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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.

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.

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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The European Union will fund the anti-communist radio station launched by the US during the Cold War.

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The European Union agreed on May 20 to provide emergency funding to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the U.S. government ended its subsidies to the network.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said EU foreign ministers had agreed on a €5,5 million funding package to "support the vital work of Radio Free Europe."

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The US, an empire in decline

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The international community is bewildered by the seemingly confusing decisions of Donald Trump and his team, but in my opinion, there is a certain consistency in all of them: the recognition of the United States' failure as a dominant global power and the retreat from its leadership.

The issue of tariffs is probably the most telling. Three decades ago, the United States felt like the victorious economic power in a globalized world. It believed its global production, sales, and distribution capacity was superior to that of other countries and that its market dominance was absolute.

Asia U.S. Principal1

Expulsion is getting closer

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu confirms the division of the Gaza Strip and the creation of a new corridor called the Morag Corridor, which will cross the Strip just above the city of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt. In this way, Israel will have divided the Strip into three sectors. The first, from north to south, will reach the Netzarim Corridor. The second will be between this corridor and the Morag Corridor, and the third will be between this corridor and the Philadelphia Corridor, which separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

Pressure on the Palestinians continues to grow, and their expulsion from Gaza depends on a decision by Donald Trump. What the prime minister is doing now is "organizing" the Strip so that the deportation can be carried out quickly.

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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 U.S. USA/Europe Europe Principal2

A “new reactionary international”: how Elon Musk is spreading his fascist ideals in Europe

4 min read MARIUS THIRION ROSZYK

MARIUS THIRION ROSZYK
If Donald Trump began his second term as President of the United States on January 20, he owes it in part to his new friend Elon Musk. With little rancor, the American billionaire has offered the new Ministry of “Government Efficiency” to the man who, in 2022, considered him “too old to be President of anything, let alone the United States of America.”

It is worth remembering that Musk used his considerable influence to help the Republican candidate win, occupying the public space like never before.

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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.

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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.

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.

U.S. USA/Europe Principal4

Trump, Gorbachev and the fatal parallels

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
In 2025, when convicted US President Donald Trump takes office, it will be 40 years since Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader. There are some interesting parallels between the situations faced by both leaders.

Although the differences between the USSR in the 1980s and the current state of the US are not minor, there are some notable similarities. If perestroika emerged to lift the USSR out of Brezhnev’s stagnation, Trump’s policies are similarly aimed at “making America great again,” admitting a certain paralysis.