JAVIER GARCÍA We are witnessing a terrifying global drift. The non-acceptance by the United States of its decline as a global hegemonic power is stressing the planet to unimaginable extremes. The so-called “Thucydides trap”, which describes the tendency for a hegemonic power to go to war when threatened by an emerging one, is fully unfolding before our eyes with all its devastating consequences. The hegemon, who considers himself threatened, displays his most sinister face both internally and externally: censorship, suffocating manipulation of media messages, single discourse, maximum use of fear as a political weapon.

RICARD GONZÁLEZ Western Sahara was one of those many frozen conflicts scattered around the world until Donald Trump became president of the United States. And it was not like that because he had any interest in this dispute, or the Maghreb, in general, but he used it as a lever to intervene in another conflict that was dear to his environment or his bases: that of Palestine.

LAURA FEAL Dakar In the western conventional media there are few times, if not none, that the African continent is looked at. Wars, diseases and coups d'état are presented with hardly any analysis of the complex causes that generate them or the implications that Western powers play in each of these circumstances.