October 1, 2025 The dawn was long and dark. On board the Global Sumud Flotilla, bodies stiffened from the vigil; souls, from certainty. That last night before reaching Gaza was etched in the memory of those who could not sleep: activists, doctors, journalists, and...
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Interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters
The Israeli navy has intercepted the flotilla on the high seas, halting its advance toward the coast of Gaza. Several ships in the convoy, including the Alma, Suri, and Theara, have been boarded by Israeli military personnel, according to reports and videos shared by...
On Our Daily Forward
For a while now, one question has been circling in my mind about how we inhabit digital ecosystems: from what stance do we speak? What position do we take when we participate, share, or interact in those spaces that, though seemingly weightless, increasingly shape our...
Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People
“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — Pete Hegseth “America is under invasion from within… That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within… We should use...
A night of vigil in the Mediterranean: The Sumud Flotilla under invisible siege
October 1, 2025, 09:36 hours in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Global Sumud Flotilla is about 90 nautical miles—around 170 kilometers—from the coast of Gaza. Still in international waters, but within the “red zone,” the maritime corridor where previous flotillas were...
The Curse of The Blob
It’s back; it’s bigger; it’s hotter. The Blob has returned to the Pacific Ocean in style, extending all the way from Japan to the US West Coast, haunting the very essence of marine life and igniting additional global warming on land. Nobody thought it could return...
PEC Demands Probe into Uttarakhand Scribe’s Mysterious Death
Geneva, 30 September 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the mysterious death of an Indian scribe based in Uttarakhand and demanded a fair probe into the circumstances that led to the untimely demise of...
EcoWaste Coalition Calls for Market Withdrawal of Lead-Containing Lipsticks following FDA’s Public Health Warnings
1 October 2025, Quezon City. As the Consumer Welfare Month is observed this October and ahead of the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week on October 19-25, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition pushed for the removal from the market of lipsticks...
Truth Between Light and Shadow: Cultural Boycott, Historical Memory, and the Politics of Meaning
The “No Music For Genocide” campaign is not an isolated gesture of indignation; it is a cultural intervention that reopens an ancient and urgent question: what do we do with truth when it appears before us? Do we make it grow as light, or do we instrumentalize it as...
How far is Bangladesh protecting the rights of its minority groups?
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries with across 50 ethnic minority groups, the second most in South Asia. In a sense, four prominent religious groups live in Bangladesh. From the inception of Bangladesh’s independence, the people from these...
Ukraine Is At The Center Of Three Interlocking Triangles For Containing Russia
These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle with Romania and Moldova. Russia has in recent years consistently accused the West of turning...
Israel prepares to intercept the Sumud Flotilla: Another assault on International Law amid global paralysis
Just 150 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip, the Global Sumud Flotilla—comprising nearly 50 boats and humanitarian activists from 44 countries—sails under maximum alert following the official announcement that it will be intercepted by the Israeli navy. The mission,...