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The word as an act of restitution
On 17 February 2026, Et la joie de vivre, the memoir of Gisèle Pelicot, is published. In Spanish, it appears as Un himno a la vida and in English as A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. At the center of this release, there is no marketing spectacle, but a woman who refuses…
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A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic. It is a visionary peace proposal that can save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin. A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity — benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us. By Jan Oberg – TFF director I. Four Principles…
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Tarique Rahman Becomes the 11th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
by Sheikh Mohammad Arif (Dhaka Bureau) Tarique Rahman, Chairman of the BNP, has become the new Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He took his oath on Tuesday (February 17) at the South Plaza of the National Parliament House. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath. He was sworn in as…
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EcoWaste Coalition Sounds the Alarm against a Moisturizing Cream Banned in the UK for Posing a “Serious Chemical Risk”
18 February 2026, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged users of a Pakistan-made moisturizing facial cream to halt further use following the product’s withdrawal from the UK market as it poses “a serious chemical risk.” “To avoid adverse effects on people’s health and the environment, we urge consumers not to buy and…
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Ukraine four years later: what remains of the official narrative?
Following the events of February 24, 2022, political leaders, the mainstream media, and the armchair “experts” all reacted in the same way. They portrayed it as a war between Russia and Ukraine, as an unprovoked Russian aggression, and as an intervention motivated by imperialist objectives. These three aspects of the official narrative have still not…
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Neutrality in the face of extermination is not culture: it is complicity
More than eighty figures from the international film community, including Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay, publicly challenged the Berlin International Film Festival over its silence regarding Gaza. Their letter is not a symbolic gesture: it is a direct ethical indictment of institutional indifference at a time of mass crimes documented by the United…
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West Bank: The registration of dispossession
When a power that occupies a territory decides to register the land of the occupied as its own, this is no longer administration: it is appropriation. Israel’s new law on land in the West Bank confirms that the so-called “two-state solution” has become empty rhetoric while, on the ground, an irreversible transformation is being consolidated.…
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SIPRI and CACDA host workshop in Beijing on space and strategic stability
On 3–4 February, SIPRI and the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA) held a closed-door expert workshop in Beijing, China, on the theme ‘Space and Strategic Stability’.
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African Union Consolidates Relations With United Nations
(Moscow Bureau) – In its declaration after the two-day extensive deliberations, African leaders, under the auspices of the African Union, renewed their collective pledge to strengthen strategic partnership with United Nations and also prioritize multilateralism on the global agenda. The leaders further noted the central role of the United Nations, although have consistently called for…
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Rubio’s Munich Speech Detailed Trump 2.0’s Envisaged New World Order
What Trump 2.0 wants to do is lead Western Civilization’s comprehensive reforms with a view towards building a nascent civilization-state that would then unrestrainedly wield its restored collective strength to coerce rising rivals into subordinating themselves to it for restoring unipolarity. Marco Rubio, who’s one of the most powerful figures in the US due to…