Autor: pacifista

While media attention focuses on international conflicts and geopolitical realignments, the most profound crisis facing the United States today is internal. It is not only economic or political, but existential: the unraveling of a system built on material expansion that no longer provides orientation, coherence, or meaning to those living within it. The United States…

Civil Society Urges New Chair to Enforce Greater Transparency, Inclusivity Geneva, Switzerland – Member States convened in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 7th of February for INC-5.3 to elect a new Chair of the plastics treaty negotiations. Today, they formally elected Julio Cordano, diplomat and Director of Environment, Climate Change, and Oceans at the Ministry of Foreign…

Guwahati: Amid all chaos, where the ethnic armed groups continue offensives against the ruling Myanmar military junta across the Buddhist majority country, the Sanatani Hindus celebrated the 75th Maha Ramayana Harinama Ram chanting festival in the Rakhine/Arakan province in the western border of the Southeast Asian nation.  The four-day festival was held in the Maungdaw…

Regarding the new report by the United Nations University (20 January 2026), Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era. Questions. 1. A report for a new global water agenda? The report (72 pages), published by the United Nations University, states several times: “Terms such as ‘water stress’ and ‘water crisis’…

As the 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh approaches on February 12, political tension has reached its peak. Major political parties have unveiled their election manifestos, filled with ambitious promises of reform, governance, and public welfare. However, interviews with general voters reveal a deep-seated skepticism regarding the implementation of these pledges. Major Parties and Their…

by Asif Showkat Kallol ( Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s interim government has found itself navigating a deepening economic crisis, weighed down by a mountain of debt accumulated during the tenure of the ousted Awami League administration. What was once presented as a development-driven borrowing strategy has now hardened into a structural burden, forcing the state into…

The Olympic truce was born as a radical moral principle: the conviction that war must fall silent, even if only briefly, to allow human encounter on equal terms. It was not diplomacy nor spectacle, but a deliberate suspension of violence as an affirmation of shared humanity. That principle gave birth to the Games. Without it,…

There is a point in the exercise of power at which scandal ceases to be an accident and becomes a method. A point at which provocation no longer seeks applause and instead measures impunity. A point —deeply dangerous— at which power no longer needs to disguise itself as civilization because it has verified that nothing,…

We are a couple of Brazilian university professors, senior researchers of alternatives to environmental collapse, who have been visiting communities that offer alternatives to the society that is causing this collapse. For over two decades, we have been visiting ecovillages, intentional communities, indigenous tribes, and eco-places where environmental regeneration and a lifestyle of non-consumption are…

The expiration of the New Start treaty on February 5th coincided with the end of the last major treaty limiting weapons of mass destruction. The United States government rejected the Russian proposal to extend the treaty. The treaty was signed by President Obama and Russian Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in 2010 and was aiming to…