When Alfred Nobel created his celebrated prize in 1895, he imagined honoring those who ‘have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.’ A...
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A conversation about Shakespeare with echoes in the present
Interview with Dimitris Eleas about William Shakespeare What follows is what was said between Dimitris Sakislidis* and me for the bibliophilic website Bookia, on the occasion of my book When Shakespeare Was Lost, 1585–1592, published in Athens by the historic...
A Historic Turning Point: The UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the Global Abolition of Surrogacy
New York – October 10, 2025. At the UN, Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calls for the universal abolition of surrogacy: a historic turning point for women’s and children’s rights. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on...
Anatomy of Illegal Power on the Planet
“Illegal power is neither periphery nor shadow; it is a global system fed by formal politics and the formal economy” — inspired by Lucía Dammert Illegal power is neither accident nor exception. It is a parallel system spanning continents, sustained by collusion with...
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning.
When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s...
Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and victims of Western empire. But it has...
Why Does Poland Refuse To Hand Over A Nord Stream Bombing Suspect To Germany?
Tusk would defy public opinion, doom the ruling liberal-globalist coalition’s already dismal prospects of remaining in power after fall 2027’s next parliamentary election, and risk facilitating a German show trial that could implicate Poland in this attack for...
Korea-based Indigenous Jumma People’s Community Calls for Justice in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Condemning Atrocities by the Bangladeshi Army
On 4 October 2025, the indigenous Jumma People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts living in South Korea organized a public rally in central Seoul against the attack and killing of their fellow people in southeastern Bangladesh by the Bangladesh Army on September 27-28,...
CHED-CAR Recognizes BCU for Excellence In Internationalization During the FLAIR-UPLIFT Masterclass 2025
FLAIR-UPLIFT Part III CHED-CAR’s Gawad Parangal sa Pandaigdigan Kahusayan The Upscaling Programs and Projects, Leveraging Internationalization and Futures Thinking (UPLIFT) Masterclass 2025 is a key initiative led by CHED-CAR in collaboration with Saint Louis...
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal...
Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela
Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combatting “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism. By Roger D. Harris Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean...
An Ethnic Ukrainian Lobby Might Soon Take Shape In The Polish Sejm
Poland’s territorial integrity and possibly even its statehood could be threatened if the authorities don’t thwart this scenario by at the very least amending the Citizenship Law and then “creatively coercing” most of this community into re-migrating to Ukraine....











