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The word as an act of restitution
2+ hour, 57+ 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
3+ hour, 1+ 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”
5+ hour, 21+ min 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?
5+ hour, 41+ min 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…...
Neutrality in the face of extermination is not culture: it is complicity
12+ hour, 22+ min ago (693+ words) More than eighty figures from the international film community, including Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay, publicly challenged the Berlin International Film Festival over its silence regarding Gaza. Their letter is not a symbolic gesture: it is a direct…...
West Bank: The registration of dispossession
14+ hour, 56+ min ago (313+ words) When a power that occupies a territory decides to register the land of the occupied as its own, this is no longer administration: it is appropriation. Israel's new law on land in the West Bank confirms that the so-called "two-state…...
African Union Consolidates Relations With United Nations
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (422+ words) (Moscow Bureau) " In its declaration after the two-day extensive deliberations, African leaders, under the auspices of the African Union, renewed their collective pledge to strengthen strategic partnership with United Nations and also prioritize multilateralism on the global agenda. The" Kester…...
Rubio’s Munich Speech Detailed Trump 2.0’s Envisaged New World Order
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (487+ words) What Trump 2.0 wants to do is lead Western Civilization's comprehensive reforms with a view towards building a nascent civilization-state that would then unrestrainedly wield its restored collective strength to coerce rising rivals into subordinating themselves to it for restoring" Andrew…...
Ubuntu and Panafricanism – the Library That Changes the World
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (363+ words) A meeting on the topic of Pan-Africanism and the Ubuntu philosophy took place on Saturday, January 17, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Ubuntu Humanist Library in Dakar. The event, organized by the Center of Study, Reflection, and Action of Pikine,…...
350,000 people march in Toronto in support of Iran protests
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (300+ words) On February 14, a rally in Toronto drew an estimated 350,000 people. The demonstrators called on the Canadian government to recognize Iran's exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran's democratic transition after anti-government protests erupted in Iran at the…...