The new international media for a changing world – The new international media for a changing world
JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.
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.
PASCUAL SERRANO
The Israeli government has hired a conservative startup, Clock Tower X LLC, to create multimedia content that skews social media and AI algorithms in its favor. This was revealed by the Responsible Statecraft website of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to military-restraint foreign policy with close ties to the business world.
The initial contract is for $6 million, with the goal of placing 80% of Clock Tower's content on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast media, with a minimum target of 50 million views per month.
PASCUAL SERRANO
First, journalists held the power of communication, then the media (journalists held the power of the medium in which they reported), then the owners of communication companies (the owner of the printing press). Then came the internet, and social media, which are the means of reaching citizens and the mediators between them and the media, took over (as MacLuhan said, "the medium is the message"). And now it's the algorithm; it's the algorithm that decides what you'll see on social media, which dictates what you'll see in the media.
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.
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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VIJAY PRASHAD AND ATUL CHANDRA
Following the resignation of Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Oli amid massive protests driven by the country's youth, various narratives have circulated that simplify and distort the complexities and realities on the ground in Nepal that are at the root of this crisis.
If your house is not clean, ants will enter through the door and attract snakes.
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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.
SHAHAD ALI
As the Israeli army launches the first phase of its latest military operation in Gaza City—aiming to completely occupy the area and displace its approximately one million inhabitants southward—the city has descended into an endless hell. Night after night, relentless and terrifying explosions rob us of sleep. Entire neighborhoods are being invaded and demolished, forcing families to flee to an uncertain fate, while bloody massacres have become a grim part of daily life.
For a moment, these cruel scenes remind us of the first months of the war, when Israeli forces, for the first time, forced the city's residents to flee south under the threat of a ground invasion. The sky then looked the same as it does now: gray and covered with thick smoke, signaling imminent danger. People's faces reflected the same unbearable anxiety and fear, only now the concern is more acute: we fear that this time we will be forced to leave Gaza City forever, never to be allowed to return.
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JUAN TORRES LÓPEZ
I'm sure many of the people who read my articles have heard about the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published last June.
However, I want to return to activity after the summer break, echoing it for three important reasons. First, because we must continue to denounce and combat what I believe is a true crime against humanity, committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and with the complicity of the great powers that dominate the world.
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In China, the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the global victory over fascism reminds us of the enormous sacrifice endured by this country in its long struggle against the Japanese invader. The Japanese invasion of the 30s and 40s, marked by atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre (1937), subjected China to unimaginable cruelty.
nable. According to the most recent estimates, military and civilian casualties exceeded 35 million people in a battle that lasted 14 years. More than any other country involved in the conflict. This suffering added considerable difficulties to the reconstruction work promoted by the new power established in 1949.
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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