Autor: pacifista

  • Colonial Arrogance and Militarization: UK Challenges Peace in the Falklands Once Again

    In late October 2025, the United Kingdom conducted Operation Ex Cape Sword, a new military exercise in the Falkland Islands that included live-fire drills, air defence simulations, and troop deployments in areas near Port Stanley. Under the pretext of routine training, London is consolidating a permanent military presence that challenges United Nations resolutions, which urge…

  • The moral and political decay of a small European country at the sea.

    We had early general elections in the Netherland after the fall of the government coalition being  in power only one and a half year. It was a 4-party center/far-right coalition that from the start was an impossible adventure. The far-right populist anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders had won the elections with 37 of the 150…

  • Mercury Treaty Fails to Address the Gold Mining Crisis

    Ban on mercury in dental fillings is a positive step. But small-scale gold mining will remain the largest global contributor to mercury pollution without urgent action. 07 November 2025. Geneva. Despite the growing crisis of mercury contamination in the Amazon, Africa and parts of Asia caused by mercury use in small-scale gold mining (also called…

  • Unpatriotic Roles: ‘Matchmakers in the Dark’ Under Watch

    By GM Farhadul Majumder and Md Delwar Hossain (Dhaka Bureau) A certain quarter is recently engaged in propagating false, anti-military, and anti-state narratives from both inside and outside the country, with the aim of creating a rift between the Bangladesh Army and its citizens. It is learned that the interim government led by Professor Muhammad…

  • Kabylia and the Challenge of National Pluralism in Algeria

    Kabylia, a historical and cultural region located in the northeast of Algeria, has long been a space of strong identity expression within the Algerian nation. Through its attachment to the Amazigh language, education, cultural transmission, and civic engagement, this region continues to play a vital role in shaping Algeria’s social and political landscape. However, this…

  • The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence               

    Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines their economies and jeopardizes their peoples’ and world security. Accidents and miscalculations could trigger a calamitous war. We now live with the possibility of…

  • Zohran the tiger

    What’s a “watch party“? That’s what my friends from Italy ask me on WhatsApp. What do I tell them? That I’m in a mega-club in Brooklyn, and that while I dance, pretending to be twenty-five myself, on a giant screen two hosts talk, make faces, and show comedy sketches that enlivened the latest New York…

  • Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences Divide: Reflections on the Book, “Halo Halo Ecologies”

    by George Banez “Biologists seem to care more about eagles than the people living in the forests with them.” The executive director of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC), an anthropologist, told me that in 1989. The young me, a budding environmental biologist, disagreed. I explained that we protect eagles because of the role they play…

  • Seoul Celebrates the Spirit of Wellness at the Korean Ginseng Festival 2025

    For over 2,000 years, ginseng has been cultivated, extracted, and has benefited countless people in East Asia and around the world. It’s often called the “root of life,” symbolizing vitality, longevity, and spiritual balance. In recent years, Korean ginseng, locally called insam, has become a fascinating topic that bridges traditional medicine, modern science, and cultural…

  • The July Charter ushers the hope of a solution to the political dilemma in Bangladesh

    by Shamsul Basunia After the July 2024 uprising, people in Bangladesh expected to have shining days for their lives. But they still don’t have it, even until the writing of this report on November 6th on 2025. The National Consensus Commission (NCC) was formed to build consensus on the July Charter and the proposed political reforms…