Autor: pacifista

Over the past month, Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have begun dismantling the myth of the “American dream,” replacing glossy imagery with firsthand accounts showing that life in the so-called “land of the free” is far from bright and picturesque. In its place, a new concept has emerged, borrowed from video games,…

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to wield power are those who have never sought it. Those who are forced to assume leadership, accept it because they must, and discover, to their own surprise, that they wield it well.” Albus Dumbledore. Contemporary societies tend to explain political violence,…

Moving “Gestapo Greg” Bovino out of Minneapolis was a Trump administration costume change as the assaults on constitutional democracy and immigrants grind on in each of our communities. Meanwhile, multiple crises, from the climate emergency to nuclear weapons, increased poverty, and more, are ignored. In no position to compete with the frightening and inspiring headlines…

As the United States international finance capital concentrated the deployment of hundred military bases spread across the world to form a huge military complex. Thanks to the supply chain of Canada, millions of tons of copper, nickel, iron, aluminium and rare earth elements have been shipped to the United States since World War II. These…

Almost simultaneously with the hearings at the International Court of Justice, which ended yesterday, January 29, and will now see the Court assessing the evidence provided by both Gambian and Myanmar lawyers regarding the genocide of the Rohingya, on Sunday, January 25, what the Burmese call sham elections came to an end in Myanmar. This…

When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. By Medea Benjamin I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about…

The Nigerian government is pushing to restart oil production in Ogoniland, more than 30 years after operations were halted. This decision has reignited long-standing tensions in the Niger Delta. The Ogoni people have been at the forefront of a nonviolent struggle to combat the destruction of the region’s ecosystem, which has had serious health and…

Demands for Political Will and Inter-Ministerial Coordination by Rita Bhowmik (Dhaka Bureau) Ahead of the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh, eminent citizens and environmentalists have issued a stern demand to the government to protect the country’s endangered haors (wetlands), canals, and water bodies. They warned that if the enforcement of existing laws and…

As International Zero Waste Month draws to a close, environmental NGO BAN Toxics urged the Philippine government to abandon plans to pursue waste-to-energy (WTE) as a solution to the country’s escalating waste problem. The call came after Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced during the 25th anniversary of RA 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act…

Redirecting Iran’s oil exports from China to India in exchange for partial US sanctions relief could avert another American attack by satisfying its goal of depriving China of some of the resources that it requires for maintaining its rapid superpower rise without risking a potentially disastrous regional war. The US’ deployment of an aircraft carrier…