First it was nitrate, then lithium. Today, green hydrogen. And history threatens to repeat itself. The history we did not learn Chile lost its nitrate and did not even grieve. It was taken away in the name of progress, exploited until only white dust and ghost towns...
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The World Is His Yurt: Dimash and the Architecture of Cultural Dialogue in a Polarized World
(In Kazakh culture, the yurt is the traditional nomadic dwelling: a portable circular structure symbolizing home, hospitality, and community.) “Music alone cannot change the world, but it can change people, and people can change the world.” —Dimash Qudaibergen We live...
Greece: Over a hundred cities join their voices for a free Palestine
On Sunday, August 10, BDS Greece, March to Gaza, and the Palestinian community in Greece organized a national day of action on islands and tourist destinations because: Tourism cannot be used to whitewash war crimes. We cannot violate fundamental rights such as...
International Youth Day 2025 Celebrates Youth Driving Environmental Action
The immortalized words of Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, “kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan,” rang true today as around 200 young people gathered at De La Salle University to celebrate International Youth Day 2025. The event highlighted the crucial role of the...
Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Protecting Health Must Take Center Stage
Geneva, Switzerland – Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the threats to human health from toxic plastic chemicals are widely shared by delegates as momentum grows for a Treaty with...
Will the Trump Regime’s 50% tariffs on India make the panda and the elephant dance more together?
Shashi Tharoor tells Trump that colonialism is over and that he is a hypocrite. I recently gave some comments to India’s NDTV about the decline of the US in the global society. It was on its Friday evening “India Ascends” program. It was about the same time as the...
A quartet of Nicaragua critics sings from Washington’s songbook
In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared O. Bell, a former USAID Foreign Service Officer;...
Iran Hopes That CPEC Branding Will Secure More Investment From China
Rebranding existing logistics corridors across its territory as part of CPEC is a means to this end. Iran’s Mehr News Agency and others reported that one of their country’s leading economic officials discussed the possibility of it facilitating Pakistan’s trade with...
If Humans Were As Evil As We’re Usually Told, We’d Be Extinct
Did you know that the murders and rapes and free-for-all violent chaos in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina didn’t actually happen, and that the consistent pattern during major disasters is for people to go out of their way to help each other, for the news media to...
Latvia: A new face for civilian-based defense (CBD)?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine. The rise of Russian-style hybrid warfare. General receptivity to the idea of nonviolent civilian-based defense (CBD) in Latvia, one of the two Baltic states that share a border with Russia, has never been lower. It was the US Special...
EcoWaste Coalition Urges Government to Craft Product Safety Standards for Stainless Steel Water Tumblers
Group Presses for Regulatory Action to Prevent Dumping of Non-compliant Products 11 August 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged government regulators to craft product safety standards for reusable stainless steel water tumblers after...
Promising Media Safety in Election-bound Bangladesh
Addressing the nation on live television on 5 August 2025, Bangladesh’s interim government head Dr Muhammad Yunus announced that the south Asian nation will go for 13th Jatiya Sansad polls by the first half of February next year (Bangladesh election authority later...