Politics

The use of key security policy terms in public discourse is intended to suggest facts that serve to calm people down. However, there are many reasons for concern that could also trigger peace forces. By Klaus Moegling The illusion of…

The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore…

China has expressed strong concern over military strikes against Iran launched by the United States and Israel, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, calling for an immediate halt to all military actions. On Sunday, China’s Foreign Minister…

Protesting and expressing dissent in Italy has become more difficult for everyone, but if a second-generation girl participates in a protest, it becomes an even more complicated problem. This is the story of Haji, a 17-year-old girl studying in Florence.…

There is an old parable: If someone throws a child into a river, you jump in to save the child. But then the same person throws another child into the river, and again, you dive in to rescue. This continues…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh faces the risk of a major electricity shortfall ahead of the summer season after the interim government failed to clear more than Tk45bn (£330m) in dues to a major private power producer, leaving…

by Md. Delwar Hossain In the course of a shifting global political landscape, Bangladesh is increasingly being viewed as a significant geopolitical hub in Asia, with major regional and global powers seeking closer ties with Dhaka. Following the ousting of…

Here is Trump’s disturbing speech with an analysis of all the classical psycho-political delusions, hubris, arrogance and the blindness of military power. It can only go wrong now… By Jan Oberg, TFF Director There were only two things that surprised…

On the morning of Thursday, February 26, Columbia University student Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, originally from Azerbaijan, was arrested in New York by ICE agents who entered her off-campus residential building without a warrant. Columbia’s interim president, Claire Shipman, said security…

by Asif Showkat Kallol  The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) administration that took power after its landslide election victory this month has declared that the country’s diplomacy will now be guided by an explicit ‘Bangladesh First’ doctrine, placing national interest, sovereignty,…