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Overcrowded and Mixed with Adults: Bangladesh’s Child Development Centers Face Severe Crisis
By Halim Mohammad (Dhaka Bureau) Caught in a web of legal complexities, delayed judicial processes, and severe infrastructural limitations, Child Development Centers in Bangladesh (formerly known as juvenile correction homes) are facing an acute crisis. Operating at more than double their intended capacity, these facilities are grappling with a severe humanitarian situation. Severe overcrowding, intense…
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Global Urge to Conserve Tigers to Protect Ecosystem and Earth
Local Communities at the Heart By Salina Sultana (Dhaka Bureau) Image created with the support of ai World Tiger Day was observed with the theme, ‘Let’s all be aware, let’s conserve tigers.’ Initiated at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia in 2010, the primary objective of this global movement is to protect the natural…
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The Price that “Babaylan” Women Leaders Paid
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.” The adage that economists used to explain opportunity cost also applies to the invisible cost that comes with every gain or action. The environment and humans who are dependent on them usually pay the price. But billing is not evenly distributed. Dues are charged asymmetrically across…
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The Ant’s Path: China Answers the Chip Blockade with Asia’s Largest Market Debut
The memory chipmaker CXMT soared 466% in its Shanghai Stock Exchange debut and became, in a single session, the most valuable company listed in mainland China. The scene repeats a familiar pattern: every time the United States raises a technological wall, Beijing responds by building its own door. The Chinese semiconductor company ChangXin Memory Technologies…
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Trump’s Authoritarian Play Against Foreign Journalists
Under a new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security, the duration of “I visas” for foreign media will be slashed from renewable multi year periods—often up to five years—to a maximum of 240 days, and just 90 days for Chinese journalists. Renewals would no longer be a routine administrative step, but a discretionary…
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Humanist Geopolitics
Power May Govern the World, but It Should Not Govern the Conscience “The twenty-first century does not need less geopolitics. It needs a geopolitics that remembers that every border also has a human face…” The history of humanity has largely been the history of power. Empires, states, alliances, wars, and revolutions shaped the planet’s political…
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From the Great Basin to Gaza: How Nevada’s Data Centers Power a Surveillance Pipeline That Ends at Our Doorstep
The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank has been well-documented by journalists, reporters, and activists in Israel and the United States. Less known is the close collaboration between the military and police departments in the United States, which have…
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Who Will Govern Humanity’s New Cognitive Infrastructure?
Humanity faces no shortage of challenges. Wars continue to claim lives, climate change threatens the stability of our ecosystems, and growing economic inequality undermines social cohesion. Now another transformative force has entered the global stage: artificial intelligence. Unlike previous technological revolutions, AI is not simply another tool. It has the potential to reshape economies, education,…
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Peru: Keiko Fujimori Begins Her Term with a Message Lacking Any Admission of Guilt
Finally, on July 28, Keiko Fujimori Higushi took office as the constitutional president of the Republic of Peru, following three previous attempts: in 2011 (against Ollanta Humala), in 2016 (against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski), and in 2021 (against Pedro Castillo). Today she delivered her first address to the nation and swore in the Council of Ministers.…
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AI Wants Your Land, Water, Power
“This is just like a free-for-all. There’s really no oversight. There’s really no regulation.” (Erin Brockovich, Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting) Erin Brockovich is a well-known American consumer advocate who made her name by exposing evidence that Pacific Gas & Electric poisoned the groundwater in Hinkley, California (1996) with toxic hexavalent. Now, she’s investigating AI…