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How confusion and lies fuel a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine

13 min read MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES

MEDEA BENJAMIN AND NICOLAS JS DAVIES
No party in this conflict has come forward with their own people to honestly explain what they are fighting for, what they really hope to achieve, and how they plan to achieve it. All parties claim to be fighting for noble causes and insist that it is the other party that refuses to negotiate a peaceful resolution. Everyone is manipulating and lying, and the complacent media (from all sides) proclaim their lies.

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Inflating the threat balloon

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Will it be a spy balloon or not? Maybe with time it will be known. China says it entered US airspace accidentally and due to force majeure, which is for civil and scientific purposes. The Pentagon acknowledged that it did not pose a significant risk in terms of intelligence, but denied the major one.

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The dangerous game of red lines in Ukraine

9 min read BRANKO MARCETIC

BRANKO MARCETIC
When the United States becomes militarily involved in a conflict, it often finds it difficult to get out, let alone avoid deep entanglements that far exceed the lines it had drawn at the outset of the intervention.
It happened in Vietnam, when American military advisers helping the South Vietnamese fight the Viet Cong eventually became American soldiers fighting an American war. It happened in Afghanistan, when an initial invasion to capture al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban turned into a nearly two-decade nation-building project. And it could be happening right now in Ukraine.

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The role of the US in the origin of the drama of Afghan women

3 min read DAVID BOLLERO

DAVID BOLLERO
The official story presents the US as the power that tried to liberate the Afghan people; however, the balance of these 20 years shows a clear failure. The question that arises is whether at some point the Afghan people were really better off thanks to the US and, more specifically, women, who is the group on which they wanted to focus.

The answer to this question is offered to us by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad in The Withdrawal, a book that compiles many of the conversations that the American philosopher and the Indian historian and journalist have had for more than three decades.

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The two Taiwan elections

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Taiwan will hold local elections on November 26. The combination of an increase in continental pressure on several fronts and the hypothetical exaggeration of the threat by the US could lead to the sentiment of the Taiwanese that the possibility of a conflict is not remote but real, contrary to what they imagined until now.

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The information of the world upside down

5 min read Javier García 0 comments

The man eats the grass
the donkey the candies
The granddaughter sends the grandfather
And the jack to the king of clubs.

JAVIER GARCIA
We live in the upside down world that Violeta Parra sang about and that Eduardo Galeano also described. What is new is that now that planet upside down is told to you daily by the big media and broadcast on television.

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The war in Ukraine and global disinformation

8 min read MIGUEL MOLLEDA

MIGUEL MOLLEDA
International journalism should be warned about what happened with the Iraq war in 2004. The lies and manipulation of the news by the United States and its "coalition of volunteers", including Spain, reached levels unknown since the Vietnam war in the 60s of the last century.

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The dangerous unipolar drift

4 min read Javier García

JAVIER GARCIA
We are witnessing a terrifying world drift. The non-acceptance by the United States of its decline as a global hegemonic power is stressing the planet to unimaginable extremes. The so-called “Thucydides trap”, which describes the tendency for a hegemonic power to go to war when threatened by an emerging one, is fully unfolding before our eyes with all its devastating consequences. The hegemon, who considers himself threatened, displays his most sinister face both internally and externally: censorship, suffocating manipulation of media messages, single discourse, maximum use of fear as a political weapon.