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On Chinese threats and American friends

4 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.

With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing Venezuelan oil.

Milei goes for everything and against everyone

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surplus hides an adjustment that has slowed consumption, destroyed salaries, increased rates, punished one of the most vulnerable sectors of society - the retirees - and fueled a time bomb in a country where more than half of the population is poor (57%).
Many of those who supported him (and support him) are beginning to question the deadlines.

The president promised that in about two years the accounts could be cleaned up and the results reflected, but a good part of the population no longer has room to continue adjusting and is beginning to get impatient.

The judicial farce against Julian Assange

8 min read FABIAN SCHEIDLER 0

FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Common sense says that the Iranian attack against Israel in the early hours of April 14 will not escalate, but logic does not always work in the Middle East. Departing from logic has been common within the Israeli leadership for many decades and has been publicly stated by senior officials of successive governments since the establishment of the state in 1948, some of whom developed the doctrine of disproportionate response, so It remains an open question whether Israel will behave one way or another.

6 min read JEFFREY D SACHS 0

JEFFREY D. SACHS AND SYBIL FARES
The two-state solution is enshrined in international law and is the only viable path to lasting peace. All other solutions - continuation of Israel's apartheid regime, a binational state or a unitary state - would guarantee the continuation of the war by one or both sides. However, the two-state solution seems hopelessly blocked. But it's not like that. Here is a way.

Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making Palestine's admission to the United Nations the starting point, not the end point. UN member states will have to impose the two-state solution, rather than wait for another Palestinian-Israeli negotiation to fail.

The Zangezur corridor, the key piece of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan

4 min read Jayro sanchez 0

JAYRO SANCHEZ
For Baku there are only two alternative routes to the long detour to bring its gas to Europe. The first is to transfer the gas to Turkey through northern Iran, although it is unfeasible. Tehran is one of Russia's closest partners in the region and has always distrusted Azerbaijan and its relations with the Azeri-Iranian minority, which it sees as a pan-Turkic fifth column within its own population.

The road to Ma Ying-jeou's house

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0

XULIO RIOS
Ma Ying-jeou's trip to mainland China takes place just over a month after the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, who will take over from Tsai Ing-wen on May 20, and in a context marked by the reaffirmation of the two paths that define the Taiwanese crossroads: irreducible hostility towards an independence movement without a majority on the island, but with notable international support and, alternatively, the establishment of bridges that help preserve and develop the ties between Beijing and Taipei with the perspective of peaceful reunification.

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.

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.

While they tell you that in Davos they are going to fix the world

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
The Oxfam organization has just published a report on inequality in the world, “Inequality SA”, which has the subtitle “A huge concentration of corporate and monopolistic power is exacerbating inequality in the global economy.” A work that brings a lot of light in these days when the media is dedicated to reporting on the World Economic Forum or Davos Forum.

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.

Proclaimed and recognized

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.

Joaquín Araujo: the rise in temperatures and droughts herald a not-so-distant hydric collapse

8 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Joaquín Araújo is a Spanish naturist, writer and journalist who has dedicated a large part of his life to making humanity aware of the dangers and suffering that the ecological degradation of the planet can cause. In this summer season in the northern hemisphere, with all the alarms going off due to the unstoppable rise in temperatures and the lack of water, we talked to him about the threat of climate change.

The seven lives of Mohammed Deif

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 1

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The Israelis believed that Mohammed Deif had serious functional difficulties that forced him to move around in a wheelchair, but videos released this week by the army show the head of the Hamas militias in the Gaza Strip fully functional, which has exposed the secret services to criticisms that must be added to those already accumulated in recent months.

Mohammed Deif has survived seven army attacks and on several occasions Israel has left him for dead, only to have to rectify them later.

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.

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 implement policies that they rejected in the past for ethical, tactical or strategic considerations. Thus, Israel uses the October 7 attack as a pretext to apply genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. It is also a pretext for the United States to try to reaffirm 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.”

The transformation of Russia and the scenes of war

9 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
It took them years in Moscow to understand the seriousness of the Western globalist project that envisioned a subaltern Russia with a comprador national elite subordinated to the large Western transnationals. They were slow to understand that there was no intention of recognizing "sovereignties" or private preserves of the Russian oligarchic elite derived from the traditional state control that this elite has of business, privatizations and embezzlement in the largest country in the world.

The data that shows who is winning the Ukrainian war two years later

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
Two years after the start of the Ukrainian war, we will hear all kinds of versions about who is winning the war. Some will say that Ukraine is winning because Russia has not fulfilled its dream of taking kyiv in a few weeks, as it intended at the beginning. Others will say that it is Russia that, little by little, is triumphing because Western sanctions have proven useless, military support from the United States is running out and the advances on the front in recent months are from the Russian army in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. that showed itself to be a failure. But I will be the one to tell you who is really winning the war: the arms industry.

A ray of hope

13 min read CRAIG MURRAY

CRAIG MURRAY
That the ICJ has not affirmed Israel's right to self-defense is perhaps the most important point of this provisional resolution. He is the dog that didn't bark. The argument that all Western leaders have been using has been rejected by the court. The ICJ did not repeat that an occupying power has no right to self-defense. It was not necessary. He simply ignored Israel's misleading claim.

COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

7 min read DAVID SPRATT and IAN DUNLOP 1

DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

The presidents of Venezuela and Guyana, Nicolás Maduro and Irfaan Ali, during their meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Celac silenced the drums of war that the US wanted to sound between Guyana and Venezuela

9 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0

KAREN MENDEZ
Peace won, at least for now, the commitment to dialogue won, Latin America and the Caribbean won, our people won, and today they can sleep in peace and hug their families without the fear of being overwhelmed by a war that they tried to impose. from outside.

Israel strives to tame US president

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On the one hand, we have these criticisms of Israel, including those from the US, and on the other, the daily supply of bombs that, according to a good part of Western public opinion - including some American senators such as Elizabeth Warren - serves to facilitate the exercise of continued genocide. The images circulating are terrible and it is understandable that Hebrew television stations censor themselves. The average Israeli is in favor of war and the systematic destruction of the Gaza Strip, according to polls, and does not want to see disturbing images at dinner time.

Luis Gonzalo Segura: analyzing the war in Ukraine independently has a very high cost

10 min read Jayro sanchez 0

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Luis Gonzalo Segura is a former lieutenant in the Spanish Army. He was expelled from the Armed Forces for denouncing his corruption publicly in 2015. He is now a writer and collaborates in various media outlets. In his latest book, The Ukrainian Trap (Akal, 2023), he presents the key events of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. We spoke with him about the war and the latest events.

Where is China going?

24 min read SABINO VACA NARVAJA 0

SABINO VACA NARVAJA
What does the statement made by North American President Joe Biden saying that the Chinese economy “is a time bomb” and the recent reaction of tycoon Elon Musk calling for tariffs or trade barriers to be imposed on BYD, the main Chinese electric car manufacturing company have in common?

The answer is very simple: China alienates and confuses the West, which tends to adopt a distorted and somewhat whimsical vision of the Asian country's political and economic system, at once ahistorical and decontextualized, particularly in relation to what is happening with its economic growth, its productive system and its institutional structure.

The current Taiwanese vice president, Lai Ching-te, celebrates his victory in the presidential elections.

Elections: More PDP in Taiwan, more tension in the Strait?

3 min read XULIO RIOS 0

XULIO RIOS
What can be expected from Lai Ching-te as president is an intensification of the projections recorded in the last two terms of the PDP with Tsai Ing-wen at the helm. That is, a firm commitment to political rapprochement with the United States, also economically, defensively and strategically. Lai's Taiwan reaffirms its validity and importance as a pivotal point for the US in Asia.