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Once again this year, Burmese exiles around the world commemorated the anniversary of the military coup of February 1, 2021, which put an end to an experiment in democracy that had lasted almost a decade, always on a knife edge, and led to the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi and many other politicians from…

David interviews Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, retired professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation on the Davids Campaign and the urgent need to renew nonviolent strategies in the Middle East. The campaign seeks to support individuals and movements working to transform destructive and abusive power dynamics in Israel, Palestine, and Gaza—particularly…

Pressenza International Press Agency, in collaboration with the International Center for the Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, will host an online workshop titled “The Responsibility of Our Time: Becoming Good Ancestors for Future Generations” on February 15 at 3:00 PM (ET). The workshop will explore how current political and security decisions—particularly those related to nuclear weapons…

February 5, 2026, was the date on which the New START Treaty expired without the US and Russia renewing it. The People’s Republic of China also did not participate in renegotiations. By Klaus Moegling Nothing now stands in the way of unrestrained further nuclear armament. This makes the world even more unsafe. How crazy do…

In Beijing, on Thursday, February 5, a high-level meeting was held between Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Tô Lâm, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. From the Chinese perspective, the meeting reflected the solidity of a relationship based on…

An Israeli air strike on southern Gaza during the night of 5–6 February left at least 24 Palestinians dead. Among them was a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic, killed while evacuating the wounded. The massacre once again places at the centre an essential warning: normalising these crimes is a form of complicity. During the night of…

Imagine telling someone who has experienced the most apocalyptic conditions known to man to give their perpetrators a “chance.” That’s exactly what it felt like when I opened my phone the other day and saw headlines from The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal talking about Trump’s sham “Board of Peace,” which is supposed to…

February 6 marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice affecting over 230 million girls and women worldwide and considered by the UN a grave violation of human rights. FGM includes all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or any other injury to female…

We are at a crossroads of civilization, facing contradictions that cannot be solved by the same logic that created them. We are attempting to answer the future of humanity with a mindset inherited from the past. “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon We live in the most…

The announcement made this week by the Global Sumud Flotilla marks a turning point in the international civil response to the systematic destruction of Gaza, classified as genocide by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. The coalition confirmed the launch of the largest…