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Venezuela in a Time of Geopolitical Climate Change
A reactionary wave is sweeping Latin America. Since the elections of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in July 2024 and Uruguay’s Yamandú Orsi in November 2024, all seven of the subsequent direct presidential contests have gone to the right. By Roger D. Harris The Maduro election is widely assumed by the US-aligned corporate press to have been…
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Digital Blackout: Bangladesh Card Payments Resume After Two-Day Sabotage Crisis
Maksuda Lisa (Dhaka Bureau) Card and ATM services across Bangladesh resumed late on Tuesday following an unprecedented two-day digital blackout that left millions of citizens stranded without access to cash withdrawals, retail payments, or even basic balance checks. The crisis, triggered by allegations of sabotage by a sanctioned Russian software supplier within the nation’s main…
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Upholding Peace and Diversity: Mahila Parishad Calls for Communal Harmony Ahead of Sharadiya Durgotsav
Taskina Yeasmin Dhaka Bureau) Amid rising concerns over digital hate speech and fringe extremism, civil society leaders in Bangladesh urge the state and citizens to safeguard human rights and protect pluralistic traditions. Ahead of Sharadiya Durgotsav- the Hindu community’s largest religious festival-civil rights advocates, women leaders, and peace campaigners gathered outside the National Press Club…
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to Pay Four-Day Visit to Japan on October 26
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to embark on a four-day official visit to Japan on October 26, at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The upcoming visit is expected to bring discussions on economy, investment, energy, infrastructure, and skilled manpower export to the forefront. Running from October 26 to 29, the tour…
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Solo Painting Exhibition Titled ‘Muktir Shongrame Anubhob-er Boibhav’ Held at DU Faculty of Fine Art
Taskina Yeasmin (Dhaka Bureau) The week-long solo painting exhibition titled ‘Muktir Shongrame Anubhob-er Boibhav’ (The Splendor of Feelings in the Struggle for Liberation) by Professor Dr. Md. Azharul Islam Sheikh (Chanchal), Dean of the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Dhaka (DU) and a prominent ceramic artist and researcher, is drawing to a…
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Three years since October 7
Three years after October 7, our Palestinian and Israeli team came together. Severe closures across the West Bank meant we could not meet in person, so we met online, and each of us was invited to share what this day meant to us. Fatima, our Palestinian Education Coordinator, spoke first. She shared memories of her…
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EcoWaste Coalition Welcomes Successive FDA Advisories on Unauthorized Skin Lightening Products that Pose Mercury Exposure Risk
Group urges Pakistan to stop production of mercury-laced beauty creams to get rid of the supply at the source 7 October 2026, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition lauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing public health warnings against unauthorized skin lightening products from Pakistan, which may cause mercury exposure risks to…
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Weaving Threads of Hope: How the Philippines United Local Communities and Global Visions for Peace and Integral Regeneration
By: Rubenson Bilag, Marina Bid-Ing, Peter Canggat Jr., Oliver Ngiwas, Cynthia Calavera, Faithfulyn Colian, Jocelyn Pilas, Cherrie Ann Pintado, and Meling Solis In an era defined by rapid geopolitical fragmentation, digital isolation, and mounting environmental distress, the pursuit of peace can often feel like an isolated cry into a vast, indifferent void. Yet, on October…
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I’m Going to Tell You the Truth
In a World of Ready-Made Fiction, Truth Requires Work During a summer BBQ weekend, a progressive peace activist friend and I were having a very casual conversation when she expressed doubts about whether humans had really landed on the moon. Her argument was simple: We only went once, and that makes it suspicious. I was too…
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Which Way Is Peace?
Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at event with War Is Still A Lie Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting this event up. I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them…