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End Israel's war against peace

7 min read JEFFREY D SACHS

JEFFREY SACHS AND SYBIL FARES
A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israeli-American war against Iran. The war achieved absolutely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have accomplished in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and is now open again, but under greater Iranian control.

Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is determined to break the ceasefire, as this was an Israeli war from the start. Israel dazzled Trump with the prospect of a one-day decapitation strike that would put him in control of Iranian oil. Israel, in turn, sought a greater prize: to topple the Iranian regime and thus become the hegemonic power in West Asia.

The empire betrays itself

4 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTON
It used to be difficult to make Westerners see the depravity of the American empire. Now it's there, before everyone's eyes, with stark images of genocide and an incredibly perverse warmongering with direct economic consequences.

It took a lot of work to help the average Westerner understand that NATO aggression actively provoked the war in Ukraine, or that Western interventionism played a key role in the violence and chaos in Syria, or that the US economic war was largely responsible for the suffering of Cubans and Venezuelans.

The United States is not winning the war: Trump's four lies and one truth

3 min read DAE -HAN SONG

DAE-HAN SONG

Trump is known for his careless disregard for the truth. Therefore, we in South Korea must examine his words and claims critically. In fact, many of the claims in his recent April 1st (US time) speech are false and constitute disinformation. So, let's clear up the confusion:

Photo of the girls' elementary school in Minab (Iran) hit by a bombing, published in X by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.

8 min read MAHMOUD ASLAN 0

MAHMOUD ASLAN
Minab and Tehran (Iran)

Mohammed Shariatmadar stood before the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyiba girls' primary school in Minab, southern Iran, on Saturday morning, unable to take in what he was seeing.

Her six-year-old daughter, Sara, a second-grade student, was one of dozens of girls who died when the school was bombed in the early hours of the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran.

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.

Artificial intelligence threatens to increase inequality

5 min read STEVEN SEAMAN

STEVE SEAMAN

A quarter of the world's population, 2.200 billion people, still lack internet access, according to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This digital divide risks widening with the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2025, 85% of urban residents used the internet, but almost half of the rural population (58%) still did not. The digital divide also shows a marked gender bias: it affects 52% of women compared to 42% of men.

Juan Torres: Economics has become the biggest intellectual fraud in history

8 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
We live in times when we constantly hear alarmist voices from the left about the rise of the far right, or even fascism. We see leaders fervently defending neoliberal economic policies, from Milei with his chainsaw to Trump with his tariffs. Therefore, finding a book that attempts to analyze this rigorously, without merely scratching the surface, is a welcome relief.

Iran and the book that recounts the CIA's first coup d'état

5 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0

PASCUAL SERRANO
One of journalism's shortcomings is that it allows itself to be dominated by the frenetic pace of current events and overlooks historical context. In the case of geopolitics, this means that citizens, no matter how much information they consume, cannot fully decipher reality. The most obvious example these days is Iran.

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.

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.

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.

With Nicolás Maduro on the eve of his kidnapping

8 min read IGNACIO RAMONET 0

IGNACIO RAMONET
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before 2:00 a.m. on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack under the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames illuminating a stunned, sleepless, and silent Caracas. And then, like a punch to the gut, the news of the kidnapping…

The Venezuelan revolution is still standing: dismantling Trump's psychological operation

10 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Following the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate disinformation campaign has been carried out to sow doubts about the survival of the country's revolution.

The execution of “Operation Absolute Resolve” by the United States, a targeted bombing and the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, has created a moment of profound crisis, but also of profound clarity.

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?

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.