Asia
Asia Principal3 

The world has failed to stop Israel. Now we have only two options: leave or die.

6 min read Shahad Ali 0 comments

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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Asia U.S. Europe Principal4 

The business of genocide: there are no limits to capitalism when it comes to making money

5 min read JUAN TORRES 0 comments

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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Still from the film 'City of Life and Death', which recounts the Nanjing Massacre.
Asia China Europe Principal2 

China in World War II: A Necessary Reassessment

7 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO 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.

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Archived Asia China 

The sinicization of Marxism

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

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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Archived Asia 

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

6 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

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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Archived Asia U.S. 

Palestine will continue to be the problem

6 min read SAWSAN MADINA 0 comments

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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Asia U.S. Principal2 

Israel operates in Iran on a grand scale

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
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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Africa America Asia Principal4 

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people are dying of hunger.

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

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?

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Asia China Latin America Principal2 

The Belt and Road Initiative diversifies the paths of cooperation with CELAC

5 min read Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno 0 comments

Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno
During the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, held on May 13, 2025, in Beijing, Latin American governments articulated a new vision for engagement with China. The future of the BRI in the region will depend not only on Chinese financing and technical expertise, but also on the capacity of Latin American countries to design inclusive development strategies and build effective institutional frameworks. The challenge now is to move from diplomatic declarations to transformative action, and turn the partnership into shared prosperity.

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Asia Principal2 

Israel promotes sectarianism and advocates for the partition of Syria

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the fall of al-Assad in December, a kind of floodgates were opened, which Israel is exploiting with the various minorities—Druze, Kurds, and even Alawites—fomenting sectarianism and nationalism among these groups in order to achieve the partition of Syria, a goal acknowledged by Minister Smotrich.

Behind these movements lies the struggle between Netanyahu and Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan for regional hegemony. Both leaders desire control over Syria, but while the latter seeks the continuation of the so-called political Islam that Sharaa advocates in a united Syria, the former wants a weak, divided, and unstructured Syria that is truly loyal to the Zionist state.

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Asia China USA/Europe Spain Europe Principal2 

Side…. which side?

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The barrage of criticism surrounding Pedro Sánchez's recent trip to China has been surprising. They say it's not "our side," that "there's more to Asia" than China (although the mission also included Vietnam), that the timing couldn't have been worse... However, the trip was a complete success, both in terms of the current situation and the expectations it met, judging by the official assessment provided by Moncloa.

And which side are we on? That of Mr. "Neckcutter," who assigns unavoidable duties to Minister Cuerpo? Or that of Robert Palladino, chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Hungary, who has warned the Hungarian government to refrain from attracting Chinese investment?

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