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Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (1540+ words) After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and threaten Iran. By Nicolas J. S. Davies This is the…...
The Decapitation that Failed: Venezuela after the Abduction of President Maduro
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (1015+ words) The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela's constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. By Roger…...
One Battle After Another and the Seduction of Endless Struggle
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (1212+ words) David Andersson is a writer and humanist based in New York City. He focuses on issues of global justice, collective consciousness, and nonviolent transformation. English Editor with Pressenza International Press Agency and is the author of The White-West: A Look…...
“Holy” Giving: an American Experience
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (1061+ words) David Andersson is a writer and humanist based in New York City. He focuses on issues of global justice, collective consciousness, and nonviolent transformation. English Editor with Pressenza International Press Agency and is the author of The White-West: A Look…...
Chicago, the Street Vendors Association against ICE violence
13+ hour, 34+ min ago (354+ words) This post is also available in: Italian After interviewing Rick Rosales of CyclingxSolidarity, we continue to give a voice to the associations that organise solidarity and protection initiatives in Chicago for undocumented immigrants against ICE violence. This time we talk…...
Bangladesh 2026: When Political Islam Confronted Women’s Autonomy
19+ hour, 40+ min ago (863+ words) by Dimitra Staikou The 2026 national elections in Bangladesh were not merely a parliamentary realignment. They evolved into a social referendum on gender, authority, and the limits of ideological revival within a rapidly transforming Muslim-majority democracy. While the Bangladesh Nationalist" Pressenza…...
The word as an act of restitution
1+ day, 30+ min ago (368+ words) On 17 February 2026, Et la joie de vivre, the memoir of Gis'le Pelicot, is published. In Spanish, it appears as Un himno a la vida and in English as A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. At the center…...
A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
1+ day, 34+ min ago (424+ words) By Jan Oberg " TFF director This vision rests on four practical principles. None of them is utopian. All of them are grounded in common sense, human dignity, and long'term strategic thinking. Empowerment becomes the most effective form of legitimacy. Cooperation…...
EcoWaste Coalition Sounds the Alarm against a Moisturizing Cream Banned in the UK for Posing a “Serious Chemical Risk”
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (480+ words) 18 February 2026, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged users of a Pakistan-made moisturizing facial cream to halt further use following the product's withdrawal from the UK market as it poses "a serious chemical risk." "To avoid adverse effects…...
Ukraine four years later: what remains of the official narrative?
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (563+ words) This post is also available in: French Following the events of February 24, 2022, political leaders, the mainstream media, and the armchair "experts" all reacted in the same way. They portrayed it as a war between Russia and Ukraine, as an unprovoked…...