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Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All

Over the past month, Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have begun dismantling the myth of the “American dream,” replacing glossy imagery with firsthand accounts showing that life in the so-called “land of the free” is far from…

Power, greed and psychopathy

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to wield power are those who have never sought it. Those who are forced to assume leadership, accept it because they must, and discover, to their own…

85 Seconds to Midnight and Challenging New Start Treaty Likely Demise

Moving “Gestapo Greg” Bovino out of Minneapolis was a Trump administration costume change as the assaults on constitutional democracy and immigrants grind on in each of our communities. Meanwhile, multiple crises, from the climate emergency to nuclear weapons, increased poverty,…

The sham elections in Myanmar have come to an end

Almost simultaneously with the hearings at the International Court of Justice, which ended yesterday, January 29, and will now see the Court assessing the evidence provided by both Gambian and Myanmar lawyers regarding the genocide of the Rohingya, on Sunday,…

Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention

When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. By Medea…

The Ogoni protest against Nigeria’s decision to resume oil extraction

The Nigerian government is pushing to restart oil production in Ogoniland, more than 30 years after operations were halted. This decision has reignited long-standing tensions in the Niger Delta. The Ogoni people have been at the forefront of a nonviolent…

Civil Society Vocal on Protecting Bangladesh’s Wetlands

Demands for Political Will and Inter-Ministerial Coordination by Rita Bhowmik (Dhaka Bureau) Ahead of the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh, eminent citizens and environmentalists have issued a stern demand to the government to protect the country’s endangered haors…

Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran

Redirecting Iran’s oil exports from China to India in exchange for partial US sanctions relief could avert another American attack by satisfying its goal of depriving China of some of the resources that it requires for maintaining its rapid superpower…

Sudan’s Civil War Is The Normalization Of Atrocity

What distinguishes Sudan’s catastrophe—stretching from earlier civil wars through Darfur and into the present conflict between rival military powers—is not only the scale of suffering, but the way violence has become structural, embedded in the very organization of political power.…

Why Dialogue with FIFA—Not a Simple Boycott—Could Redefine the Role of Global Sport

The growing call to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States marks a rare moment when global sport, geopolitics, and civil society collide in full public view. With former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European political and football figures…

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