Opinion

On journey to advance sanitation talks

DHAKA is poised to host the Toilet Conference 2025 in February 25–26. This event promises to advance global discussions on sanitation, highlighting technologies, climate-resilient sanitation practice, gender and social equality,

Elon Musk is instituting technocracy

Tom Valovic : IT’S hard to see articles about the ‘move fast and break things’ approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world’s richest

Rebellion in a literary future

by Vijay Prashad : LOST in a colonial fog of inferiority, writers across Asia imagined a world that was beyond the reach of colonialism’s devastation. In 1835, Kylas Chunder Dutt

FROM GAZA TO THE WEST BANK: Israel’s unyielding war machine

Ramzy Baroud : ‘A year of combat’—this is how Israel’s new chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organised by the Israeli ministry of defence. The exact

Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing

Binoy Kampmark: PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque,

US TARIFF ON CANADA, MEXICO, CHINA: A window of opportunity for Bangladesh

THE United States has implemented a series of executive order tariffs, effective from February 4, on key trading partners, including Canada, Mexico and China, as part of its broader trade

The empire self-destructs

Chris Hedges : THE billionaires, christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalising the machinery of

A sales pitch for ethnic cleansing

Stanley L Cohen: ACROSS the Arab world, ordinary citizens stand and watch the United States sliding into the abyss and wonder, what can the Americans be thinking there? Their institutions,