Autor: pacifista

The Hidden Nervous System of the Digital Economy In the popular imagination, the internet is often depicted as an intangible cloud floating above the planet. The physical reality, however, is very different. Beneath the world’s oceans lies a vast network of fiber-optic cables that forms the true nervous system of the digital economy. More than…

Group warns against mercury-tainted cream that promises ‘even and velvety skin tone’ 6 March 2026, Quezon City.  As the commemoration of the National Women’s Month gets underway, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged women to celebrate their natural skin tone, stressing “the skin color you’re born with is not a flaw to be corrected.”…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s energy authorities have imposed limits on fuel sales for vehicles across the country after long queues formed at petrol stations amid fears of supply disruptions linked to instability in the Middle East. In a notice issued on Friday, the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) announced that motorists will no…

In recent years, a growing number of observers across the world have begun to question whether the principles of international law are applied equally to all nations. The ideals of human rights, sovereignty, and the rules of war are frequently presented as universal standards meant to guide global conduct. Yet the realities of contemporary geopolitics…

The “politically inconvenient” truth is that the US is unilaterally reshaping the world order in a bid to restore unipolarity, and regardless of one’s opinion about this, it’s objectively achieved some tangible progress as of late. Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett announced that Indian refiners had just been provided with a 30-day waiver to purchase Russian…

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution…

  (Credit image Wikipedia: patriarchal ancestors, the cyclops monsters drinking wine) Today most occidental organizations are rooted in historical European, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian traditions. Even though the women’s movement has succeeded to bring great changes in the world, these organizations and structures still influence the world and events with a monocular vision – (a cyclops’…

Professorat, educadors socials, entitats juvenils o monitors de lleure sovint es troben amb una pregunta difícil: com parlar amb joves de racisme, desigualtats, crisi climàtica o drets humans sense caure en discursos abstractes? Per donar eines concretes a aquests espais educatius, l’Institut NOVACT de Noviolència i el Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL) publiquem cinc manuals…

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 27 2026 (IPS) – As US President Donald Trump pushes the world to war, arms spending has been rising worldwide. Wars secure more budgetary allocations, mainly benefiting the US-dominated military-industrial complex. US military spending increases After bombing Venezuela, the Trump administration raised its war budget from $1.0…

By: Alain Ruoy, IPB Vice President and Le Mouvement de la Paix President French | English On April 2, 2026, at L’Ile Longue nuclear military base in Brittany, Emmanuel Macron gave an extremely bellicose, dangerous, and irresponsible speech on French nuclear weapons. Macron developed a new concept, that of “advanced deterrence”, which consists of positioning…