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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Muhaimen Siddiquee</title>
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<title>The Shadow of Dhaka</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ West Bengal&#039;s voters may not have articulated this distinction in theoretical terms. But they felt its weight. The images from Dhaka showed them what the far end of one trajectory looks like. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:50:19 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>BJP, Sheikh Hasina, Jamaat-e-Islami</media:keywords>
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<title>Iran Was Never the Target</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Strait of Hormuz to the Bay of Bengal, the United States is fighting a war it has never fully declared -- one waged not against Tehran or Caracas, but against the architecture of a Chinese-led economic order. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:05:01 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Iran, USA, Strait of Hormuz</media:keywords>
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<title>After the Oil Crisis, We Go Back to Sleep</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh is not short of clever people or workable ideas. What we are short of is institutional willingness to treat a crisis as something other than an inconvenience to be weathered. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:43:04 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
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<title>Memory, Myth, and the Performance of War in Bangladesh’s Media</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh deserves better than slogan-driven geopolitics. It deserves journalism that can critique American power without romanticizing Iranian power, question Israeli policy without indulging conspiracy, and evaluate Russia, China, or Pakistan without reflexive alignment. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:30:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Iran</media:keywords>
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<title>Conspiracy Fever: What Draws Us In</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Critical thinking should not be optional, If young people grow up learning how to think -- not what to think -- the appeal of simplistic grand narratives will naturally weaken. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:03:40 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Pinaki, Conspiracy, Digital Literacy</media:keywords>
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<title>What It Means to Be Bangladeshi Today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh remains socially conservative in many ways, but voters demonstrated political moderation. Economic stability, welfare support, and social peace mattered more than ideological confrontation. The electorate did not reject religion. It rejected restriction. It did not embrace radical liberalism. It embraced balance. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:10:28 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>BNP, Jamaat, Election</media:keywords>
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<title>Can We Critically Look at People’s Movements?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ If states tighten control over digital spaces to prevent manipulation, how do democracies function? How do we distinguish between organic, bottom-up people’s movements and those that are partially orchestrated or externally influenced? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:11:13 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gen Z, July Movement, Revolutions</media:keywords>
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<title>Is Jamaat a Bangladeshi BJP? Not Quite.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ India’s political field has bent under pressure but has not collapsed. Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s political field is far more fragile. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:40:39 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Muhaimen Siddiquee</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jamaat. BJP, Islamism</media:keywords>
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