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Spain: Laws to protect those who break the law

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PASCUAL SERRANO
The paradox of some supposedly progressive measures by the Spanish government is that they are designed to guarantee rights even if you have previously, personally, broken the law. Let me explain. If a vulnerable family approaches social services or registers on public waiting lists for social housing, it would take years to obtain it, and they would probably never be offered it. Their constitutional right to housing would not be fulfilled.

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Let's look at how China is tackling some of the problems we have here.

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PASCUAL SERRANO
The prevailing view among the Spanish population, undoubtedly influenced by the monotonous discourse of the media and political leaders, is that China is an undesirable dictatorship from which we should take no note or example. However, I believe it can be a valuable exercise in humility and learning to observe how they address issues that remain a serious problem here.

I'm going to review some current issues that are generating controversy in our country, for which we need solutions, and then we'll see how they are being dealt with in China.

Archived Asia U.S.

Six points for navigating the turmoil in Iran

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VIJAY PRASHAD

Iran is in chaos. Protests of varying scales have erupted across the country, with escalating violence leading to the deaths of both demonstrators and police officers. What began as work stoppages and protests against inflation has coalesced around a range of discontented groups, including women and young people frustrated by a system unable to provide for their basic needs. Iran has been subjected to a prolonged economic siege and has been directly attacked by Israel and the United States, not only within its borders but also throughout West Asia (including its diplomatic enclaves in Syria). This economic warfare waged by the United States has created the conditions for this unrest, but the unrest itself is not directed at Washington, but rather at the government in Tehran.

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Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?

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VIJAY PRASHAD
Since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has tried to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, the selection of a replacement president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing multiple sanctions, sabotaging the electrical grid, sending mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders.

If you can think of any method to overthrow a government, chances are the United States has tried it against Venezuela.

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China: one plan away from the top

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XULIO RIOS
During the 14th Five-Year Plan, which is now coming to an end, China has continued to advance, even weathering the trade and technology war with some ease, demonstrating that it can no longer be easily intimidated (rare earths have become its main bargaining chip with Washington). Chinese manufacturing output accounts for more than 35% of the world's total, and it is catching up with the US in every field and is already a world leader in some. China is approaching the top.

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Xi Jinping announces carbon emissions cuts at the same UN summit where Trump denies global warming

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PASCUAL SERRANO
For decades, we've been told that in the West, in democratic and capitalist countries, awareness was growing about the need to reduce carbon emissions in order to save the planet and that measures were being taken. At the same time, we were told that China and its communist system were the main emitter of gases and that its authorities were not taking action to correct them.

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Gaza and the isolation of Israel

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EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On September 16, the Israeli army, following instructions from Benjamin Netanyahu, launched a ground offensive, duly supported by air force, against Gaza City, one of the last Palestinian strongholds in the Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people were still living that day. They have been advised to leave the area and head south.

The Strip's population, currently around 2,3 million, lives concentrated in certain southern areas largely designated by the Israeli army as safe, although dozens of civilians die there every day, even when they go to seek the scarce food that Israel authorizes and distributes to the population through a US company closely linked to Israel.

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The creation of a fake news verification entity in Moscow has outraged the West.

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PASCUAL SERRANO
The avalanche of fake news, hoaxes, and falsehoods dominating the media and social media landscape has triggered the launch of so-called fact-checking agencies. Since most are located in Western countries, their work seems focused on exposing lies beyond the United States and Europe, rather than monitoring the major Western media outlets and their governments, which are the main sources of information.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB

The sinicization of Marxism

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XULIO RIOS
Modern China has undergone a series of transformations since the CCP took power more than 75 years ago. Many of these changes are radical, even more so considering that they have been implemented in a short period of time and under the leadership of the same ruling party. This situation makes it difficult to categorize the policies established by the CCP into a classical theoretical economic model.

Beyond the process of modernization and the rise of the private sector, China maintains a dominant public sector in several sectors of its economy. It is evident that the State retains essential elements of a socialist model, but has gradually incorporated some elements of the free market to boost its economy and integrate it into the international arena. It is difficult to imagine China returning to the communist system pioneered during the times of the revolution.

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Zübeyir Aydar: "The Kurds will not be left without an organization to represent them."

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Zübeyir Aydar is a Kurdish lawyer and politician who serves on the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK). He has been one of the most important leaders of the ethnic nationalist movement since the capture of Abdullah Reber Apo Öcallan by Turkish security forces in 1999. We spoke with him about the demise of his movement's most important organization: the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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Palestine will continue to be the problem

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SAWSAN MADINA
Suppose the United States and Israel, along with their complicit Western allies, manage to bomb Iran into submission, change its regime, and install their own puppet regime. So what? Will this bring security to Israel and peace to the Middle East? Of course not. Palestine will remain the problem.

Israel may achieve hegemony and, together with the United States, seize the region's resources, but as long as Palestinians are denied human rights, it will be surrounded by 500 million people rebelling against the injustice of it all.

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Sevim Dagdelen: The EU and NATO's massive rearmament plans have nothing to do with defense

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PASCUAL SERRANO
Sevim Dagdelen, a former German Bundestag member and spokesperson for international affairs for the parliamentary group of Sahra Wagenkecht's party (BSW), has been in Spain (Madrid and Valencia) presenting her book "NATO: A Reckoning with the Alliance of Values," published in Spain earlier this year. Previously, she was the leader of the Left Party's Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, and Economic Committees.