Autor: pacifista

The three glasses are already close together, ready to touch; we pause for a moment, look each other in the eyes, and together decide to proceed with the toast, defying superstitious precautions and well-established fears. Laura reminds us that if we want change, we must believe in it, trust it, and do our part; if,…

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based on statements by polar scientists over the past 18 months, it warrants a Red Flag Warning, meaning higher than expected risks of catastrophic meltdown within current lifetimes. This meets the criteria…

18 November 2025, Quezon City, Philippines. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to analyze colored sand play products being sold in the market after the regulatory authorities in Australia and New Zealand announced recalls due to potential asbestos contamination.  Exposure to asbestos, a hazardous chemical, can cause serious long-term…

by Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has ordered the death penalty for the ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case involving crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising. This is the first case related to crimes against humanity, including murder, during the mass uprising to be adjudicated…

by Maruf ul Alam Dhaka Bureau A police officer, after managing the police station’s work since morning, suddenly receives a court notice in the afternoon. He is summoned to testify in a case filed ten years ago. However, that case was filed in Dhaka, and he is currently posted in Cox’s Bazar, a district town…

By David Swanson People of Ecuador 1 — Military Industrial Complex 0 In 2007, then-President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said he wanted a military base in Miami if the United States were to continue using a military base in Ecuador. Bye bye, U.S. bases! More recently, however, times changed. Pressures were applied. A new Ecuadorean…

Life is being destroyed. The violence of power is at its peak. The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) for one year’s work. Furthermore, it allows a single person (Trump) to demolish all the founding…

On November 17, 2025, Beijing hosted the Fourth China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue, a carefully staged event with both political gravitas and economic urgency. This meeting, co-chaired by China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng and Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, comes at a pivotal moment for Sino-German relations at a time when trade frictions,…

We often speak of “safe spaces” as if they were structures—rooms with the right words on the wall, policies to shield us, communities pledged to kindness. But safety is not a structure to inhabit; it is a state of being we extend, beginning with the disciplined steadiness of one’s own nervous system. To be a…

Russia and China abstain as Arab and Muslim nations endorse international stabilization mission November 17, 2025 — In a rare moment of consensus on the Middle East, the United Nations Security Council voted 13–0 on Monday to adopt a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing former President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza and authorizing the creation…