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Luis Gonzalo Segura: analyzing the war in Ukraine independently has a very high cost

10 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Luis Gonzalo Segura is a former lieutenant in the Spanish Army. He was expelled from the Armed Forces for denouncing his corruption publicly in 2015. He is now a writer and collaborates in various media outlets. In his latest book, The Ukrainian Trap (Akal, 2023), he presents the key events of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. We spoke with him about the war and the latest events.

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The judicial farce against Julian Assange

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FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

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Gestures of complicity between Spain and China with a European perspective

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The recent visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, to Spain has left important messages. The first, the outstretched hand, the willingness to continue promoting bilateral cooperation at all levels. For Beijing, Spain continues to be a “good and reliable partner.” The absence of conflict is a notable characteristic of Spanish-Chinese relations.

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The data that shows who is winning the Ukrainian war two years later

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
Two years after the start of the Ukrainian war, we will hear all kinds of versions about who is winning the war. Some will say that Ukraine is winning because Russia has not fulfilled its dream of taking kyiv in a few weeks, as it intended at the beginning. Others will say that it is Russia that, little by little, is triumphing because Western sanctions have proven useless, military support from the United States is running out and the advances on the front in recent months are from the Russian army in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. that showed itself to be a failure. But I will be the one to tell you who is really winning the war: the arms industry.

Africa Archived Europe

Rwanda, the new Fachoda complex between France and Great Britain

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.

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ICJ could order Israel to immediately suspend its military operation against Gaza

13 min read MARJORIE COHN 3 comments

MARJORIE COHN
The interim measures requested by South Africa include ordering Israel to “immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza” and to cease and desist from killing and causing serious physical or mental harm to Palestinians, from inflicting living conditions on them designed to destroy them totally or partially, and to impose measures to prevent Palestinian births. These measures can be issued quickly.

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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.

Archived Europe

A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Sahra Wagenknecht

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The fact that there is a split on the left is nothing exceptional, what is new about this is that the exit is to the left, led by such charismatic politicians as the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht (she was vice president of the party and is the wife of the historic leftist leader Oskar Lafontaine) and the polls give him a voting intention of up to 14%, which would mean fourth place, only behind the Christian Democrats of the CDU, the ultras of the AfD and hot on the heels of the Social Democrats of the SPD.

Africa Archived Europe

Kenya: the Commonwealth's spearhead in Africa

9 min read DAVID SOLER CRESPO

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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A report from the US Congress recognizes the success of Russian media in Latin America

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."

Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."

José Manuel Martín Medem in Madrid. Photo: Paola Gómez

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Martín Medem: the idea of public service that governed the media has been adulterated

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
José Manuel Martín Medem is a veteran Spanish journalist specialized in Latin American information. He was a correspondent for RTVE in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba for a decade and is now a member of its Board of Directors. In 1982, he was awarded the National Human Rights Journalism Award.

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The polls in Poland give a boost to Brussels and Zelensky

6 min read RICARD GONZALEZ

RICARD GONZALEZ
warsaw
Never before have elections in Poland been followed with so much interest beyond its borders, especially in Brussels, kyiv and Moscow. Two very different, if not antithetical, projects faced each other at the polls, both in foreign and domestic policy. The opposition's victory was received with relief and satisfaction both in the heart of the European Union and in Ukraine, although instead of a solution to its underlying problems, the result represents rather a lifeline of perhaps several months.