Autor: pacifista

  • MET’s Gallery Exhibit Entry  for this Year’s MGM

    MET’s Gallery Exhibit Entry  for this Year’s MGM

    Manila, Philippines – Metropolitan Theater (MET) Gallery kickstarted the Museum and Galleries Month (MGM) with the opening of “A Meditation on Systems”, featuring the art of Dexter Lira with Marius Black and Tad Pagaduan. The opening ceremony was held last October 1 and commenced with welcome remarks delivered by LIFE Inc. President, Mr. Arnel Guadalupe…

  • Europe must prioritize consistency and de-escalation at the space–nuclear nexus

    Europe faces impending instability at the space–nuclear nexus in today’s changing strategic environment. This essay considers how European states are responding to these strategic shifts in the space and nuclear domains.

  • October 7 — When the World Starts the Story in the Middle

    October 7 — When the World Starts the Story in the Middle

    Three years have passed since October 7, 2023, yet much of the world still begins the story on that morning. As if Palestinians suddenly woke up that day and decided to enter history. As if Gaza had not already been under blockade. As if the West Bank and East Jerusalem had not already been under…

  • “Sedey:” Traditional Ways of Protecting Spaces in Sagada, Mountain Province

    “Sedey:” Traditional Ways of Protecting Spaces in Sagada, Mountain Province

    By Delfin G. Lasdacan During my childhood days, I often encountered “Sedey,” usually placed at entrances, pathways, or places where people were going. I remember seeing a simple stick or grass-bamboo “miscanthus sinensis” with leaves tied to it. I did not fully understand what it meant. I only knew that whenever my grandmother saw a…

  • When the Sea Comes for the Land: Bangladesh’s Quiet Climate Migration

    When the Sea Comes for the Land: Bangladesh’s Quiet Climate Migration

    Displacement along Bangladesh’s southern coast doesn’t always look like a disaster. Most of the time, it isn’t one. A field stops producing the way it used to. The nearest freshwater source dries up a little more each year. Someone’s son or husband leaves for the city because finding work at home has become increasingly difficult.…

  • Dhaka Signals Economic Sovereignty and Independent Diplomacy, Sidestepping Geopolitical Pressures

    Dhaka Signals Economic Sovereignty and Independent Diplomacy, Sidestepping Geopolitical Pressures

    By Mynul Hasan Sohel, Dhaka Bureau, Rejecting blind alignment or appeasement politics with any superpower bloc, Bangladesh has firmly declared that national interest and people-centric development needs must form the core foundation of its foreign relations. Speaking at the agreement signing ceremony in Dhaka on October 7 between the national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines…

  • The Rain’s Rebellion

    The Rain’s Rebellion

    By Maria Theresa M. Calde Welcome to Baguio City, where the sun and the clouds meet. One minute, the sun is out and shining brightly– the next, it is completely covered, and the sky begins to cry. I don’t know if it is a contest between the two, but one thing is certain. Always bring…

  • Protecting the People Behind the Gold: Why Small-Scale Miners Need More Than Regulation

    Protecting the People Behind the Gold: Why Small-Scale Miners Need More Than Regulation

    An Open Letter on the Recent Tragedy Involving Small-scale Miners in Itogon, Benguet, Philippines  by Leoncio Na-oy The deaths of seven small-scale miners in Itogon, Benguet, on September 30, 2026, should not become another entry in the long history of mining accidents in the Philippines. Behind every number are fathers, sons, brothers, and members of…

  • Indo-Pacific — 600 Million Children — the Future That Already Has Owners

    Indo-Pacific — 600 Million Children — the Future That Already Has Owners

    They are under ten years old. They live in the Indo-Pacific. The future is already doing business around them “They are 600 million and they are not yet ten years old. While they learn to read, add, and distinguish one map from another, governments, banks, corporations, armies, and markets are already calculating what they will…

  • A Clarion Call: “La Bataille De Gaulle”

    A Clarion Call: “La Bataille De Gaulle”

    This film bursts onto a French political, economic, and cultural scene that has been steeped in Americanism, globalism, and Europeanism for half a century. Today’s France is the antithesis of Gaullism. It is fully integrated into the American imperial system and is at an advanced stage of fusion—possibly dissolution—within the supranational European Union and NATO,…