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<title>Counterpoint &#45; H.M. Nazmul Alam</title>
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<title>Why Is Osman Hadi’s Image Triggering Negative Reactions?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-Is-Osman-Hadi%E2%80%99s-Image-Triggering-Negative-Reactions</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ It feels unjust to see a human life reduced to a symbol of negativity, especially when that reduction is driven by forces beyond the individual’s control. Yet the reaction itself cannot be dismissed as irrational. It is the product of a pattern that has become too consistent to ignore. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:22:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Osman Hadi, Symbolic Politics, Digital Politics</media:keywords>
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<title>Can Bangladesh Build a People&#45;Centric Bureaucracy?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Can-Bangladesh-Build-a-People-Centric-Bureaucracy</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The path ahead is neither simple nor short. Decades of accumulated practices cannot be undone overnight. Yet the absence of immediate transformation should not become a justification for inaction. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:00:38 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bureaucracy, Administration</media:keywords>
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<title>The Curious Case of ‘Gupta’ Controversy</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-curious-case-of-gupta-controversy</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ When power is built in ways that are not openly contested, when structures are created without clear political labelling yet function as extensions of a particular ideology, the line between organizational growth and concealed control begins to blur. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:55:54 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gupta Controversy, power, politics</media:keywords>
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<title>Why the World Watches but Rarely Acts</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/why-the-world-watches-but-rarely-acts</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The systems that govern the world are powerful, but they are not immutable. They derive their strength, in part, from acceptance, from the belief that they cannot be altered. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:06:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Crisis. acceptance, world, power</media:keywords>
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<title>Development Begins Where Human Potential is Nurtured</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Development-Begins-Where-Human-Potential-is-Nurtured</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Development-Begins-Where-Human-Potential-is-Nurtured</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world driven by technology and innovation, the value of human intellect far exceeds that of raw materials. Countries that fail to recognize this shift risk being trapped in cycles of dependency and underdevelopment. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:50:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Aristotle, Amartya Sen, South Korea</media:keywords>
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<title>Civilization at the Crossroads of Cosmos and Catastrophe</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Civilization-at-the-Crossroads-of-Cosmos-and-Catastrophe</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The contrast between our technological ambitions and our moral shortcomings raises an uncomfortable possibility. What if our progress is fundamentally unbalanced? What if we have mistaken the expansion of capability for the advancement of civilization? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:14:47 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Second World War, Persia, Utopia</media:keywords>
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<title>The Ceasefire That Solves Nothing</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Ceasefire-That-Solves-Nothing</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Ceasefire-That-Solves-Nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For civilians, of course, the distinction between pause and resolution may seem academic. The absence of immediate violence is a tangible relief. But from a structural perspective, the conditions that produced the war remain unchanged. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:22:36 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Iran, Israel, USA, Ceasefire</media:keywords>
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<title>Is Bangladesh the First Collateral Damage?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Is-Bangladesh-the-First</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Is-Bangladesh-the-First</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Already, there are signs of classic crisis behaviour. Panic buying, hoarding, informal resale of fuel at inflated prices, and rising tensions at petrol pumps. These are not the symptoms of a stable system. They are the early tremors of a breakdown in trust. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:40:00 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Iran, USA, Strait of Hormuz, Fuel Crisis</media:keywords>
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<title>Kharg Island and the Fragility of the World’s Energy Order</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Kharg-Island-and-the-Fragility-of-the-World%E2%80%99s-Energy-Order</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Kharg-Island-and-the-Fragility-of-the-World%E2%80%99s-Energy-Order</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Modern warfare increasingly targets economic infrastructure rather than traditional military formations. Oil terminals, pipelines, power plants and ports have become instruments of pressure in conflicts across the world. The objective is not merely to defeat an enemy army but to weaken an adversary’s economic foundations. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:57:13 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kharg, Iran</media:keywords>
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<title>Myanmar’s Civil War and the Expanding Shadow of Global Rivalry</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/myanmars-civil-war-and-the-expanding-shadow-of-global-rivalry</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/myanmars-civil-war-and-the-expanding-shadow-of-global-rivalry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Myanmar stands as a stark reminder that in today’s world, geography is destiny only until strategy intervenes ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:57:29 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Myanmar, Civil war</media:keywords>
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<title>Why Nepal’s Youth Won and Bangladesh’s Faltered</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-Nepal%E2%80%99s-Youth-Won-and-Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Faltered</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-Nepal%E2%80%99s-Youth-Won-and-Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Faltered</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh’s political terrain is considerably more rigid. Dynastic narratives continue to exert powerful influence over voter perceptions. The Awami League remains closely associated with the legacy of Sheikh Mujib, while the BNP continues to revolve around the Zia family. In such an environment, new political movements must not only compete with established organizations but also confront deeply embedded historical loyalties. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:50:46 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Balendra Shah, Nepal, Awami League, NCP, Zia</media:keywords>
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<title>Why the Admission Debate Misses the Bigger Crisis</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-the-Admission-Debate</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-the-Admission-Debate</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the end, the controversy is not about a mechanism. It is about a mindset. It reveals a society that remains deeply anxious about opportunity and deeply divided in access to it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:26:45 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Education, Reform</media:keywords>
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<title>When Elephants Fight, It is the Grass that Suffers</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Elephants-Fight</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Elephants-Fight</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is often said that there is no personal loss to the architects of war. That statement may be rhetorically exaggerated, yet it captures an essential imbalance. Decision-makers operate at a distance from the battlefield. Their families are rarely in the line of fire. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:16:11 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>USA, Israel, Iran</media:keywords>
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<title>The Growing Gap between Degrees and Employability</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Growing-Gap-between-Degrees-and-Employability</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Growing-Gap-between-Degrees-and-Employability</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh’s higher education story is often told as one of expansion and access. It is time to tell the other half of the story, the one about relevance, rigor and responsibility. Degrees alone do not build nations. Skills do. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:05:25 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Higher Education, Employment, Gen Z</media:keywords>
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<title>Diplomatic Chatter and the Distortion of Political Truth</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Diplomatic-Chatter-and-the-Distortion-of-Political-Truth</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Diplomatic-Chatter-and-the-Distortion-of-Political-Truth</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The notion that Jamaat-e-Islami is on the cusp of ruling Bangladesh tells us less about Bangladesh’s politics and more about the fantasies and anxieties of those observing it from insulated rooms. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:55:54 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jamaat-e-Islami, Elections, Media</media:keywords>
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<title>What Zaima Said and Why It Matters</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Reflections-from-Zaima-Rahman%E2%80%99s-first-address</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Reflections-from-Zaima-Rahman%E2%80%99s-first-address</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The most enduring line of her address may be her insistence that empowerment must reach homes, institutions, and mindsets simultaneously. This is not a comfortable demand. It implicates everyone. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:19:15 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Zaima, Lineage, Zaima Rahman</media:keywords>
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<title>Who Can Afford to be a Politician Today</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Who-Can-Afford-to-Be-a-Politician-Today</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Who-Can-Afford-to-Be-a-Politician-Today</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As the nation approaches another election marked by controversy and uncertainty, the composition of its candidate list serves as both a warning and a mirror. It reveals not only who seeks power, but why they seek it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:09:13 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Parliament, MP, Member of Parliament, Election</media:keywords>
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<title>How Bangladesh Slipped into the Global High&#45;Risk Category</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/How-Bangladesh-Slipped</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/How-Bangladesh-Slipped</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What is ultimately at stake is not merely the ease of obtaining visas. It is how Bangladeshi citizens are perceived as participants in the global order. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:46:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Visa, Export, Migration</media:keywords>
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<title>Of Moral Authority and Convenient Amnesia</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Of-Moral-Authority</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Of-Moral-Authority</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Concern about minority safety in Bangladesh is not illegitimate. But when that concern is amplified selectively, weaponized by domestic political actors, and accompanied by conspicuous silence on India’s own minority challenges, it acquires the flavour of moral exhibitionism. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:14:45 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Democracy, Coercion, Credibility</media:keywords>
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<title>Khaleda Zia: Power, Suffering and the Politics of Endurance</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/khaleda-zia-power-suffering-and-the-politics-of-endurance</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/khaleda-zia-power-suffering-and-the-politics-of-endurance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When the history of modern Bangladesh is eventually written with the clarity that distance allows, Khaleda Zia will not appear only as a former prime minister or as the chairperson of a major political party. She will appear as a woman who challenged inherited assumptions about power in a society unprepared for her presence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:50:05 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Begum Khaleda Zia, Death, Khaleda Zia</media:keywords>
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<title>The Democratization of Human Rights Violations</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Democratization-of-Human</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Democratization-of-Human</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The authoritarian habits cultivated over a decade and a half did not disappear with the fall of a government; they seeped into the public bloodstream. When state violence takes a step back, social violence often steps forward. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:31:27 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mobs, Crossfire, Assailants</media:keywords>
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<title>The Danger of Ruling by Resentment</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-danger-of-ruling-by-resentment</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/the-danger-of-ruling-by-resentment</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When leaders fail to rise above personal impulses, nations suffer in ways that cannot be easily repaired. Economies falter, social bonds weaken, and the future becomes a battleground of unresolved grievances. History offers no shortage of warnings. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:34:04 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Economy, Justice, Leadership</media:keywords>
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<title>Understanding Khaleda Zia</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Understanding-Khaleda-Zia</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Understanding-Khaleda-Zia</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Khaleda Zia’s mixed record of democratic contribution, confrontation-driven politics and unresolved party succession continues to influence the country’s search for renewed leadership ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:24:57 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Khaleda Zia, BNP</media:keywords>
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<title>The Moral Cost of Being a Politician in the Global South</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Moral-Cost</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Moral-Cost</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Political life becomes a stage where guilt is assigned by association, not by evidence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:44:10 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>politicians, politics, Moral cost</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gen Z Burnout: How 20&#45;Year&#45;Olds Became Tired Before Living</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Gen-Z-Burnout</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Gen-Z-Burnout</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Their burnout is not a personal failing. It is a symptom of a culture that confuses motion with meaning. If a generation is exhausted before life begins, the problem is not them. It is the world we have collectively built around them. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:49:41 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Generation Z, Youth</media:keywords>
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<title>Can the Centre Hold?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Centrist-Question</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Centrist-Question</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The choices Bangladesh makes in the coming years will determine the future. Political experience, ideological moderation, and administrative grounding -- all characteristics associated with the centrist tradition -- will be essential components of a successful democratic transition. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:53:24 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>How Do We Rebuild Our Democracy?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/nov-16-can-bangladesh-turn-the-corner</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/nov-16-can-bangladesh-turn-the-corner</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The real victory of any revolution lies not in the fall of an old regime but in the birth of a culture that resists repeating its mistakes. Bangladesh’s revolution will have meaning only if it leads to a politics that listens, includes, and endures. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:45:34 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Democracy, Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>The Disguised Democracy of the Global South</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Disguised-Democracy</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Disguised-Democracy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Until democracy regains its moral soul -- until citizens can question without fear and leaders can lose power without vengeance -- it will remain a performance, not a principle. And if this performance continues, one morning we will awaken to discover that democracy has quietly turned into its opposite. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:02:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Democracy, Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>The Nobel, the Peacemaker, and the Paradox</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Nobel-the-Peacemaker</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Nobel-the-Peacemaker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When Alfred Nobel dreamed of a world united by fraternity, he did not imagine it would be governed by press releases. Yet that is what the award has become: a yearly exercise in reputation management, not reconciliation. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:44:21 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Nobel Peace Prize</media:keywords>
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<title>The Culture of Cunning</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Culture-That</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Culture-That</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The damage is not only ethical but psychological. Once the collective mind learns to justify wrongdoing as survival, no institution can function. Our tragedy is not that we lack intelligence, but that we misuse it. We have mistaken cunning for cleverness and substituted wisdom with opportunism. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:17:47 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
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<title>Why So Serious, NCP?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Politics is not a moral monastery. It’s a battlefield of imperfect allies and temporary truces. If the NCP keeps attacking everyone around it, soon it will have no one left to fight beside. Reform may begin with rebellion, but it survives through relationships. And without those, no revolution lasts long enough to write its own constitution. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:17:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>NCP, July Charter</media:keywords>
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<title>Reading Tarique Rahman’s Words</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Reading-Tarique-Rahman</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ His BBC interview does not announce a new manifesto; it announces a new temperament. It marks the return not merely of a politician but of a political tone long missing in Bangladesh -- calm, composed, and confident in the people’s intelligence ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:20:18 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tarique Rahman, BNP</media:keywords>
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<title>The Ballad of the Missing Bullets</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Ballad-Missing-Bullets</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Each missing gun is a potential shooting at a street corner, a robbery, a killing. As national elections approach, the fear is not hypothetical. It is Chekhov’s gun multiplied by a thousand: if a weapon hangs on the wall in Act I, it must go off by Act III. And Act III is the election. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:20:00 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Election, Guns</media:keywords>
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<title>In Defence of the Word Unspoken</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/In-Defence-of-the-Word-Unspoken</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Societies that silence dissent eventually silence innovation, justice, and even hope. The cemetery of nations is filled not with those who spoke too much, but with those who spoke too little. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:59:09 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Freedom of Expression</media:keywords>
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<title>The Collapse of Authority in an Age of Broken Trust</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Collapse-of-Authority</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The greatest danger of our age is not simply that authority will be rejected, but that authority itself will lose all legitimacy, leaving nothing in its place but the law of the jungle ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:29:29 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Society, Authoritarianism</media:keywords>
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<title>The High Stakes of Tarique Rahman’s Political Absence</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-High-Stakes-of-Tarique-Rahman%E2%80%99s-Political-Absence</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ His prolonged stay in the UK is now the defining issue for the country’s opposition politics. His potential return could reshape public perception, reinvigorate the BNP, and alter the national political equilibrium. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:11:43 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>BNP, Tarique Rahman</media:keywords>
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<title>When the State Becomes a Party and the Party Becomes the State</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/When-the-State-Becomes-a-Party-and-the-Party-Becomes-the-State</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Whoever sits in power today must imagine themselves out of power tomorrow. If they cannot accept that thought, then their governance is not democracy but monarchy in disguise. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:38:23 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Gaza, Power, and the Politics of Indifference</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Gaza%2C-Power%2C-and-the-Politics-of-Indifference</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ If Gaza becomes the example that law is conditional and morality negotiable, then the costs will be felt far beyond its borders. And when history renders its verdict, it will not be kind to those who turned away. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:27:40 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gaza, United States</media:keywords>
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<title>Tariff Relief or Strategic Trade&#45;Off?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Tariff-Relief-or-Strategic-Trade-Off</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Tariff-Relief-or-Strategic-Trade-Off</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 20% is better than 35, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done if Bangladesh wishes to remain competitive in the global marketplace ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:23:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Why Politicians Keep Lying</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-Politicians-Keep-Lying</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Why-Politicians-Keep-Lying</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The question is not whether politicians will lie. They will. The question is whether and why we, the people, will continue to believe them. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:21:29 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Ghost in the Machine</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Truth-on-Trial%2C-Justice-in-Exile</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jinns were once blamed for missing utensils and mysterious fevers. In today’s statecraft, they seem to be responsible for everything from election fraud to economic collapse. No one ever is to blame. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:10:53 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
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<title>When Madness Becomes Policy and Policy Becomes a Punchline</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Madness-Becomes-Policy-and-Policy-Becomes-a-Punchline</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Madness-Becomes-Policy-and-Policy-Becomes-a-Punchline</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In trying to weaponize chaos, Trump has made America’s foreign policy more coherent than ever -- to its adversaries. He is no longer a mystery. He is a meme. And the world has learned to scroll past him. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:08:45 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
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<title>The Withering Roots of Dignity</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Withering-Roots-of-Dignity</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Withering-Roots-of-Dignity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Humiliation is the tool of the weak pretending to be strong. True strength lies in restoring dignity -- not just to the self, but to others. Only then can the roots of our society regenerate. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:07:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>April is the cruellest month</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/april-is-the-cruellest-month</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/april-is-the-cruellest-month</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is nothing that can be accomplished by an April election that could not also be accomplished by one in December, and much that could be lost. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:31:11 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>How Trump’s Oval Office Became a Global Interrogation Room</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/how-trumps-oval-office-became-a-global-interrogation-room</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/how-trumps-oval-office-became-a-global-interrogation-room</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The White House is now a stage for public rebuke, political theatre, and intimidation disguised as diplomacy. Within this heavily guarded mansion now lies an inner chamber not of hospitality but of strategic humiliation, where world leaders no longer meet an equal but face a prosecutorial figurehead. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 11:30:57 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Donald Trump, White House, Zelensky, United States, Diplomacy</media:keywords>
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