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Trump's America: ecstasy or agony?

7 min read JOSEPH CAMILLERI

JOSEPH CAMILLERI
Trump's electoral victory is not the momentous or unexpected event that many have made it out to be. It is, however, an unmistakable sign of a society in slow decline in which frustration, anger and bewilderment are reaching epidemic proportions.

The inevitable question is: how did this man manage to be re-elected President of the United States?

This is, after all, a man who was twice impeached as president, who rejected the outcome of the previous election. He is known to have repeatedly lied to the electorate before, during and since his first presidential term. This is a man whose business dealings have long been under a cloud, and who is widely accused of deceit, abuse of power and sexual misconduct.

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Trump, Europe and the Middle East

5 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

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.

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A ghost is haunting the financial world: BRICS Pay

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
BRICS Pay will be a digital platform that would allow consumers and businesses in partner countries to make payments and transfer funds across borders with ease – precisely what we do now with SWIFT, except that they would not do so under Western domination. More than 50 countries have already expressed interest in joining this initiative ahead of the 2024 BRICS summit.

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China and the time of the BRICS

10 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
There is a virtually unanimous perception of a worsening of the major international dilemmas, whether we are referring to issues of peace or development, manifesting itself in open discontent with the different yardsticks applied to certain conflicts and the persistence in preserving an exclusive hegemony that does not take into sufficient consideration the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the international economy and society.

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The disarmed left

10 min read Txema Garcia Paredes 0 comments

TXEMA GARCIA WALLS
It must be said loud and clear. The so-called left, in general and to very different degrees, seems to be increasingly falling into the trap set by rampant capitalism on a planetary level. It plays on its field and by its rules, those imposed by capitalism itself. And so, it is impossible to win. And it does so with a referee bought in that great stadium with little lights that they have built called “Democracy” through a parliamentary system based on the delegation of votes, on “behave yourself and stay at home” and “don’t bother me again for four years” when you can vote again so that everything remains practically the same.

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Mexico: It's time for democracy to reach the judges

5 min read JUAN GARCIA 0 comments

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.

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Hunger is on the rise in Milei's Argentina

10 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
Milei, who had promised during his campaign that the adjustment would be paid for by the caste, or the most privileged sectors, has done nothing but attack the most disadvantaged, including retirees and millions of people who have been living in vulnerable situations for decades.

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Trumpism and anti-Trumpism are false decoy revolutions

9 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE 0 comments

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
Right-wingers dissatisfied with the American political status quo have been pushed to support a politician who embodies that status quo as much as any other president, mistakenly thinking that they are fighting a battle against the establishment in doing so. And this is reflected on the other side of the imagined partisan divide in American politics, with people making entire identities out of disdain for Donald Trump and acting as if this makes them brave revolutionaries.

As Gore Vidal once said:
“It doesn’t really matter whether the president is a Republican or a Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make people believe that it has had something to do with electing presidents for 200 years, when it has had absolutely no say in the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. A very small group controls almost everything.”

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The war between the United States and China is commercial and Olympic

4 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
On August 7, the Reuters agency uncovered a serious complaint that has gone largely unnoticed in the Western media. The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) allowed several athletes it had discovered between 2011 and 2014 violating anti-doping rules to continue competing then without being sanctioned.

The excuse given by the US authorities is that it was part of a plan for them to act covertly and continue competing without being prosecuted in exchange for information about other offenders. USADA maintains that the tactic is necessary and permitted, and wants to continue using it.

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US athletes were allowed to cheat, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency

2 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said this week in a statement that its American counterpart, USADA, has allowed doping among the athletes it supervises for years. Its management team has also admitted that it was aware of these events since 2021.

The North American organization justified its actions before WADA by assuring that it was going to use the cheating athletes to obtain incriminating evidence against the rest of the people involved in these acts.

America Latin America Principal2

Everything you need to know about the Venezuelan elections that you won't find in the media

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Following the election in Venezuela on July 28, you will have seen, heard and read many comments in the media of this type: “The Venezuelan government has committed fraud because it has not shown the voting records”, “The opposition has shown records that show that it won the elections”, “The government and the army are repressing the opposition who demonstrate against electoral fraud”, “Maduro did not allow representatives of the EU to enter as electoral observers”, “The left-wing governments of Latin America are demanding that Maduro present the electoral records”.

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Hate speeches (and crimes) in the Milei era

5 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
Andrea Amarante (42), Pamela Cobas (52), Roxana Figueroa (52) and Sofía Castro (49), shared a room in the Barracas neighborhood (Buenos Aires), until May 5 when they were victims of lesbicide. Pamela and her partner, Roxana, were sleeping in a double bed when they woke up engulfed in flames and tried to leave the room, but were pushed inside by Justo Fernando Barrientos.
Barrientos lived in an adjoining room and at midnight that day he opened the door to the room where the women lived, threw a homemade explosive at them and started the fire. Pamela, Mercedes and Andrea died as a result of the fire.