War

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh has urged a diplomatic resolution to the escalating conflict involving Iran and the wider Middle East, stressing dialogue over confrontation as regional tensions intensify. After a high-level meeting at the Secretariat, Adviser Humayun…

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 Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Qurat al Ain Rana In the last century, millions perished in the fires of the First and Second World Wars. Europe, proud of its philosophy and its progress, burned the world in the name…

Speculation about a possible U.S. military attack on Iran has once again captured global attention. Warships repositioned, air power signaled, and rhetoric sharpened—these are familiar scenes in international politics. Yet history urges caution against taking such signals at face value.…

When security turns into a business, humanity becomes expendable. Fear is no longer an unfortunate consequence of international politics; it is a commodity—produced, marketed, and sustained. In today’s global order, wars are not always fought to end threats but to…

The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has a budget larger than any military in the…

Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington to…

The world is undergoing a seismic shift, transitioning from a unipolar order into an era of tense bipolar rivalry. In this new landscape, the ancient impulse to destroy one another is not diminished but systematized, as competing powers amass vast…

In today’s rapidly emerging multipolar world, humanity has once again become disposable. The international order that once claimed to defend democracy, human rights, and collective peace has either collapsed or been hollowed out to symbolism. The ideals that once placed…

My Dear Friend, As a person who joined my local YMCA in 1979 as a youth and then became an Executive Secretary of the National YMCA in 1988, I had the opportunity to work with the people in the North…