Politics

Luxury SUVs carried important people into important buildings for important events. And between us and the importance, there were police with rifles strapped to their chests. By Danaka Katovich This blog originally appeared here on Proof That I’m Alive. A…

“I criticized the Terrorism Act before getting on the plane, then got arrested under the Terrorism Act upon landing.” Richard Medhurst, a Syrian-British independent journalist who defends Palestinians’ right to resist Israeli apartheid, occupation, and other crimes, said this week…

The first half of 2024 saw new coal-fired power plant approvals fall significantly in China, a new report by Greenpeace East Asia said. A series of permits in the past two years had raised concerns about how committed the country’s government was to limiting climate…

While party platforms are usually full of insincere popular promises, this year’s from the Democrats spits in the face of the majority of Democrats who want peace. Normally, U.S. political party platforms should not be read as outlines of what…

Geneva: Press  Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, called the interim government of Bangladesh to initiate a fast probe into the murder of five journalists in the last few weeks and punish the culprits under the…

A bombshell article published in the Washington Post on 15 August claims that India pressed the United States to tone down its criticism of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and to scuttle any fresh sanctions against her neighbouring Bangladesh. The article…

Spending the last weeks in the Western Balkans, trying to understand trends and tensions in the region on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement and its ratification in Paris and the celebration of 11 July as…

Guwahati: As the voices against the atrocities on Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh get mounted across India and many parts of the globe, the head of the interim Bangla government in Dhaka made a call to Prime Minister Narendra…

When Barack Obama ran for president of the United States sixteen years ago, he snipped at his staff that they were pretending that he was not black. Of course this is an issue, he apparently said. Sixteen years later, the…

Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkul Karman, known as “The Mother of the Revolution,” once said, Youth is a revolution; they cannot be stopped, they cannot be suppressed, and they cannot be silenced. Karman’s words came true in Bangladesh on August…