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When Risk and Expensive Credit Are Only for ‘Poor Countries’: The G7’s Global Credit Double Standard
When Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley posed her question to the heart of the global financial order—why was quantitative easing anathema to the Global South until the G7 needed it?—she was not making a technical inquiry. She unleashed a moral challenge onto the table of those who govern the world economy. Her question is…
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The Arctic–Greenland–Florida Conga
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget), from October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, As of year-end, the status of the Arctic and Greenland presents the world…
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Journalist killed in Bangladesh, PEC Demands Thorough Probe
Geneva (Switzerland): Engulfed with political unrest while heading for its national election on 12 February 2026, Bangladesh recorded the murder of journalist Rana Pratap Bairagi, who incidentally becomes the first journo-victim across the world this year. The global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) strongly condemned the shooting down of Bairagi (45)…
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“Reduce Waste at Home, Make Zero Waste A Daily Habit” – BAN Toxics
January marks International Zero Waste Month, a growing global observance that calls for systemic action from governments, industries, and all sectors to reduce waste at its source and prevent pollution. The movement began in the Philippines in 2012 through the Zero Waste Youth Initiative and was formally recognized in 2014 with Presidential Proclamation No. 760,…
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Hill Tourism: Infrastructure and Security as Major Hurdles to Bright Prospects
By Sharmin Rahman Sumi (Dhaka Bureau) The Chattogram Hill Tracts have emerged as a premier destination on the country’s tourism map, yet the surge in footfall is exposing deep-seated structural gaps and security vulnerabilities. The rolling hills, mist-shrouded peaks, and vibrant indigenous cultures of Rangamati, Bandarban, and Khagrachhari continue to draw record numbers of domestic…
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O’ Canada, how long can your facade stand, while wielding a genocidal hand?
For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking, and cracking fast. For too long, Canada has cloaked its inaction and complicity, rather spectacularly, behind political correctness. But as the global crises grow more brutal — and more visible — it has…
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Celebration of Toussaint Louverture, symbol of emancipation – April 2026
‘By cutting me down, Saint-Domingue has only broken the trunk of the tree of black freedom; it will grow back from its roots, for they are many and deep,’ declared Toussaint Louverture on 12 June 1802 in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti. Revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian uprising for the abolition of slavery and emancipation…
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Venezuela and the United States, ‘Enough is enough!’
In less than twelve hours after the kidnapping of Venezuelan Head of State Nicolas Maduro by the Trump-led American government, over a hundred cities across the United States mobilised; on Sunday 4 January, another forty joined the protests. I have just returned from a well-attended rally in front of the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn,…
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The sovereignty of Canada can be reaffirmed thanks to the Inuit Circumpolar Council values of disarmament, nonviolent conflict resolution, and international cooperation
Today the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending Greenland’s sovereignty in the wake of Trump’s comments about Greenland. For decades, Canada and the United States have been strategic allies and defence partners. But it wasn’t always that way. U.S. President Donald…
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EcoWaste Coalition Assembles in Plaza Miranda to Press for a Waste-Free Conduct of Traslacion 2026
January 6, 2026, Manila City/Quezon City. Three days before the reenactment of Traslacion, the EcoWaste Coalition gathered in Plaza Miranda (a Freedom Park) in front of the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno to reiterate its call for waste prevention and reduction. Together with Samahan ng mga Mangangalakal sa Capulong and the Barangay…