Autor: pacifista

New set of demonstrations are happening in Iran. It started with the merchants of Tehran and some big cities closed their shops as a protest movement to the unaffordability of life in Iran and the horrible unstable economy in the country, alongside all other problems. And the demonstrations have expanded to people in the streets…

At the Punta de Vacas Study and Reflection Park, a place far from the centers of power but very close to the deep heartbeat of Humanity, Silo—founder of New Humanism—delivered a brief but very meaningful greeting at the beginning of the local calendar year 2010: “We should celebrate a new year in each cultural calendar,…

Introduction I consider this article, which is actually a six-page essay that I’ve divided here into two parts, to be one of the very best pieces of socio-political writing that I’ve penned to date. In fact, I’m confident that if you read it in full you’ll get a fresh, fleshed out viewpoint that isn’t compromised…

2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise in drug use and crime is driven by neoliberalism’s failure…

The people of Bangladesh have bid a final farewell to former Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia with unprecedented respect and love. She was laid to rest with full state honors beside the grave of her husband, former President Ziaur Rahman. On behalf of the state, she was accorded a…

The India-Bangladesh border has emerged as the most volatile geopolitical flashpoint in South Asia. Unprecedented activity by the Indian Army in the Siliguri Corridor- popularly known as the ‘Chicken’s Neck’- and Dhaka’s subsequent diplomatic maneuvers signal a complex turning point in bilateral relations. The Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal, a narrow strip of land only…

As the sun slowly sets on 2025, it casts long shadows of both triumph and trial. This year, like life itself, unfolded between moments of success that inspired us and moments of failure that humbled us. It became a living dialogue between faith and fate—faith in what humanity can become, and fate in the challenges…

1 January 2026, Manila City/Quezon City. As the Zero Waste Month is observed this January and as the preparations for the January 9 Feast of Black Nazarene go full blast, a waste and pollution watchdog group exhorted the Roman Catholic Church and the faithful to make this year’s Traslacion trash-free, stressing the responsibility of every…

More than a year after his detention without charges, without trial, and without minimum guarantees of due process, the Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya remains imprisoned by Israel under conditions denounced as inhuman by international human rights organizations. Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, Abu Safiya was detained…

The entire nation of Bangladesh is overwhelmed with grief following the death of Begum Khaleda Zia, the country’s first female Prime Minister and a figure renowned in political history as the ‘Uncompromising Leader.‘ On the morning of December 30, the people of Bangladesh were struck with profound sorrow upon waking up to the news of…