with Latino communities and other marginalized and discriminated…

For thirteen minutes on the most-watched stage in American culture, Bad Bunny made the United States feel expansive, uncontained, Caribbean rhythm–centered, and alive with a sense of belonging that crossed borders without asking permission. As a Venezuelan-American, I felt chills…

Establishment Pundits Call for a Return to “Reasonableness”  Over the course of the last 5 to 10 years there have been an array of celebrity pundits, journalists and politically oriented personalities speaking about a collective need to return to “sanity”…

On Friday, February 6, 2026, another in a series of evenings inspired by documentaries from the FICNOVA International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence took place in Prague. The festival was launched last year in Prague as part of the third…

On Friday, February 6, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order—the thirteenth since taking office—to protect New York’s immigrants from the Trump administration’s abuses. New York is a so-called “sanctuary city,” which limits cooperation with ICE and…

Several years ago, I read an interesting article about a place where urban planning had favored the periphery over the center; this concept gave rise to modern network cities, a system of nodes where each becomes a center. The idea…