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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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The European Union could break up over its policy in Ukraine

10 min read Michael von der Schulenburg 0 comments

MICHAEL VON DER SCHULENBURG AND RUTH FIRMENICH
The fundamental problem with the European Parliament's Ukraine resolution is that the EU has neither the power nor the influence to enforce any of the war aims it contains. Its call for an uncompromising continuation of the war until Ukraine achieves military victory over Russia comes at a time when Ukraine is no longer in a position to win this war by military means.

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Spain and China, a linchpin for dialogue

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The visit of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez to China has enabled two important observations. First, that the harmony between both parties persists and that it is revealed as a political capital of great relevance to face common challenges. And second, that both governments are working together to promote dialogue as the main mechanism to find negotiated solutions to tariff tensions with the EU.

View of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. Photo: Txema García Paredes

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Guggenheim: the Altri of Urdaibai

7 min read Txema Garcia Paredes 0 comments

TXEMA GARCIA WALLS
From Palas de Rei (Lugo) to Murueta (Bizkaia) there are 581 kilometres by road. However, all this distance is reduced to nothing if we consider that their destinations are linked by a full-blown embezzlement, if someone or something does not remedy it beforehand.

Both are candidates to win a macabre lottery with different signs. These are two megaprojects with the same formula of stealing from citizens based on “public-private” collaboration, a euphemism that consists of giving away public money to economic and business elites eager to make a fortune.

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The silencing

4 min read Javier García 0 comments

JAVIER GARCIA
While the conflict in Ukraine escalates dangerously and Israel continues to bomb Gaza and prepare - with the help of the United States - a major war in the Middle East with an eye on Lebanon, Iran, Yemen or Syria, silence any story that falls outside the narrative official is the parallel strategy.

In the throes of this calamitous world order propped up by wars and censorship, supporting independent journalism has become more urgent than ever. At least if we are not willing to survive with the only voice of Big Brother howling in the desert. Either we stand up to this horrible drift or the silence will end up devouring us.

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Morocco tries to “bypass” the UN in Western Sahara with the help of the West

5 min read RICARD GONZALEZ 0 comments

RICARD GONZALEZ
In recent years, Morocco has succeeded in getting several Western powers to change their position on the Western Sahara conflict to align themselves with Rabat's theses, albeit to varying degrees. The first was the United States under Donald Trump, and the last was France under Macron, both of which have gone furthest in recognising Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.

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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.

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Shooting Europe in the foot with sanctions against Russia

12 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
For several years, even before the start of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, the European Union has been applying economic sanctions against Russia with the conviction that, in this way, they would achieve the collapse of its economy, generate social unrest and that would facilitate achieving its great objective, the fall of Putin's government.

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Elections in France

5 min read Augusto Zamora R. 0 comments

AUGUSTO ZAMORA R.
Has there been a new revolution in France? Have Robespierre's heirs taken power and are they going to establish a new social and economic order, one that dispossesses the banks, overthrows the obscene ruling class and strives to establish a less exploitative, unequal and corrupt system?

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Approaching the abyss of war

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
I don't know if we are aware, but, with the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the world is in the most warlike moment since the Second World War. It is not my statement, it is the annual study on global peace by the Institute for Economics and Peace. According to their analysis, the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine were the main drivers of the global decline in terms of peace, as battle deaths reached 162.000 in 2023, this is the second highest figure in the last 30 years, and the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza accounted for almost three-quarters of the deaths.

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The German party that came out of the left and doubled its votes in five months

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
By now we all know the results of the elections to the European Parliament and we have drawn the main conclusions: victory for the right, leap for the extreme right, maintenance of social democracy and failure of the left and the greens. With slight variations, this panorama is the most generalized in the different European countries.

However, there is a phenomenon in these elections that is being analyzed little and that deserves to be studied because it may be perfectly viable to be carried out in many countries. This is the German party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW), a party that was founded five months ago as a split from the left (Die Linke) and has surpassed them by more than double the votes.

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Ana Miranda: the EPP MEPs have washed the face of the extreme right

8 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Ana Miranda is a Galician jurist and politician. She has been a deputy of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in the European Parliament in the last legislature and is running again on the Ahora Repúblicas list for the elections that will renew it next Sunday. In 2019, this coalition - now made up of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), EH Bildu, BNG and Aramés - won three seats. We spoke with her about the main challenges facing Europe and the worrying rise of the extreme right.