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Iran, Hormuz, China, and India: The Half-Truths of a War Washington Can Start but Can No Longer Decide Alone “Trump can move aircraft carriers, bombers, and sanctions; what he cannot do is remove Putin from the chessboard, silence China’s needs, or force India to forget that a war in Hormuz can also become an Asian…

Feels like we, the people all over the world, live in a fool’s paradise after seeing the press statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry, which has reportedly labelled 4,241 Rohingya living in Bangladesh camps as “terrorists”. The claim is being presented as a statement of fact. It is not. It’s a propaganda weapon, and as…

Pressenza has already followed the recent run of progressive primary victories in the United States, and its English edition has reported on Abdul El-Sayed’s post-primary positions on Hamas, Israel and Gaza. Two weeks after his victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, however, the result is worth revisiting — not to repeat election-night coverage, but to…

To live in the occupied West Bank today is to exist within a finely tuned apparatus of deliberate friction. When people outside Palestine think of the Israeli occupation, their minds focus on military incursions, violent raids, and harrowing images of warfare. Those realities are undeniably real and constant. But there is another, quieter layer of…

 It’s almost a foregone conclusion that UK billionaire Chris Hohn has not fallen for one of Donald Trump’s cons, such as investing in a stupid coin that says ‘fight, fight, fight’. OMG, what’s with these billionaire suck-ups that fall for Trump’s juvenile gold bricks, only fitting for The Gong Show (1976-80). A recent interview with billionaire…

Another victory in the Democratic primaries strengthens the progressive movement that led to the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York and the nominations of Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier in various New York districts, as well as Abdul El-Sayed for the Senate and William Lawrence for the House of…

The wave of progressive victories that began with Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York in November 2025 continues in the United States: Democrat Aisha Wahab, a member of the California State Senate since 2022, has won the special election in California’s 14th congressional district. The seat became vacant in April following the resignation…

22 August 2026, Quezon City.  Even with a national ban on lead paint manufacturing, the EcoWaste Coalition found another imported spray paint brand sold online with lead-containing variants. Lead, a highly toxic chemical, harms various bodily functions, severely impacting the brain and nervous system. Bought at a discounted price of P125 per 450 mL can from…

“Is that your amo (master)?”  A middle-aged Filipina on the bus in Rome casually asked me about my companion. That day in 1992, I was with the late Bruno Amoroso, my Italian-Danish professor in Welfare and Environmental Economics.   By 1992, the Soviet Union had collapsed, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and Europe was on the…

Violence is easy to recognise when someone is being beaten, shot or killed. It becomes more difficult when nobody is holding a weapon. Poverty, discrimination, exploitation and repression can restrict a human life just as effectively, although they do so in very different ways and with very different consequences. Simply adding more categories to an…