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A country that rises

13 min read FREDERIC LORDON

FREDERIC LORDON
Politics, in its emergency power, has taken over the country. A cloud of spontaneous initiatives has broken out everywhere, walkouts without warning, roadblocks, riots breaking out or just wild demonstrations, student assemblies on every corner, the energy of youth at Concorde, in the streets. Everyone is on edge and impatient in their legs, but not because of the nonsense that fascinates the Parisian thimble. The thimble is like the head of the pin, the journalists glued to Macron and Borne, as ignorant as each other of what is really happening: the boil.

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

11 min read Jayro sanchez

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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The deafening silence of the intellectuals

17 min read BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS

BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS
Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, values or truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any of these “domains of the spirit,” as they used to be called. But intellectuals should not refrain from denouncing what they consider to be destructive of culture, values and truth, especially when such destruction is intended to be carried out in the name of these “domains of the spirit.”

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Dagdelen: the German government is incapable of prioritizing the interest of its population over its vassal relations with the US

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Sevim Dagdelen, the daughter of Kurdish immigrants in Germany, is the spokesperson for International Relations for the Die Linke parliamentary group, the main left-wing political force currently in the country. Videos of her interventions in the Bundestag on the war in Ukraine have gone viral on the internet.

We interviewed her exclusively to talk about the German participation in the conflict and the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, vital for the supply of Russian energy to the main European power. Dagdelen considers that the leaks after the meeting between Scholz and Biden, about the alleged authorship of a pro-Ukrainian group, contradict all previous reports provided to Parliament by the German government, according to which only state agents can be the perpetrators of an operation of this magnitude. .

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Spain and China: reality and myth

8 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Next March 9 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and China. From that already distant 1973 to today, a very important evolution of exchanges is verifiable, favored, among other things, by the mutual perception of being protagonists of parallel transitions that began almost in unison in both countries: in the second half of the XNUMXs, After the death of Franco, Spain began its "transition", and the same thing happened in China after the death of Mao, beginning the deployment of denguismo. In both cases it was something similar: a change of regime without a change of system. In addition, this common contemporary trajectory reached the common imagination of tragic episodes such as the respective civil wars, with unequal outcomes.

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Chomsky: a stronger NATO is the last thing we need

17 min read CJ POLYCHRONIOU

CJ POLYCHRONIOU
Noam Chomsky, one of the world's most cited academics and regarded by millions as an international intellectual treasure, remains prodigiously lucid at 95. In this interview - published in collaboration with Truthout - the eminent professor flatly rejects the idea that a stronger NATO is needed instead of a negotiated solution to the Ukraine conflict and warns about the current strategy of "much worse" and the ever-increasing risk of escalation towards nuclear war.

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The Ukrainian tragedy

8 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
One of the problems with the war in Ukraine is that we are not facing one war, but several. There is a reactionary war of Russia against Ukraine, open since the invasion of February 2022. There are elements of civil war between Ukrainians since the spring of 2014, caused by the non-recognition of the valuable internal diversity of Ukrainians in their different regions, without which the Russian invasion would have been very difficult, if not impossible. There is a war of hegemonism between NATO and Russia, without which the two previous ones surely would not have come to fruition, sponsored by the United States with its expansionist pressure towards the East since the false closing of the cold war thirty years ago. And there is a warming up of a great global war with China to neutralize its rise as leader of a non-Western pole in the world and of which the war in Ukraine is the prolegomenon.

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Seymour Hersh, Nord Stream and the silence of Europe

6 min read MIGUEL MOLLEDA

MIGUEL MOLLEDA
On September 29, 2022, the Swedish coast guard released disturbing images of bubbling, frothy waters gushing over the surface of the Baltic Sea. They were effervescences from a huge gas leak under the cold northern currents, emerging to the sea surface. The Russian Nord Stream pipelines supplying cheap gas to Europe had just been dynamited and disabled. From that moment on, the major American media began a tiresome exercise in journalistic tightrope walking with one main mantra: “it is a mystery”.

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Oskar Lafontaine: Germany must recognize that it has different interests than the US

14 min read FLORIAN ROTZER

FLORIAN ROTZER
Berlin
The former SPD chairman, chancellor candidate, and German finance minister was one of the first to sign the "Manifesto for Peace," which urges the federal government to enter into negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to establish a ceasefire and to More than 600.000 people in Germany have signed so far. In this interview, Oskar Lafontaine speaks out in favor of ending arms deliveries and starting serious efforts in peace negotiations, advocating that France and Germany, in particular, develop an independent European security policy and break with the war policy of the United States.

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Ukraine must learn from Afghanistan and the wars by US delegation

6 min read JEFFREY D SACHS

JEFFREY D SACHS
The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world falls further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to just 90 seconds to midnight.

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The curtain rises: the elites are naked

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The erosion of judicial independence and press freedom, often noted by Hungarian and foreign observers in recent years, has turned Viktor Orbán into a nationalist and populist leader increasingly removed from liberal democracy. It is not an exceptional case that the Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 has opted for a head-on clash with the liberal idea of Europe that has dominated until now, nor that from Budapest he promotes his ideas throughout the West, his main ally being the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Can Europe survive this moment?

6 min read BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS

BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS
A new-old ghost hangs over Europe: war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by wars during the last 100 years (not to go any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted by Europeans on peoples subjected to colonialism) is headed for a new war.
Nearly 80 years after World War II, the most violent conflict yet, which killed between 70 and 85 million people, the coming war may be even deadlier. All previous conflicts began apparently without a compelling reason and were supposed to last for a short time.