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The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow October 31st thru November 12th may be the most significant climate conference of all time. The fate of the planet is on the line. Prior to that august event, hundreds of peer-reviewed…

BOOK REVIEW   One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, by Mahboob A. Khawaja, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 12/2019, 537 Pages   Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. in interdisciplinary Social Science (Syracuse University, New York, USA),…

Dear media editors around the world, Melting glaciers, wildfires, droughts, deadly heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, loss of biodiversity. These are all symptoms of a destabilizing planet, which are happening around us all the time. Those are the kind of things you…

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich? By Sister Karen M. Donahue Right now, the United States is locked in a contentious debate over the Build…

The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic…

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. “Has civilization taught us to be more friendly towards one another?  Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual and explains further:  …Within the herd, we are more friendly to each other than are many species…

by Pathik Hasan Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui’s recent meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was comprehensively covered in the media. It only shows the strategic significance of the meeting. The meeting has messages for the…

The coronavirus, instead of becoming a cohesive factor in the fight against a common enemy, turned out to be the opposite, because of absurd ambitions within the neoliberal model, which has not only lost legitimacy, but constitutes one of the…

by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury  Despite ruthless criticism from the political opponents of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proved that his government has been committedly working for the people of the country. Bangladesh…

Pink, whether it is a fashion color for women that bloomed in Europe in the 1700s or a health color for the breast cancer awareness campaign throughout October (from 1985 in the United States till it became international), it largely…