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Laura Lanuza, spokesperson for Open Arms: the Mediterranean is a great mass grave for migrants

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Laura Lanuza is one of the most veteran activists and the head of communication for the humanitarian organization OpenArms, which was founded in 2015 by the Spanish lifeguard and businessman Óscar Camps with the aim of protecting the lives of people abandoned in international waters. fleeing war conflicts, persecution or poverty. We spoke to her about the rise in migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marx as a solution to the climate crisis

6 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
“Are you taking any action against global warming? Have you bought ecological bags to reduce the use of plastic ones? Do you always carry a canteen to avoid buying drinks in PET containers? Have you changed your old car for a hybrid one?
I will tell you clearly: only with that kind of well-intentioned measures you will not get anywhere; what's more, they could even be counterproductive”.

With these provocative words begins the book by the Japanese Kohei Saito "Capital in the era of the Anthropocene" (Editions B, 2022), an era in which the footprint of human activity completely covers the face of the Earth.

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The Global South rejects pressure to side with the West against Russia

6 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
New Delhi
On the first day of the Munich conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was "shocked by how much credibility we are losing in the Global South." The “we” in Macron's statement were the Western states, led by the United States.

Whether fed up with pressure from the West or seeing economic opportunities in their relationship with Russia, more and more countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have avoided pressure from Washington to cut ties with Moscow.

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Qaradawi and his Islamist legacy

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On September 26, the influential thinker Yusuf al Qaradawi died in Qatar at the age of 96. It is not easy to give notice of the traces that throughout his long life he has left on contemporary Islam, of the phobias and philias that his words have aroused and arouse in detractors and followers, elites and ordinary people, and of the feelings that they awoke in regions prone to polarization.

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Egypt walks steadily towards economic and political collapse

5 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The economic and political situation in Egypt has been alarming for years. The global crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine has had a very negative impact on this country of more than 100 million inhabitants, which since 2013 has been ruled by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with an iron hand.

Peasants from the south of the country occupy the square of the seat of the Government in Tunis. Photo: Javier Garcia

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The bitter balance of the “Arab Springs”

7 min read RICARD GONZALEZ

RICARD GONZALEZ
As if it were a circular play, the democratic hopes born of the so-called "Arab Springs" have ended in the same place where it all began: Tunisia.

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South of Granada

7 min read ERNESTO COLLAZO

ERNESTO COLLAZO
In the year 2022, when the US has been defeated in Afghanistan and with 8.000 million people on the planet, military, economic and political hegemony cannot be maintained within the same domain parameters, using force, threats and blackmail. .

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It's time for a female, Asian, Latin American or African IOC president

4 min read JESUS MANSO GOMEZ 0 comments

JESUS MANSO GOMEZ
In 2025 the IOC must elect a new president. The 9 presidents so far have been men, all of them white, all of them from Europe or the US. Is it possible that the next president will be president and from a different continent?

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Western Sahara, the old "war" that reorders the Maghreb

4 min read RICARD GONZALEZ

RICARD GONZALEZ
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 so 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.

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Africa, the continent that is only looked at in the catastrophe

7 min read LAURA FEAL 0 comments

LAURA FEAL
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In the conventional western media there are few times, if not null, that the African continent is looked at. Wars, diseases and coups are presented with hardly any analysis of the complex causes that generate them or the implications that the Western powers play in each of these circumstances.

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Pain and hope, the daily life of Saharawi refugees

9 min read FERNANDO IÑIGUEZ 0 comments

FERNANDO IÑIGUEZ
The curse in the form of no desire of Islam says, "may Allah not send you to the hamada". And it is in the Algerian hamada, near the city of Tindouf, in the southwest of the vast Maghreb country, where since 1975 nearly a quarter of a million people have lived without a country, without luck or benefit and who have been denied the right to to choose your destiny.