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As the 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh approaches on February 12, political tension has reached its peak. Major political parties have unveiled their election manifestos, filled with ambitious promises of reform, governance, and public welfare. However, interviews with general voters reveal a deep-seated skepticism regarding the implementation of these pledges. Major Parties and Their…

by Asif Showkat Kallol ( Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s interim government has found itself navigating a deepening economic crisis, weighed down by a mountain of debt accumulated during the tenure of the ousted Awami League administration. What was once presented as a development-driven borrowing strategy has now hardened into a structural burden, forcing the state into…

The Olympic truce was born as a radical moral principle: the conviction that war must fall silent, even if only briefly, to allow human encounter on equal terms. It was not diplomacy nor spectacle, but a deliberate suspension of violence as an affirmation of shared humanity. That principle gave birth to the Games. Without it,…

There is a point in the exercise of power at which scandal ceases to be an accident and becomes a method. A point at which provocation no longer seeks applause and instead measures impunity. A point —deeply dangerous— at which power no longer needs to disguise itself as civilization because it has verified that nothing,…

We are a couple of Brazilian university professors, senior researchers of alternatives to environmental collapse, who have been visiting communities that offer alternatives to the society that is causing this collapse. For over two decades, we have been visiting ecovillages, intentional communities, indigenous tribes, and eco-places where environmental regeneration and a lifestyle of non-consumption are…

The expiration of the New Start treaty on February 5th coincided with the end of the last major treaty limiting weapons of mass destruction. The United States government rejected the Russian proposal to extend the treaty. The treaty was signed by President Obama and Russian Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in 2010 and was aiming to…

The group of courageous nonviolent activists who have been walking in recent days through wind, rain, and hail has set off again from Santiago de Compostela, a symbolic place that epitomizes all the pilgrimages that have marked European history. As the participants emphasize, the Peace Walk to Jerusalem is not only a demonstration for peace…

Once again this year, Burmese exiles around the world commemorated the anniversary of the military coup of February 1, 2021, which put an end to an experiment in democracy that had lasted almost a decade, always on a knife edge, and led to the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi and many other politicians from…

David interviews Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, retired professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation on the Davids Campaign and the urgent need to renew nonviolent strategies in the Middle East. The campaign seeks to support individuals and movements working to transform destructive and abusive power dynamics in Israel, Palestine, and Gaza—particularly…

Pressenza International Press Agency, in collaboration with the International Center for the Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, will host an online workshop titled “The Responsibility of Our Time: Becoming Good Ancestors for Future Generations” on February 15 at 3:00 PM (ET). The workshop will explore how current political and security decisions—particularly those related to nuclear weapons…