Browse Category

Op-ed

Submission Guidelines: 
For publication in our regular online newspaper op-ed/ Editorial pages, we accept submissions on timely, well-researched opinion pieces and essays.
– Your article must be below 1200 words and be emailed to us as an attachment (.doc or .docx file).
– Please include a picture of the author and a one-sentence biography of who the writer is/does.
– For articles about special national and international days or commemoration of events, please submit the article at least a week in advance so that we may be able to let you know if we are publishing it.
– After submission, please allow us up to 5 days to respond. If your piece is selected, we will certainly get back to you. We try to respond to each submission, but if you do not hear back from us within 5 days, feel free to submit your article elsewhere.

Email: opinionbdreports24@gmail.com

Is ISIS an existential threat! WHY

ISIS has ZERO real Military assets and thus is ZERO threat, yet US Media, Republicans & Democrats are selling this is an: Existential Threat! WHY? Proof of existential ISIS threat: a guy wearing black Pajama in a Sanddle carrying a Black flag One of 1000s of Children Killed by Israeli bombing of Gaza Some of 30,000+ Americans Killed per Year not by ISIS, but by insane policies put in place by Republicans & Democrats isisThis Fear-Mongering & War-Mongering by Wall Street Media and Republicans & Obama Democrats about ISIS being ...

Bangladesh eager to join BRICS Bank following Chinese interest?

As smaller economies rejoice in the forming of the New Development Bank (NDB) led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), down in South Asia Bangladesh seems to be already ramping up to join the bank. Following the 6th BRICS Summit announcement, the Bangladesh media have been abuzz with reports of the country’s keenness to join NDB. News has it that work exploring the possibilities of joining the Bank has already started. bangladesh-brics-bank-china.siBangladesh, whi...

South Asian countries are still defining their identities

Tom Hussain

 August 14 and 15 are dates unique in modern history in that they represent the 67th anniversary of independence from colonial rule of three of the world’s most populous nations: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the latter initially being part of Pakistan until it split away in 1971. Between them, they account for roughly 20 per cent of humanity.Because of that, and their participation in Asia’s increasingly competitive strategic environment, they will invariably have a great bearing on world affairs as the 21st century progresses. The nature of that impact, however, remains unclear, because all three countries continue to struggle to define their respective national identities and, therefore, cannot state with any certainty what they ...

Israel bites hand that feeds, US feeds hand that bites

Thalif Deen

There is an age-old axiom in politics, says a cynical Asian diplomat, that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. But that longstanding adage never applied to Israel, which although sustained militarily by the United States, has had no compunction at lashing out at Washington if the U.S. is ever critical of illegal settlements or human rights violations in the occupied territories. “The U.S. government has continued to serve as an enabler for Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.”—Norman Solomon

Freedom is shooting 28 Bangladeshis 

It sounds like Greek to you but it doesn’t sound like that to the Greeks. To them this is justice. Never have the scales of justice been so blindsided as they were on Wednesday when a Greek court set free four countrymen who were accused of shooting (with real guns) 28 Bangladeshi workers who were protesting non-payment of salaries for six months. This pathetic, fiscal wreck of a little country that no one cares about and is now Europe’s basket case had the temerity to destroy all these centuries of belief that Greece was an ancient civilization and that land of Plato and Socrates and Aristotle, Archimedes and Euripedes, the nation that gave the world Sophocles and Aritides and kings like Ptolemy and Antigone has fallen to such tragedy that even the republic as Plato knew it counts f...

Tackling private censorship in media

As media ownership passes into many kinds of hands, the sensitivities of corporate and political owners are posing a growing threat to unencumbered reporting

 

State censorship of mainstream media is now passè. No government, at least in our country, has much stomach for it. There is just too much media around, always looking for something to shriek or tweet about. But there is a new beast that the squeamish among us will need to confront even as we are still being coy about its existence. As media ownership passes into many kinds of hands, the sensitivities of corporate and political owners are posing a growing threat to unencumbered reporting. It is a recognized ...
Verified by MonsterInsights