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Two sessions 2025: A China focused on its roadmap

16 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
China will continue to focus on managing its economy and strengthening its capabilities in all areas to achieve the desired high-quality development, taking a long-term view of this endeavour, with a view to 2035. At the international level, the commitment to multilateralism will strengthen the rapprochement not only with the Global South, but also opens up expectations of the involvement of other actors interested in a greater balance of power in interstate relations, capable of facing the profound global challenges that the current Trump administration addresses with total disdain.

Asia USA/Europe Principal4

Bibi Netanyahu's juggling act

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu knows that as long as the war is not over, there will be an important pretext to justify its continuation and the non-calling of elections. He repeatedly declares that the circumstances are not yet in place to proclaim the “total victory” that he promised the Israelis more than a year ago and which includes the complete disappearance of Hamas.

He says that the day after the war ends, Hamas should be absent from the Strip not only as a militia but also as a political entity. However, today the Islamic Resistance Movement maintains its influence in all territorial sectors of the Strip that the Israeli army has abandoned, and there is no indication that this situation will change soon.

Asia U.S. USA/Europe Principal1

The Gaza 'war' was a lie, just like the ceasefire. Trump just told you so

14 min read JONATHAN COOK

JONATHAN COOK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House this week broke the mask of 16 months of gaslighting by Western leaders and the entire Western establishment media. US President Donald Trump has finally stopped sugar-coating Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. Trump has dropped Washington's sugar-coating of Israel's 15-month-long genocidal destruction of Gaza. It was always about ethnic cleansing.

It was always, he told us, a massacre made in the USA. In his words, Washington will now “take over” Gaza and develop it. And the aim of the massacre was always ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, killed by Israel with US-supplied bombs. Gaza, meanwhile, would become the “Riviera of the Middle East”, with the “people of the world” – he meant rich whites like himself – living in luxury beachfront estates instead.

America Asia U.S. Principal3

The farce of the ceasefire

9 min read CHRIS HEDGES

CHRIS HEDGES
For decades, Israel has been playing tricks. It signs an agreement with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants – in this case, the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza – but Israel routinely fails to implement the subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. In the end, it provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed attacks to get them to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation, and abrogates the ceasefire agreement to reignite the killing.

If this latest three-phase ceasefire agreement is ratified - and there is no certainty that it will be by Israel - it will, I hope, be little more than a pause in the bombing of the presidential inauguration. Israel has no intention of stopping its merry-go-round of death.

America Asia U.S. Principal2

Bibi and Trump beyond the agreement with Hamas

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The relationship between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is truly peculiar. One is 78 years old and the other 75. One has amassed a huge fortune while the other is reluctantly content with a more modest fortune. One is beginning his second term as president of the most powerful country in the world and the other is approaching the end of his political career with great power but licking his wounds from the war in Gaza.

Africa America Asia China Latin America Principal9

Aníbal Garzón: The Western media strategy against the BRICS is based on censorship and contempt

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.

Asia U.S. Principal4

How the US and Israel destroyed Syria and called it peace

9 min read JEFFREY D SACHS

JEFFREY D SACHS
The long history of Israel’s campaign to overthrow the Syrian government is not well known, but the documentary record is clear. Israel’s war on Syria began with American and Israeli neoconservatives in 1996, who designed a “clean break” Middle East strategy for Netanyahu when he came to power.

The core of the “clean break” strategy required Israel (and the United States) to reject the idea of “land for peace,” according to which Israel would withdraw from occupied Palestinian lands in exchange for peace. Instead, Israel would retain the occupied Palestinian lands, rule over the Palestinian people in an apartheid state, ethnically cleanse the state step by step, and impose so-called “peace for peace” by overthrowing neighboring governments that resisted Israel’s territorial claims.

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Syria, political Islam will not have a second chance

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the Greater Syria Liberation Organization in Damascus, speculation is open about the future of the country, which has been completely devastated by the international boycott, because Baathism, a socialist and pan-Arab ideology, never had the opportunity to exercise power, neither before 2011 nor after 2011, after the so-called Arab Spring.

The Baath's attempts have been left behind, thwarted time and again by Israeli-Western interference, which went so far as to punish Syria with terrible and undeserved sanctions that made any undertaking impossible, even before 2011. This continued situation has led to a supreme disaster, and the rapid advance of the rebels shows to what extent this has been the case.

Asia USA/Europe Principal7

When Al Qaeda jihadists are good

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Today, a jihadist group from Al Qaeda has just violently seized power in a country that shares the Mediterranean coast with us, is two hours by plane from the EU and borders NATO. It does not seem like good news, but they are not going to present this Syrian splinter group of Al Qaeda or its leader Al Jawlani to us like this.

The reason that justifies this military coup in the eyes of the West is that the overthrown government of Al Assad was a partner of Russia, Lebanon and Iran, so Islamic terrorists are now seen in a different light in the West. It is time to launch an appropriate campaign to whitewash them.

America Asia U.S. USA/Europe Principal10

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.