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Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together
This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their…
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Sudan under drones: when a medical communiqué reveals the anatomy of a permitted war
In just two weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières reported that 167 people were treated for severe injuries caused by drone attacks in civilian areas of Sudan. Penetrating chest wounds, fractured skulls, amputations of children. What the medical report describes in clinical terms exposes something deeper: the consolidation of a technological form of warfare operating over civilian…
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China: reconverting taxi drivers in the era of the robotaxi
China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an industrial policy backed by the state. In that framework, the labor question does not appear…
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When Code Replaces Conscience
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 of reason, nation, and superiority. Arrogance wore a uniform, marched under flags, and called its…
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Iranian people should have the right to choose their living conditions
President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the United States. Earlier Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a TV interview that his country…
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Trump’s Tariff Drama and Dhaka’s Diplomatic Daze
by Asif Showkat Kallol Global politics often features characters whose mere presence shakes the stage. Donald Trump belongs to that rare category of politicians who treat law as an obstacle, courts as inconveniences, and tariffs as a universal political weapon. When the US Supreme Court struck down his retaliatory tariff program as unlawful, many assumed…
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Sama-Bajau Weaving and Cultural Center Opens in Basilan, Strengthening Livelihoods and Safeguarding Cultural Heritage
Maluso, Basilan, Philippines — February 21, 2026. The Claret Samal Foundation Inc. (CSFI), in partnership with the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation (YBH), proudly and happily announces the opening of the Sama-Bajau Weaving and Cultural Center in Sitio Teheman, Maluso, Basilan — a dedicated community space designed to empower Sama-Bajau women weavers, strengthen sustainable livelihoods, and…
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Memory as norm and structural debt: the African initiative before the international economic order
At the most recent African Union summit held in Addis Ababa, Ghana secured the inclusion on the agenda of an initiative calling on the United Nations General Assembly to formally recognize the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the racialized enslavement of Africans as a crime against humanity. President John Dramani Mahama announced that the resolution will…
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For crimes against humanity in Gaza: Israeli sniper accused in Chile
On February 16, 2026, a criminal complaint was filed before the 8th Guarantee Court of Santiago against Rom Kovtun, an Israeli-Ukrainian citizen, for his alleged participation in crimes committed during the 2024 military offensive in Gaza. The legal action, brought by the Hind Rajab Foundation through Chilean lawyer Pablo Andrés Araya Zacarías, invokes Law 20.357…
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Hollow Power: Why the Democrats’ Gains May Be Fragile
Democrats are riding high in recent polls, but this surge may owe more to the current administration’s missteps than to their own vision. Without a generative, long-term blueprint—like Project 2025 on the right or the Green New Deal—liberal gains risk feeling reactive rather than transformative. What might a durable Democratic project look like, and how…