The new international media for a changing world – The new international media for a changing world
PASCUAL SERRANO
According to calculations by the think tank Common Wealth, the social cost of carbon emissions from the US and UK armies is approximately $111.000 billion. Money that is stolen from the finances of the nations most threatened by the climate crisis.
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.
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.
Read moreCRAIG MURRAY
The people who really didn't want to be there were the judges, because in fact it is the judges and the Court itself that are being judged. The fact of genocide is incontrovertible and has been clearly stated. But several of the judges are desperate to find a way to please the United States and Israel and avoid rebutting the current Zionist narrative, the adoption of which is necessary to keep the elite's feet comfortably under the table.
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.
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RICARD GONZALEZ
Tunisia
While the entire world looks in horror at Gaza, Egypt, the only country adjacent to the martyred Palestinian strip, apart from Israel, is distracted by rather irrelevant elections. Starting Sunday, and for three consecutive days, Egyptians are summoned to the polls to endorse the dictator who rules the country with an iron fist: Marshal Abdelfattah Al-Sisi.
AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
Dubai
While lobbyists enjoy virtually unfettered access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to secure credentials than in previous years. Add to this the UAE’s authoritarian and strict ban on protests, and the UN climate summit looks more like what climate scientist Kevin Anderson wrote on social media: “a cabal of oil producers, not a climate COP.”
DAVID SOLER CRESPO
Nairobi
Now, Africa is more important than ever. While in the Caribbean countries like Barbados have taken the step of becoming a republic in 2021 and after the death of Elizabeth II others like Jamaica or Australia are considering doing the same and even leaving the organization, on the African continent the opposite is true.
It is no longer just the former British colonies that want to join, but also other French-speaking countries that are turning to this association, tired of their relations with their former colonial power.
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PASCUAL SERRANO
After the attack by Hamas on Israel, the hackneyed concept of terrorism has returned to the present, with which it is intended, through this accusation, to disavow some and, through the fight against it, legitimize the actions of others.
It is assumed that, at least the press and journalists, should use language in a neutral way, not conditioned by the bias of certain political powers. According to the RAE, terrorism is “Domination by terror” or “Succession of acts of violence carried out to instill terror.” It is evident that under this consideration we could include many issues that the media never think of calling terrorism.
Read moreZOE ALEXANDRA AND VIJAY PRASHAD
On September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Bamako, the Malian capital.
It is clear that it is not a simple military or security pact. It remains to be seen whether these countries will be able to create an economic agenda that benefits their people and thereby ensure that France has no means to exert its authority over the region.
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XULIO RIOS
The Belt and Road Initiative (IFR) celebrates its first decade of implementation in 2023. The time elapsed supports it as a long-term project. Two attitudes have marked the global reaction to it. On the one hand, developing countries have celebrated being able to have an alternative proposal that focuses on their most pressing needs, especially in terms of infrastructure.
China's plan provides specific support in areas poorly served by traditional available financing, filling a gap of singular importance. On the other hand, developed countries have evolved from initial ambiguity and reservation to a certain competitive hostility.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
The more inner work you do and the more awareness you bring to your own internal processes, the more you understand the extent to which human consciousness is dominated by mental narrative. And the more you understand the extent to which it is dominated, the more aware you become of how much power someone could gain over other people by controlling those narratives.
After a while, you start to understand that no one sees reality as it is. Not even you. What we are perceiving are a bunch of mental stories that we have formed about the world, based on information that we have absorbed through prescriptive filters greatly distorted by our conditioning, prejudices and cognitive habits.
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