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Trump's America: ecstasy or agony?

7 min read JOSEPH CAMILLERI

JOSEPH CAMILLERI
Trump's electoral victory is not the momentous or unexpected event that many have made it out to be. It is, however, an unmistakable sign of a society in slow decline in which frustration, anger and bewilderment are reaching epidemic proportions.

The inevitable question is: how did this man manage to be re-elected President of the United States?

This is, after all, a man who was twice impeached as president, who rejected the outcome of the previous election. He is known to have repeatedly lied to the electorate before, during and since his first presidential term. This is a man whose business dealings have long been under a cloud, and who is widely accused of deceit, abuse of power and sexual misconduct.

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Trump, Europe and the Middle East

5 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The big puzzle is how far Trump will go with the Gaza Strip. Israel clearly wants to return to colonisation. To facilitate this, it has been keeping the bulk of its population, 2,3 million Palestinians, moving around for a year, not allowing them to stay anywhere in safety. The apparent intention is to drive them back to Egypt. To do this, he needs the green light from the White House, something Joe Biden has not been willing to grant. The question is whether Trump will allow it.

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Nasrallah and the rehabilitation of Netanyahu

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The first poll since the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut has projected Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity to rise. After nearly a year of lackluster poll results and strong public hostility, the Israeli prime minister is once again moving freely and confidently, and it is difficult to know how far he is prepared to go.

Netanyahu has allowed himself to leave the Gaza Strip open pending what happens at the US polls in November. Depending on who enters the White House, it will be much clearer whether Israel can expel all or part of the Palestinian population, 2,3 million people, who since October 7, 2023 have been migrating relentlessly from one place to another in the Strip, forced by American bombs from Israeli fighter planes that pursue them everywhere.

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Philadelphia Corridor, Netanyahu's last obstacle to ending the war

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The Philadelphia Corridor is a narrow belt 100 meters wide and 14 kilometers long that runs parallel to and along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The name Philadelphia (without the letter a at the end) was chosen at random by the Israeli army, while the Palestinians and Egyptians call it the Saladin Corridor.

In recent months, this has become very important, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that any ceasefire agreement with Hamas include the permanence of Israeli troops in that axis. In contrast, the Islamist organisation's position is that any agreement should include the complete withdrawal of soldiers from the entire Gaza Strip, including the Philadelphia corridor.

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The silencing

4 min read Javier García 0 comments

JAVIER GARCIA
While the conflict in Ukraine escalates dangerously and Israel continues to bomb Gaza and prepare - with the help of the United States - a major war in the Middle East with an eye on Lebanon, Iran, Yemen or Syria, silence any story that falls outside the narrative official is the parallel strategy.

In the throes of this calamitous world order propped up by wars and censorship, supporting independent journalism has become more urgent than ever. At least if we are not willing to survive with the only voice of Big Brother howling in the desert. Either we stand up to this horrible drift or the silence will end up devouring us.

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Trumpism and anti-Trumpism are false decoy revolutions

9 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE 0 comments

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
Right-wingers dissatisfied with the American political status quo have been pushed to support a politician who embodies that status quo as much as any other president, mistakenly thinking that they are fighting a battle against the establishment in doing so. And this is reflected on the other side of the imagined partisan divide in American politics, with people making entire identities out of disdain for Donald Trump and acting as if this makes them brave revolutionaries.

As Gore Vidal once said:
“It doesn’t really matter whether the president is a Republican or a Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make people believe that it has had something to do with electing presidents for 200 years, when it has had absolutely no say in the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. A very small group controls almost everything.”

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The war between the United States and China is commercial and Olympic

4 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
On August 7, the Reuters agency uncovered a serious complaint that has gone largely unnoticed in the Western media. The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) allowed several athletes it had discovered between 2011 and 2014 violating anti-doping rules to continue competing then without being sanctioned.

The excuse given by the US authorities is that it was part of a plan for them to act covertly and continue competing without being prosecuted in exchange for information about other offenders. USADA maintains that the tactic is necessary and permitted, and wants to continue using it.

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US athletes were allowed to cheat, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency

2 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said this week in a statement that its American counterpart, USADA, has allowed doping among the athletes it supervises for years. Its management team has also admitted that it was aware of these events since 2021.

The North American organization justified its actions before WADA by assuring that it was going to use the cheating athletes to obtain incriminating evidence against the rest of the people involved in these acts.

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The Israeli story of killing Hamas leaders seeking a ceasefire

5 min read MEHDI HASAN 0 comments

MEHDI HASAN
“Israeli leaders killed three birds with one stone,” wrote Reuven Pedatzur, a military affairs analyst for the Israeli daily Haaretz. “They killed the man who had the power to strike a deal with Israel; they took revenge on someone who had caused quite a few Israeli casualties; and they signaled to Hamas that communications with it will only be carried out through military force.”

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Approaching the abyss of war

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
I don't know if we are aware, but, with the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the world is in the most warlike moment since the Second World War. It is not my statement, it is the annual study on global peace by the Institute for Economics and Peace. According to their analysis, the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine were the main drivers of the global decline in terms of peace, as battle deaths reached 162.000 in 2023, this is the second highest figure in the last 30 years, and the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza accounted for almost three-quarters of the deaths.

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Gaza: negotiations and deterrence

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
One issue Netanyahu is considering is the US elections in November. The prime minister hopes that by the end of the year the superpower will turn around and that Donald Trump will be president. If this happens, it is very likely that Trump will free Netanyahu's hands to expel all or most of the Palestinians from Gaza.

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Another Philippine War?

11 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Today, leaving aside Taiwan, the deterioration of the relationship between Beijing and Manila represents the main focus of tension in the South China Sea.

During former President Rodrigo Duterte's six-year term, the situation remained relatively stable and no major disputes occurred. However, since Marcos Jr. came to power in June 2022, disputes have frequently arisen, from Ren'ai Jiao to Huangyan Dao.