On July 28, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden had a phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the request of the former. They had a candid discussion about the US-China relationship. This was the fifth call between the two leaders since Biden came into office. During the call, President Xi spoke about the pressing […]
A Bangladeshi court sentenced 20 university students to death on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 for their roles in the killing of Abrar Fahad, a brilliant engineering student, aged 21 at the time, who criticized the government on social media in 2019. The battered, dead body of Abrar was found lying in the dormitory just hours […]
Bangladesh has been in the grip of fascism since December of 2008, when a fraudulent election installed Sheikh Hasina Wazed, an Indian protégé, in power. All national and local elections since then were conducted by corrupt but loyal officials and partisan elements to ensure almost 100% victory for the regime. The opposition was kept at […]
The entire world has witnessed in horror as angry mobs stormed into the US Capitol on June 6, 2021. They were furious, unhinged white supremacist followers who believed Donald Trump’s continuous false claims insisting that he won the 2020 Presidential election and that there has been “massive voter fraud” committed by the Democrats in favor […]
A couple of days ago, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrote a piece originally published in The Guardian about her concerns regarding the devastating effects climate change is having on Bangladesh. As the Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, she states, among other things, that the G-20 countries are responsible for 80% of the total […]
The Asian Human Rights Commission states that between 2009 and 2019, 553 people in Bangladesh have gone mysteriously missing. This is the “official” statistic, meaning it is based on the number of missing persons cases filed with law enforcement. This number can safely be much higher, as is also claimed by the opposing Bangladesh Nationalist […]
It has been three long years since the Rohingya people were forced to flee their homeland of Myanmar due to the ethnic cleansing of Muslims by the Myanmar government. The Bangladesh government took in almost 1 million Rohingya, being a developing country and lacking all the space and resources required to house such a large […]