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Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
With empty supermarket shelves and rising public distrust, the coronavirus-hit city is ticking most of the boxes. Grocery runs in Asia’s financial powerhouse have begun to…
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Peace plans have no function except to serve Israel’s colonial takeover of Palestine
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of It will prove to be Israel’s…
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2010s: The Decade of Protests
As 2020 begins with news of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, it is important that we reflect on the defining features of the…
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Bangladesh’s authoritarian shift
In Bangladesh the ruling Awami League has established total control over state machinery and politics since the managed election of December 2018. Simmering popular discontent found…
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Leaving democracy behind
January 7th marks the anniversary of the beginning of the third consecutive term of the Awami League government in power in Bangladesh, making Sheikh Hasina its…
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Flow Generation
“Dhaka is dirty and dangerous, don’t go there, there’s nothing to see.” That’s what some people told me when they heard about my plan to spend…
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BANGLADESH IN 2020 Eight points to consider
Twenty-twenty will be an eventful year for Bangladesh. It will be celebrating the year as the Mujib Year with shining glory and confidence. Yet, the year…
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A Year of Protest: The Rapid Decline in Civic Freedoms World Over
A new watch list by the CIVICUS Monitor shines a spotlight on Hong Kong, Colombia, Egypt, Guinea and Kazakhstan where there are escalating rights violations against…
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Netanyahu Wants to Annex the West Bank. Will Joe Biden Stop Him?
Early in my career as a U.S. diplomat in the 1980s, I was assigned the thankless task of carrying water for Israel. The mission: to lobby…
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The ‘risk to democracy’ in Chile isn’t from protesters. It’s from Piñera and the 1%
Protest criminalised, direct action equated with terrorism: it’s starting to feel like the bad old days of Pinochet “We’re at war against a powerful enemy,” declared…
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Reclaiming a Moral Economy
Bangladesh currently ranks among the fastest growing major economies in the world, notwithstanding some doubts about the growth estimates. In fact, the country’s average annual growth…
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Future of finance hinges on understanding of data
It is being discussed in the corridors that the accounting or finance profession is going to be most impacted in the era of artificial intelligence and…
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Why influx from India to Bangladesh.
The influx of people from India crossing the borders to Bangladesh in the past weeks warrants the attention of Bangladeshi policymakers. Unfortunately, the foreign minister’s recent…
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From one frying pan to another?
What Bangladesh Bank should do is to get rid of all interest rate caps and focus on implementing the macro-prudential regulatory framework symmetrically for all banks…
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How new autocrats curb press freedom
As democratic backsliding has become a global phenomenon and hybrid regimes—a political system which has both democratic and authoritarian traits—have proliferated, freedom of the press has…
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Iran’s crisis deepens
First Lebanon, then Iraq – now Iran's own citizens are turning against the Iranian state. Tim Black It happened quickly. On Friday, without prior debate or…