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COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

7 min read DAVID SPRATT and IAN DUNLOP 1 comment

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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The infamous epilogue of the West

4 min read Javier García 0 comments

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.

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On the “champion and commissioner” of human rights in the world

5 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
If there is any country that boasts of defending human rights around the world, it is the United States. In the name of these rights, it imposes sanctions on countries, freezes funds from other governments abroad, orders the arrest of world leaders and even their relatives, and intervenes militarily anywhere in the world.

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day this December, let's take a look at that country that takes on the role of global watchdog.

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

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

9 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

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.

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Death and destruction in Gaza

7 min read JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER 0 comments

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
I don't think anything I say about what's happening in Gaza is going to affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want it on the record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.

What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, a leading Israel lobby organization, says: “The scope of the humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties taking place is almost unfathomable.”

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Two nights in Santiago with Roger Waters

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
“Stop the Genocide” in white letters on a red background appears on the screens above the band's heads, as guitars tear through the night.

Nobody puts on a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers, the movies, the energy of the fans who - despite linguistic differences - chant...

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Carbon colonialism, COP28 and climate crisis

5 min read AMY GOODMAN and DENIS MOYNIHAN 0 comments

AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
Dubai
While lobbyists enjoy virtually unlimited access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to get credentials than in previous years. Add to that the United Arab Emirates' 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 producers of oil, not a climate COP.”

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When “internationalism” becomes a dirty word

5 min read DANIEL LARISON

DANIEL LARISON
As long as the world's leading power refuses to respect the limits of international law, it will always be a destabilizing force in the world and will contribute to future conflicts. A principled, internationalist approach to the world requires that the United States not only respect the laws it expects others to respect, but also hold itself and its customers to the highest standards. Any attempt to establish exceptions or create loopholes for the US and US-aligned states will serve to undermine international law and encourage further violations.

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Guyana, the spearhead of the US to expand militarily in Latin America

10 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

KAREN MENDEZ
The United States intends to use a historic territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo to promote an armed conflict in Latin America, justify military expansion in the region and thus take control of the continent's immense wealth, as confessed by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson.

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Earthquake announced

7 min read LUIS BILBAO 0 comments

LUIS BILBAO
It's not lightning in a clear sky. The collapse of the institutions of capital, the decay of the system and the stench of decomposition from its leadership, comes from afar. And in the last two decades it accelerated to a paroxysm. It is not a turn to the extreme right of society that caused the collapse, but the other way around: it is the collapse of capitalist democracy that caused a social spasm and this circumstantial electoral result.

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About Milei, the form and the substance

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
My personal opinion is that Milei will simply be another neoliberal government, nothing out of the ordinary. Their shouts and radicalisms are just the new method, now dominant, of managing to raise illusions of rupture in outraged populations (we will see this in the analysis of the form, later), but without any ideological definition.

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Biden–Xi: an anti-cyclonic summit

7 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.