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Green Alliance Assails Isko’s Golden Garbage Fees and Incineration Plans as Anti-poor, Pro-big Waste Capitalists

Residents of Manila City, the Philippines’ capital, assailed Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso for implementing anti-poor waste policies, increasing garbage collection fees, and supporting waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration in the city. The Manila Anti-Incinerator Alliance said these waste policies are illegal…

U.S. Power Grab in Venezuela

Trump’s New Year Resolutions – Invade, Imperialise, Impunity by Rachael Mellor The ongoing conflict between the USA and Venezuela escalated on January 3rd, 2026, after the U.S. military carried out ‘Operation Absolute Resolve‘, resulting in the abduction of Venezuelan president…

Myanmar Continues Business Ties With Neighbours

The global community may denounce the ongoing three-phase elections in Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) as a probable way to transform the Southeast Asian country into a multi-party democracy, but the military rulers continue enhancing business ties with…

Goodbye 2025, Globally a Deadlier Year for Scribes

Guwahati : As the year 2025 bids farewell, it emerged as a deadlier year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. At least 165 media professionals were killed in 31 countries, where 2024 witnessed 179 journo-casualties around…

The Witness to the Abuse of Women: A Pakistani Two-Anna Coin

Muradabad is a village in Islampur, Jamalpur. During the Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistani occupation forces established a camp at the local police station, just three kilometers from this village. The invaders would abduct innocent women from the village,…

EcoWaste Coalition Commiserates with the Family of 12-Year Old Boy Killed in Firecracker Blast

(Group pitches for “Ruzcel law” to address illegal use and disposal of firecrackers and fireworks) 30 December 2025, Quezon City.  The environmental watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition commiserated today with the family, classmates, and friends of Caezar Ruzcel R. Sarmiento of…

Myanmar Stages First Phase of Polling with Thin Turnout

The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of the general election on 28 December 2025 amid a civil war-like situation across the Southeast Asian nation with visibly low voter turnout. It covered 102 out…

Why Will Hasina Not Tender an Apology to Hindus?!

Bangladesh, which recently witnessed turmoil following the demise of a young radical leader, Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, amid anti-India rhetoric, now gradually returns to normalcy, as the South Asian nation also prepares for its next general election scheduled for 12…

PEC Condemns Murder of a Scribe, Attacks on Bangladesh Newspapers

Geneva, 22 December: Expressing serious concern over the current volatile situation in Bangladesh, which erupted after the murder of a young leader, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) urges the caretaker government in Dhaka to…

George Carlin’s Obedient America

“They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the…

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