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Side…. which side?

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0

XULIO RIOS
The barrage of criticism surrounding Pedro Sánchez's recent trip to China has been surprising. They say it's not "our side," that "there's more to Asia" than China (although the mission also included Vietnam), that the timing couldn't have been worse... However, the trip was a complete success, both in terms of the current situation and the expectations it met, judging by the official assessment provided by Moncloa.

And which side are we on? That of Mr. "Neckcutter," who assigns unavoidable duties to Minister Cuerpo? Or that of Robert Palladino, chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Hungary, who has warned the Hungarian government to refrain from attracting Chinese investment?

The birth of a new international order

6 min read JEFFREY D SACHS 0

JEFFREY D SACHS
Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in Fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

A century later, we find ourselves in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are evident. The US-led order has come to an end, but the multipolar world has not yet been born. The urgent priority is to give rise to a new multilateral order that can maintain peace and the path toward sustainable development.

The US, an empire in decline

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
The international community is bewildered by the seemingly confusing decisions of Donald Trump and his team, but in my opinion, there is a certain consistency in all of them: the recognition of the United States' failure as a dominant global power and the retreat from its leadership.

The issue of tariffs is probably the most telling. Three decades ago, the United States felt like the victorious economic power in a globalized world. It believed its global production, sales, and distribution capacity was superior to that of other countries and that its market dominance was absolute.

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu confirms the division of the Gaza Strip and the creation of a new corridor called the Morag Corridor, which will cross the Strip just above the city of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt. In this way, Israel will have divided the Strip into three sectors. The first, from north to south, will reach the Netzarim Corridor. The second will be between this corridor and the Morag Corridor, and the third will be between this corridor and the Philadelphia Corridor, which separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

Pressure on the Palestinians continues to grow, and their expulsion from Gaza depends on a decision by Donald Trump. What the prime minister is doing now is "organizing" the Strip so that the deportation can be carried out quickly.

14 min read JONATHAN COOK

JONATHAN COOK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House this week broke the mask of 16 months of gaslighting by Western leaders and the entire Western establishment media. US President Donald Trump has finally stopped sugar-coating Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. Trump has dropped Washington's sugar-coating of Israel's 15-month-long genocidal destruction of Gaza. It was always about ethnic cleansing.

It was always, he told us, a massacre made in the USA. In his words, Washington will now “take over” Gaza and develop it. And the aim of the massacre was always ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, killed by Israel with US-supplied bombs. Gaza, meanwhile, would become the “Riviera of the Middle East”, with the “people of the world” – he meant rich whites like himself – living in luxury beachfront estates instead.

Germany will be the first country with a former BlackRock executive at the helm of government.

16 min read WERNER RÜGEMER 2

WERNER RÜGEMER
Germany will be the first country where a former BlackRock official becomes head of government. Friedrich Merz was not a "lobbyist," as is often described. He not only received a salary, but also held a leadership role within the group: the CDU politician was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the subsidiary BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland Aktiengesellschaft from 2016 to 2020. He reported to the New York headquarters of the largest capital organizer in the Western world, led by the United States. Merz was tasked with driving BlackRock's expansion in Germany.

Leila Guerriero: “What surprised me most was the stigma attached to survivors.”

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero was already a renowned journalist before publishing "The Call," but this book places her at a more than prominent position in the genre with which she is most identified: narrative journalism. In "The Call," Guerriero addresses the life of Silvia Labayru, a former militant of the Montoneros guerrilla group and a survivor of the former ESMA clandestine detention center—where she gave birth to one of her children and was systematically tortured and raped.

Romania awaits new presidential elections in crisis

11 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Romania's Central Election Bureau (CEB), the institution responsible for ensuring the security of the national elections, has finally announced: Călin Georgescu will not be able to run as a candidate for the presidential elections on May 4.

The vote to elect the new head of state in Romania was due to take place at the end of last year, but the Constitutional Court decided to annul the results of the first round of elections, held in November, and to have them repeated in 2025.

When Al Qaeda jihadists are good

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Today, a jihadist group from Al Qaeda has just violently seized power in a country that shares the Mediterranean coast with us, is two hours by plane from the EU and borders NATO. It does not seem like good news, but they are not going to present this Syrian splinter group of Al Qaeda or its leader Al Jawlani to us like this.

The reason that justifies this military coup in the eyes of the West is that the overthrown government of Al Assad was a partner of Russia, Lebanon and Iran, so Islamic terrorists are now seen in a different light in the West. It is time to launch an appropriate campaign to whitewash them.

Climate chaos: the world warms as Europe faces a new Ice Age

6 min read JULIAN CRIBB 0

JULIAN CRIBB
The hottest month of January ever recorded in the history of humanity has passed, without governments around the world and the international media having given so much as a wink.

The infamous epilogue of the West

4 min read Javier García 0

JAVIER GARCIA
The genocide that we witnessed live in Gaza is the infamous epilogue of the decline of Western dominance over the world, its most illustrative image. It is the absolute collapse of all the values that the West once proclaimed.

No one who supports what is happening by action or omission, no one who, having been able to do something to prevent it, has not done so, will be able to talk about human rights again after this without their face falling with shame.

Voices from the rubble

6 min read KHOLOUD FAQAWI

KHOLOUD FAQAWI
Khan Yunis
You define the nightmare, by the debris and dust that accumulates in your chest and fills your exhausted lungs as you try to close your eyes for 5 minutes and suddenly open them to a world of total destruction. This deadly assault does not refer only to Gaza or the Palestinians, but simply includes all human models of justice, human rights and freedom.

A Palestinian child at the site of an Israeli bombing of a mosque and several houses in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

(Never more)

4 min read ARUNDHATI ROY 0

ARUNDHATI ROY
The richest and most powerful countries in the Western world, those who believe themselves to be keepers of the flame of the modern world's commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Gaza Strip has become a concentration camp. Those who have not yet been killed are dying of hunger. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. Their homes, hospitals, universities, museums and infrastructure of all kinds have been reduced to rubble.

eloquent genocides

19 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU 0

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Historically, annihilating purposes are denied and hidden by their protagonists. The Young Turks, or the Nazis, for example, left hardly any declarative and printed evidence of their intentions against Armenians and Jews. Discretion prevailed.

Trump, Europe and the Middle East

5 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The big puzzle is how far Trump will go with the Gaza Strip. Israel clearly wants to return to colonisation. To facilitate this, it has been keeping the bulk of its population, 2,3 million Palestinians, moving around for a year, not allowing them to stay anywhere in safety. The apparent intention is to drive them back to Egypt. To do this, he needs the green light from the White House, something Joe Biden has not been willing to grant. The question is whether Trump will allow it.

A new multipolar Middle East

7 min read Javier García

JAVIER GARCIA
The agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, sponsored by China - which could also soon end the war in Yemen - is an event of special historical relevance and a clear example of how conflicts can be resolved in a multipolar world not constrained to the designs of a single hegemonic power. A model that they were certainly not used to in the region. China has emerged, to everyone's surprise, as the mediator that the Middle East needed. Something that for the United States, clearly aligned with one of the sides, has become totally impossible. Chinese mediation shows the constructive role that powers can play in the Middle East when they are not mired in regional rivalries.

Mexico: It's time for democracy to reach the judges

5 min read JUAN GARCIA 0

JUAN GARCIA
Under the pretext of ensuring the independence of the judiciary, impunity and arbitrariness are being encouraged. The independence of judges is only the means to achieve impartiality. The latter is the principle that must govern the actions of the judiciary, something that is often forgotten and is not required of judges who show their preferences for the most powerful. A caste that necessarily comes from a wealthy middle class, in many cases children and grandchildren of other judges, cannot be democratic.

Don't read this

5 min read LUIS BRITTO GARCÍA 0

LUIS BRITTO GARCÍA
Everything you read, write, speak, record, photograph, or communicate on a computing device will surely end up in the hands of a U.S. law enforcement agency or its accomplices. The same will happen with your own data, that of your loved ones and your recipients, with information about everything you own, use, buy, rent, consume, borrow, throw away or want. Everything will be recorded and preserved even after you have forgotten it or die, for the exclusive use of surveillance agencies or monopolies.

Aníbal Garzón: The Western media strategy against the BRICS is based on censorship and contempt

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.

Palestinians flee after being expelled from their homes in Al-Jalil, now part of Tel Aviv, in 1948.

Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war against Gaza

7 min read ILAN PAPPE

ILAN PAPPE
Dehistoricizing what is happening helps Israel and Western governments to implement policies that they have rejected in the past for ethical, tactical or strategic reasons. Thus, Israel uses the attack of October 7 as a pretext to implement genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. It is also a pretext for the United States to try to reassert its presence in the Middle East. And it is a pretext for some European countries to violate and limit democratic freedoms in the name of a new "war on terror."

Elections in France

5 min read Augusto Zamora R. 0

AUGUSTO ZAMORA R.
Has there been a new revolution in France? Have Robespierre's heirs taken power and are they going to establish a new social and economic order, one that dispossesses the banks, overthrows the obscene ruling class and strives to establish a less exploitative, unequal and corrupt system?

The German party that came out of the left and doubled its votes in five months

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
By now we all know the results of the elections to the European Parliament and we have drawn the main conclusions: victory for the right, leap for the extreme right, maintenance of social democracy and failure of the left and the greens. With slight variations, this panorama is the most generalized in the different European countries.

However, there is a phenomenon in these elections that is being analyzed little and that deserves to be studied because it may be perfectly viable to be carried out in many countries. This is the German party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW), a party that was founded five months ago as a split from the left (Die Linke) and has surpassed them by more than double the votes.

Syria, political Islam will not have a second chance

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the Greater Syria Liberation Organization in Damascus, speculation is open about the future of the country, which has been completely devastated by the international boycott, because Baathism, a socialist and pan-Arab ideology, never had the opportunity to exercise power, neither before 2011 nor after 2011, after the so-called Arab Spring.

The Baath's attempts have been left behind, thwarted time and again by Israeli-Western interference, which went so far as to punish Syria with terrible and undeserved sanctions that made any undertaking impossible, even before 2011. This continued situation has led to a supreme disaster, and the rapid advance of the rebels shows to what extent this has been the case.

China and the time of the BRICS

10 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
There is a virtually unanimous perception of a worsening of the major international dilemmas, whether we are referring to issues of peace or development, manifesting itself in open discontent with the different yardsticks applied to certain conflicts and the persistence in preserving an exclusive hegemony that does not take into sufficient consideration the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the international economy and society.

Morocco tries to “bypass” the UN in Western Sahara with the help of the West

5 min read RICARD GONZALEZ 0

RICARD GONZALEZ
In recent years, Morocco has succeeded in getting several Western powers to change their position on the Western Sahara conflict to align themselves with Rabat's theses, albeit to varying degrees. The first was the United States under Donald Trump, and the last was France under Macron, both of which have gone furthest in recognising Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.

The Israeli story of killing Hamas leaders seeking a ceasefire

5 min read MEHDI HASAN 0

MEHDI HASAN
“Israeli leaders killed three birds with one stone,” wrote Reuven Pedatzur, a military affairs analyst for the Israeli daily Haaretz. “They killed the man who had the power to strike a deal with Israel; they took revenge on someone who had caused quite a few Israeli casualties; and they signaled to Hamas that communications with it will only be carried out through military force.”

Was Pedatzur referring to the Israeli assassination of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, head of the group's political bureau, in Tehran early Wednesday?