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Goodbye 2025, Globally a Deadlier Year for Scribes
Guwahati : As the year 2025 bids farewell, it emerged as a deadlier year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. At least 165 media professionals were killed in 31 countries, where 2024 witnessed 179 journo-casualties around the world, said the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC),…
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SAARC is being revived!
Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions and security concerns between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the process of reviving the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has officially begun! It has been reported that this initiative is being spearheaded by Bangladesh, a strategic partner and one of the founding architects of the organization. Recently, Professor Dr. Muhammad…
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After Venezuela: Six plausible scenarios on the new Game of Thrones board
The intervention of the United States in Venezuela marks a political turning point that goes far beyond the Venezuelan case itself. It is not merely a concrete operation, but an operational precedent: the decision to act de facto outside the constraints of international law and to openly assume the political cost of doing so. From…
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The prince unmasked: declining hegemony, structural blackmail, and the geopolitics of systemic chokepoints
Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term prospects of reversal, it tends to abandon the order it created and to actively transform…
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How Lavrov’s Philosophy of “Ubuntu” Reflects on the Level of Africa’s Media Presence in Russia
(Moscow Bureau) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has sharply criticised the near absence of African media presence in the Russian Federation, arguing that this gap undermines the development of a positive and balanced Russia–Africa relationship. Speaking at the plenary session of the Ministerial Conference held in Cairo, Egypt, Lavrov noted the lack of African…
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Achtung Baby Boomers
I’m noticing some of my fellow Democrats squealing about Trump’s not going through Congress before kidnapping a democratically elected president (a notion that’s already riddled with contradictions, as if US congressional approval would have been justification to shatter all standards of international law). Do you team blue guys/gals/etc. Actually believe that Biden or Obama or…
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Zohran Mamdani, new mayor of New York: “I will not abandon my principles for fear of being considered radical.”
New year, new mayor: 2026 had begun just a few minutes earlier when Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York in the presence of family members, some colleagues, and the state attorney general, Letitia James, who presided over the ceremony. It was a moment of great symbolic significance, starting with the location:…
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“We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela
I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the country being spoken about as if it were a possession, what I heard was very clear. And that clarity was chilling. The president said, plainly, that the United…
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Marcia della pace domani a Bologna
Riceviamo e pubblichiamo dal Comune di Bologna Marcia della pace, giovedì 1 gennaio appuntamento alle 14.45 in piazza VIII Agosto Sarà presente il sindaco Matteo Lepore In occasione della Giornata mondiale della pace, domani giovedì 1 gennaio il Comune di Bologna aderisce alla marcia promossa dalla Rete regionale Pace e Nonviolenza, a sostegno dell’impegno contro…
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‘Overcoming the crisis and global uncertainty: humanity in action’, the IV Assembly of the World Humanist Forum calls for joint action.
Under the title ‘Overcoming the crisis and global uncertainty: humanity in action’, the IV Open Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will take place on 24th and 25th January 2026. The central theme of this Assembly aims to reflect both the difficulties faced today by communities across the globe and the faith in humanity’s ability…