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Anti-militarist activism Wednesday in the USA

On the eleventh anniversary of the reopening of the illegal prison and torture centre at Guantánamo Bay, a demonstration in Washington D.C. on Wednesday demanded that US President Joe Biden close the naval base on Cuban soil. Demonstrators outside the…

Malawi endures worst cholera outbreak in decades

The cholera case reported by the district hospital in Malawi’s southern region on 3 March 2022 was the first of the 2021-2022 season, and a warning of what was to come: the worst cholera outbreak recorded in the African country…

Sergey Poletaev: Russia, Ukraine, the EU and the US have something in common – their illusions were shattered in 2022

All the key players in the current conflict spent years kidding themselves, and peace will only come when they accept reality By Sergey Poletaev The Russian military offensive in Ukraine has set in motion a chain of events that has…

Can Donald Lu’s Bangladesh visit restore his credibility in South Asia?

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in…

51 years of Myanmar-Bangladesh ties

January 13, 2023, marked 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was…

EU: Companies with more than 100 employees must disclose wages to make pay gaps visible

The European Council, the Commission and the Parliament have agreed on the main points of the new EU Pay Transparency Directive. The directive aims to end the pay gap between women and men. In the future, companies with more than…

A thousand scientists sign for civil disobedience: scientists and activists call for a moratorium on Lützerath and block the entrance of RWE headquarters

Essen, 13.01.2022: since 7 AM in the morning, 20 activists from Extinction Rebellion and 7 scientists from Scientist Rebellion have been blocking the headquarters of the German energy company RWE in Essen. 3 activists chained themselves to the gate. Their…

Argentina: “They want the Mapuche to be submissive and impoverished, they can’t accept that we have an autonomous path”.

On January 4, it has been three months since federal forces broke into the territory of the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu in Villa Mascardi (Bariloche) and took Mapuche women and children into custody. Four of them are still under house…

Organised local power needs to rescue municipalities from corrupt clutches in Chile

Part of the dynamic of Chilean municipal politics is that every time a councillor loses his or her subsequent re-election, we learn of pronounced deficits in the municipal coffers. Thus, we have emblematic cases of Virginia Reginato in Viña del…

I worked at Centro Arte Alameda during the Chilean social upheaval

For more than 70 days, every time I was about to leave my house on my way to work, my stomach started to hurt, and I felt a strong pressure in my chest that didn’t let me breathe. I was…

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