Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica, blindfolded, point a finger, spot a flood. There’s nothing fake about the global warming leviathan absorbing more moisture in a...
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Japan and Africa: Inseparable Development Partners
Japan has one combined distinctive goal on the African agenda – investment, trade, and development. This was indicated explicitly in most of the speeches and presentations at the three-day development summit, from August 20-22, attended by African leaders and...
On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone
An imagined community Ukraine is an Eastern European territory that was originally part of the western part of the Russian Empire and the eastern portion of the Polish Kingdom in the mid-17th century (the division according to the 1667 Peace Treaty of Andrusovo). That...
US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test
The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well “America...
United Nations at 80: A Turning Point for Humanity
Pressenza and the Humanist Movement have always recognized the United Nations as a historic step toward the humanization of the world. In November 2025, the UN will mark its 80th anniversary—a milestone that invites us to reflect on its achievements, its limitations,...
The Proxy War in Ukraine (For Western Dummies)
The Actual Death Toll: 1.7 Million Ukrainian Soldiers Are Dead As the horrifying (real) numbers of dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers begin to trickle into the exoteric circles of the Western media-sphere, it’s becoming even more clear how skewed, often to the point...
Broken Promises: The Unfinished Story of Rohingya Repatriation
The 25th August 2017 was the witness of the tragic Rohingya refugees from their homeland. The huge influx of about 1 million Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh was talk of the town then, across the World Community. The shift in global priorities over time is evident in...
Historic Golden Rule Sailboat to Lead Peace Flotilla Around Alcatraz
The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat will lead a flotilla of Bay Area boats around Alcatraz on Wednesday afternoon. The boats will be decorated with banners calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, for an end to the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, and...
Why Professor Jeffrey Sachs Was Right: A Case for Europe’s Return to Itself and Its Foundational Values
In contemporary Europe and the world, challenges threatening democracy, human rights, and social justice are intensifying. Among them are the rise of nationalism, restrictions on minority rights, and religious freedoms. These trends undermine the principles of...
In the West Bank, water is weaponized
Israelis settlers in the West Bank, consume up to 10 times more water than Palestinians. This isn’t simply about scarcity, it’s about control. And for Palestinian farming families, it means every day is a struggle to hold onto their land, their crops, and their...
Qudaibergen, Domingo, and Carreras — The semiotic reconfiguration of “The Three Tenors”: A constructive mosaic across temporal antipodes
The performance of Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Dimash Qudaibergen—standing in for the late master of all masters, Luciano Pavarotti—and cellist Stjepan Hauser in the final of Virtuosos, delivering a moving rendition of the classic My Way, became an event of...
Green hydrogen and the new world order. The energy that will define wars and alliances
There will be no power without energy, nor energy without hydrogen — and in the race to control it, geopolitics will once again be stained with oil, but this time it will be green. Hydrogen as the new key to global power In the 20th century, oil defined the great...