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FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.
JAYRO SANCHEZ
Former US President George HW Bush and the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, organized their first face-to-face meeting in early December 1989. The meeting was held in one of the cabins of the cruise liner Máxim Gorki, anchored near the port of the Maltese town of Marsaxlokk due to the strong storms that raged the waters of the central Mediterranean during those days.
PASCUAL SERRANO
Two years after the start of the Ukrainian war, we will hear all kinds of versions about who is winning the war. Some will say that Ukraine is winning because Russia has not fulfilled its dream of taking kyiv in a few weeks, as it intended at the beginning. Others will say that it is Russia that, little by little, is triumphing because Western sanctions have proven useless, military support from the United States is running out and the advances on the front in recent months are from the Russian army in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. that showed itself to be a failure. But I will be the one to tell you who is really winning the war: the arms industry.
JAYRO SANCHEZ
Mario Amorós is a Spanish journalist and historian specialized in the history of Chile. He has written numerous works about this country, including internationally renowned biographies on Salvador Allende, Miguel Enríquez, Augusto Pinochet, Pablo Neruda and Víctor Jara. The first of them has been republished by Captain Swing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état.
EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The first step for Jewish repopulation is to completely or partially empty the Strip of the Palestinian population, something that the army is already doing following the instructions of political leaders. The military has pushed more than half of the population towards the border with Egypt, and there are currently close to a million and a half people there waiting for what is decided to be done with them.
At the moment, Egypt does not open the border, but if necessary, if the Israeli army continues to push, deportation could be inevitable. It may not affect the entire population of Gaza, but it will affect a good part of it.
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PASCUAL SERRANO
According to calculations by the think tank Common Wealth, the social cost of carbon emissions from the US and UK armies is approximately $111.000 billion. Money that is stolen from the finances of the nations most threatened by the climate crisis.
CRAIG MURRAY
That the ICJ has not affirmed Israel's right to self-defense is perhaps the most important point of this provisional resolution. He is the dog that didn't bark. The argument that all Western leaders have been using has been rejected by the court. The ICJ did not repeat that an occupying power has no right to self-defense. It was not necessary. He simply ignored Israel's misleading claim.
PASCUAL SERRANO
The Oxfam organization has just published a report on inequality in the world, “Inequality SA”, which has the subtitle “A huge concentration of corporate and monopolistic power is exacerbating inequality in the global economy.” A work that brings a lot of light in these days when the media is dedicated to reporting on the World Economic Forum or Davos Forum.
RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Historically, annihilating purposes are denied and hidden by their protagonists. The Young Turks, or the Nazis, for example, left hardly any declarative and printed evidence of their intentions against Armenians and Jews. Discretion prevailed.
The Israeli authorities have openly proclaimed these intentions with astonishing eloquence. Bathed in a self-justifying national ideology of colonialism and supremacism with roots that link religion and ethnicity, and that routinely dehumanizes Palestinians, Israeli society naturally consumes, assumes and projects the message.
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What can be expected from Lai Ching-te as president is an intensification of the projections recorded in the last two terms of the PDP with Tsai Ing-wen at the helm. That is, a firm commitment to political rapprochement with the United States, also economically, defensively and strategically. Lai's Taiwan reaffirms its validity and importance as a pivotal point for the US in Asia.
CRAIG MURRAY
The people who really didn't want to be there were the judges, because in fact it is the judges and the Court itself that are being judged. The fact of genocide is incontrovertible and has been clearly stated. But several of the judges are desperate to find a way to please the United States and Israel and avoid rebutting the current Zionist narrative, the adoption of which is necessary to keep the elite's feet comfortably under the table.
PASCUAL SERRANO
If there is any country that boasts of defending human rights around the world, it is the United States. In the name of these rights, it imposes sanctions on countries, freezes funds from other governments abroad, orders the arrest of world leaders and even their relatives, and intervenes militarily anywhere in the world.
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day this December, let's take a look at that country that takes on the role of global watchdog.
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