The new international media for a changing world – The new international media for a changing world
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.
Read moreXULIO RIOS
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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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).
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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But was Iran's policy of containment a mistake? Yes, it probably was, since if Tehran had the bomb, it seems very unlikely that Netanyahu would have entered Iran in such a manner, with such a vast and spectacular attack. He would have thought twice before bombing Iran with the brazenness he did this June. Iran's nuclear weapons would certainly have deterred Israel.
Tehran is a victim, and its refusal to possess nuclear weapons reflects the suffering that has characterized Shiites since the origins of Islam. Now it may be too late to correct course, as the Iranians had plenty of time—no less than eight years—to build the bomb, but they failed to do so, and now they simply have to resist the onslaught of Israel, and perhaps the United States.
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VIJAY PRASHAD
I've written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report is based on four points:
1. The number of people suffering from hunger is higher now than last year.
2. The amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year.
3. There is enough food to feed the entire world's population, and more.
4. How do we explain why there are people who suffer from hunger?
