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The exceptional clemency that Netanyahu is requesting

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
In the midst of his trial, and after nearly six years in court on several corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog, who will have to decide in the coming weeks. Many experts believe he will likely pardon the prime minister with some conditions, the extent of which is still unknown.

The Serbian high command that organized the human safaris in Bosnia was a CIA agent

8 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
The emerging reports about the "human safaris" in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War point to Jovica Stanisic as "the Serbian officer in charge of organizing the trips for the wealthy snipers." In fact, the investigation by the Milanese judiciary identifies Stanisic as the coordinator of these trips under the guise of "hunting excursions."
But who exactly is Jovica Stanisic? The media are simply reporting that he is the former head of Serbia's State Security Directorate (SDB), and that he was sentenced in 2023 to 15 years in prison for crimes committed in seven municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But if we investigate further and examine the documents from his trial, we discover that behind the high-ranking official under Milošević, what was actually lurking was a CIA agent.

Western Sahara: neither a turning point nor a historic vote

7 min read ISAIAH BARREÑADA 0

ISAIAS BARREÑADA
On October 31, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Western Sahara (S/RES/2797) which, as with previous resolutions, extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for one year and outlined a series of guidelines for resolving the conflict. The difference from previous resolutions is that it gave greater prominence to Morocco's proposal for autonomy in the territory.

13 min read EMMANUEL TODD 0

EMMANUEL TODD
Less than two years after the French publication of The Defeat of the West, in January 2024, the book's main predictions have come true. Russia has withstood the military and economic impact. The US military industry is exhausted. European economies and societies are on the verge of implosion. Even before the Ukrainian army collapses, the next stage of the West's disintegration has been reached.

I have always been hostile to the Russophobic policies of the United States and Europe, but as a Westerner committed to liberal democracy, a Frenchman trained in research in England, and the son of a mother who took refuge in the United States during World War II, I am appalled by the consequences for us Westerners of the unintelligent war waged against Russia.

6 min read Shahad Ali 0

SHAHAD ALI
As the Israeli army launches the first phase of its latest military operation in Gaza City—aiming to completely occupy the area and displace its approximately one million inhabitants southward—the city has descended into an endless hell. Night after night, relentless and terrifying explosions rob us of sleep. Entire neighborhoods are being invaded and demolished, forcing families to flee to an uncertain fate, while bloody massacres have become a grim part of daily life.

For a moment, these cruel scenes remind us of the first months of the war, when Israeli forces, for the first time, forced the city's residents to flee south under the threat of a ground invasion. The sky then looked the same as it does now: gray and covered with thick smoke, signaling imminent danger. People's faces reflected the same unbearable anxiety and fear, only now the concern is more acute: we fear that this time we will be forced to leave Gaza City forever, never to be allowed to return.

China: one plan away from the top

11 min read XULIO RIOS 0

XULIO RIOS
During the 14th Five-Year Plan, which is now coming to an end, China has continued to advance, even weathering the trade and technology war with some ease, demonstrating that it can no longer be easily intimidated (rare earths have become its main bargaining chip with Washington). Chinese manufacturing output accounts for more than 35% of the world's total, and it is catching up with the US in every field and is already a world leader in some. China is approaching the top.

Mariano Sánchez Soler: "The corruption of Franco's regime has barely been investigated."

6 min read Jayro sanchez 0

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Mariano Sánchez Soler is a Spanish journalist, writer, and historian. He is known for authoring several fundamental studies on Franco's regime and the ultraconservative legacy of Spanish democracy. He has just published La familia Franco SA (Editorial Roca, 2025). We spoke with him about the business dealings and secrets of the longest-running dictatorship of the 20th century in the West.

Russian attack on Von der Leyen: Frame-up or sabotage?

11 min read JASIEL PARIS 0

JASIEL PARIS
On August 31, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen landed in Bulgaria after reporting interference with her plane's GPS. The Financial Times reported that the plane was forced to continue flying for an hour without the ability to land, until the pilots landed manually using paper maps.

The Bulgarian government stated that they strongly suspected Russia as the attacker, and a day later, several voices from the European Commission (Finland's Anna-Kaisa Ikonen and Italy's Arianna Podestà) told the world that Russia had tried to sabotage Von der Leyen's flight.

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.”

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.

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.

Looking at the books in the home library, the trembling of the shelves echoes in the cries of the victims in every tragedy. It's very difficult, amidst so much cruelty, to save the works of Orwell, Kafka, Shakespeare, or even Camus or Nietzsche.

Five theses on the situation in Nepal

10 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0

VIJAY PRASHAD AND ATUL CHANDRA
Following the resignation of Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Oli amid massive protests driven by the country's youth, various narratives have circulated that simplify and distort the complexities and realities on the ground in Nepal that are at the root of this crisis.

If your house is not clean, ants will enter through the door and attract snakes.

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.

The Israeli authorities have openly proclaimed these intentions with astonishing eloquence. Bathed in a self-justifying national ideology of colonialism and supremacism with roots that link religion and ethnicity, and that routinely dehumanizes Palestinians, Israeli society naturally consumes, assumes and projects the message.

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 put an end to the war in Yemen shortly - is an event of special historical relevance and a clear example of how conflicts can be resolved in a multipolar world not constrained by 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.

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. The same will happen with your trips, infractions or contraventions: everything will be recorded and preserved even after you have forgotten it or die, for the exclusive use of surveillance agencies or monopolies.

Western sanctions on the South have caused 560.000 deaths each year since 2012.

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
A study by the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet has calculated the mortality rate caused by the sanctions imposed by the US, the EU, and the UN. The data is chilling. Unilateral sanctions during the period 2012-2021 caused 564.258 deaths each year. And if we go back to the unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and the EU since 1970, they are associated with a total of 38 million deaths.

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
The dehistoricization of what is happening helps Israel and Western governments pursue policies they rejected in the past for ethical, tactical, or strategic reasons. Thus, Israel uses the October 7 attack as a pretext to pursue 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.

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.

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.

Xi Jinping announces carbon emissions cuts at the same UN summit where Trump denies global warming

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
For decades, we've been told that in the West, in democratic and capitalist countries, awareness was growing about the need to reduce carbon emissions in order to save the planet and that measures were being taken. At the same time, we were told that China and its communist system were the main emitter of gases and that its authorities were not taking action to correct them.

The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

7 min read CHRIS HEDGES 0

CHRIS HEDGES
The murder of Charlie Kirk heralds a deadly new phase in the disintegration of a divided and highly polarized United States. While toxic rhetoric and threats are launched across cultural divides like hand grenades, sometimes erupting into actual violence—including the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump—Kirk's killing is a harbinger of larger-scale societal disintegration.

European indignity in the face of Trump's deception

7 min read JUAN TORRES 0

JUAN TORRES
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, have just staged a truly shameless piece of theater.

As he has done with other countries, Donald Trump has not sought a trade agreement with the European Union that would be beneficial to the interests of the US economy, as he insists.

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 "La llamada," but this book places her in a more than prominent place 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.