Autor: pacifista

by GM Forhadul Mojumdar (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh is grappling with the heavy burden of unemployment. The educated youth of the country are failing to find work after completing their studies. Today, educated unemployment has become one of the most complex socio-economic crises in Bangladesh. Notably, the rate of unemployment among educated women is higher than…

Building more facilities there to complement Pituffik Space Base would further the US’ “Golden Dome” missile defense plans for obtaining a strategic edge over Russia while extracting more critical minerals from there would reduce dependence on vulnerable Chinese supply chains. Trump recently reaffirmed his intent to annex Greenland on the pretext that this would supposedly…

A delegation of the Humanist Movement of Kenya has conveyed deep sympathy and solidarity to the Venezuelan Embassy in Nairobi regarding the tragic events in Venezuela on 3 February 2026, condemning the attack and expressing condolences to the families of the victims. The Humanists’ message underscored the intrinsic value of human life and rejected all…

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela. By Roger D. Harris The senator’s reply, with my translations of his Washington-speak (in italics) provided in brackets, is as follows: “I have…

An open wound in Chile’s –de facto– fragile democracy The recent acquittal of former Carabineros officer Claudio Crespo, responsible for the shot that left Gustavo Gatica blind on November 8, 2019 during the social uprising, is not an isolated event. Santiago’s Fourth Oral Criminal Court retroactively applied Law 21.560 —known as the Naín-Retamal Law— acknowledging…

El passat 3 de desembre de 2025, organitzacions de drets humans i més de trenta eurodiputats van celebrar una jornada d’incidència política al Parlament Europeu per exigir a la Unió Europea que assumeixi les seves responsabilitats legals i polítiques davant el genocidi del poble palestí. L’acte va culminar amb l’enviament d’una carta a l’Alta Representant de…

The Director of SIPRI, Karim Haggag, was appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

The year 2026 begins with a hangover: US imperialism reminds the world of its ugly past. A head of state is kidnapped, whisked away to the kidnapping country, put on display, subjected to a sham trial, and his country declared “run ” by the kidnapping nation (a protectorate). He is treated as a hostage in…

On 12 January, Karim Haggag, SIPRI Director, addressed Folk och Försvars Rikskonferens (an annual conference for the Swedish security and defence policy community).

Amid an existential crisis in northeast India’s well-known media house, the Assam Tribune group of newspapers, which worsened after the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular Assamese weekly newspaper lost its publication in the latter part of 2025. Asom Bani, once a mainstream weekly for Assamese readers for decades, stopped hitting the stands since September last year,…