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Communal Harmony in Bangladesh must be maintained

Bangladesh is a country of multi-ethnic culture where people belonging to different religious, racial, cultural, and lingual identities live together harmoniously. Religious harmony has existed in Bengali culture for thousands of years. In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, the Hindus continue to remain…

100-Year-Old Jimmy Carter Shows Us What Courage Looks Like on Israel-Palestine

As we celebrate and reflect on Carter’s life and legacy, let us amplify his call for the U.S. to be a genuine force for peace and justice around the world. By Mustafa Barghouti Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the…

A Year Of Reckoning

The year since Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliation have demonstrated once again that neither has learned anything from decades of horrific violence as they continue to miscalculate each other’s intentions and resolve By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir…

Undercounting Deaths in Gaza While Claiming It’s the Worst War Ever

We generally accept that if you do a census and only count the people who answer their doors you miss some people, and that you can calculate an estimate that reliably gets closer to reality than the list of people…

Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran

On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were…

Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20h Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare

The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian…

BRICS+ Prioritising Expansion to Fight United States Dominance and Western Hegemony

In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed scepticism but was straight to the point about the strategic expansion of BRICS, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.…

Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, was underway and expected 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate…

The Most Important US Presidential Election of Our Lifetime: The Rightward Trajectory of the Two-Party System

Left-liberals plea every four years that this really is the most important election ever and time to hold our noses and send a Democrat to the White House. The manifest destiny of US world leadership, we are told, is at…

Thomas Merton on US Militarism

Our Government is facilitating mass slaughter. The two political parties running for President are complicit. The Catholic monk Thomas Merton’s writings on US militarism were censored and often forbidden. He resorted to sending his work privately, much unknown until after…

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