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Brazil Announces More Than 30 Cities and Regions Will Accelerate Climate Action Projects Through Mutirão Program

First cohort of cities and states will receive support from C40 Cities and the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to deliver implementation-ready climate initiatives by 2027 C40 Cities and the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate &…

Standing Together in a Time of War: Voices of Resistance in Tel Aviv

In the heart of Tel Aviv, hundreds of Jews and Palestinians gathered in Habima Square to deliver a message rarely heard in times of escalating conflict: the cycle of war must end. Organized by Standing Together and led by its…

Pressenza Participates in the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America, CIESPAL, in Quito, Ecuador

Between March 19 and 21, Pressenza participated in the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America, hosted by CIESPAL in Quito, Ecuador — a regional forum for reflection and exchange on community, grassroots, and alternative communication, understood as a…

What does it mean to be a good Cuban-American?

If you’d have asked me that question six years ago my answer would have been the standardized one, because it was an answer that had been etched into my mind since I was young. By Susana Evelyn Ramirez To be…

In Memoriam Berta Cáceres

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos…

Republican lawmakers, courts, governors, and conservative media are increasingly challenging Trump’s authority as the Iran war and economic policies deepen divisions inside the GOP

Trump’s Aura Of Invincibility Is Disintegrating The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy, and now the war of choice against Iran, are sharpening an older divide between nationalist populists, institutionalist conservatives, business-friendly…

Cultural Diplomacy and the Revival of Bangladesh–India Relations

Bangladesh hosts 90 per cent Muslims of its total population, along with other minorities, which is the fourth largest Muslim-inhabited country in the World. On the contrary, despite India having Hindu centrism, about 21 crore Muslims have been living in…

The Anglo-Japanese Military-Political Alliance against Russia (1902–1921) and the Consequences of its Termination for World Politics

Japan’s imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries that ultimately drew it into World War II. Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović Japan and Southeast Asia…

A Candid Open Letter to the Left About Iran and Beyond.

Dear Colleagues and Comrades: Today the flyers and banners say “STOP THE WAR ON IRAN.” Two weeks ago they said, “STOP THE WAR ON VENEZUELA” or “STOP THE WAR ON CUBA” or “STOP THE WAR ON GAZA.” And of course we easily recall…

Imperial Oil Grab: The Abduction of Venezuela’s President as a Prelude to the Attack on Iran

Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that…

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