Autor: pacifista

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…

Muradabad is a village in Islampur, Jamalpur. During the Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistani occupation forces established a camp at the local police station, just three kilometers from this village. The invaders would abduct innocent women from the village, bring them to this camp, and subject them to inhumane torture. Unintentionally, a ten-year-old boy…

(Group pitches for “Ruzcel law” to address illegal use and disposal of firecrackers and fireworks) 30 December 2025, Quezon City.  The environmental watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition commiserated today with the family, classmates, and friends of Caezar Ruzcel R. Sarmiento of Barangay 226, Tondo, Manila, who died from a firecracker blast last December 28, while his…

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the traditional cosmological narrative and invites us to think of the Universe not as a neat succession of closed stages, but as a rough, non-homogeneous process filled with persistent remnants. For decades, the history of the…

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, and reality “decides.” The notion of neocoherence proposes another reading: not the disappearance of quantum order, but its persistent transformation into a dynamic equilibrium that sustains the world we inhabit. For much of…

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and again. Perhaps the problem lies not only in the models, but in the language through which we think them and in the implicit order by which we articulate them. For decades,…

The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of the general election on 28 December 2025 amid a civil war-like situation across the Southeast Asian nation with visibly low voter turnout. It covered 102 out of 330 townships (loosely termed for constituencies), even though many localities evaded the voting as…