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Articles

• Tapan K Bose: 1946-2025
  30 January, by Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy

  Tapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary film-maker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi in the morning of Martyr’s Day (Shahadat Diwas), 30th January 2025.
  For most of his life, Tapan was well known for his courageous stand against injustice, violence and inequality. Having started his activism during the political Emergency period in late 1970s, and later filming the victims of Bhagalpur blindings, fighting (…)

• Palestine is Not for Sale, Gaza is Not a Real Estate Project
  6 February, by Union of Professors and Employees of Birzeit University

  As a union of university professors and employees in Palestine, it is incumbent upon us to educate. The most recent statements from the current head of the US empire, Donald Trump, are nothing more than a continuation of more than a century of colonial violence. The basic clarity of treating the world as their own property is perhaps the only surprising part of this most recent iteration of colonial oppression. Like four generations of Palestinians before us, we adamantly refuse the (…)

• American “Exceptionalism” And Trump’s Fascism
  14 February, by Vinod Mubayi

  Many US Presidents, including President Obama, have celebrated America as an “exceptional” country and voiced many paeans to its exceptionalism. They meant this in a wholly positive sense of course, although it is difficult not to regard the United States at its founding as exceptional in a very different sense: its hypocrisy. The US founding fathers managed to integrate the soaring rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence and the Rights of Man with its complete negation in the practice (…)

• Nothing Left to Say?
  14 February, by Victor Beaudet-Latendresse

  Since Donald Trump began intimidating Canada with border tariffs and threats of annexation, the premiers have been wavering. While François Legault and Doug Ford puff out their chests, striving to embody the image of strongmen in the face of the storm, Justin Trudeau in Ottawa is lacing up his boxing gloves one last time. Deep down, we suspect they will eventually return to their usual posture of concessions and subservience toward Washington. They all have one thing in mind: returning as (…)

• COP30 At The Doorstep of Amazon Rainforest in 2025
  1 February, by Marie-Josée Béliveau

  Ten years after the Paris Agreement and two stops in oil-producing countries, the thirtieth Conference of the Parties on Climate (COP30), taking place this year on the doorstep of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, will undoubtedly be marked by the influence of Indigenous peoples.
  Shortly after his re-election in 2022, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for COP30 to be held in the Amazon. As a result, the conference, organized by the United Nations, will take place in (…)

• The Situation of the Rohingya in Sri Lanka
  6 February, by Arianne Brideau

  Since the escalation of the conflict by a military takeover in February 2021, more than 1.3 million refugees and asylum seekers from Myanmar are hosted in other countries around the world. The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group that has lived in Myanmar, previously known as Burma, for centuries. Myanmar is predominantly Buddhist, and the Rohingya have faced persecution due to their religious and ethnic identity. Over the years, this minority group has struggled for recognition and basic (…)