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The presidents of Venezuela and Guyana, Nicolás Maduro and Irfaan Ali, during their meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Celac silenced the drums of war that the US wanted to sound between Guyana and Venezuela

9 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

KAREN MENDEZ
Peace won, at least for now, the commitment to dialogue won, Latin America and the Caribbean won, our people won, and today they can sleep in peace and hug their families without the fear of being overwhelmed by a war that they tried to impose. from outside.

The meeting served so that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean could learn more closely and in detail about Venezuela's position, so distorted and demonized by media corporations and spokespersons for hostile governments.

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Death and destruction in Gaza

7 min read JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER 0 comments

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
I don't think anything I say about what's happening in Gaza is going to affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want it on the record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.

What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, a leading Israel lobby organisation, puts it: “The scope of the humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties that is taking place is almost unfathomable.”

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When “internationalism” becomes a dirty word

5 min read DANIEL LARISON

DANIEL LARISON
As long as the world's leading power refuses to respect the limits of international law, it will always be a destabilizing force in the world and will contribute to future conflicts. A principled, internationalist approach to the world requires that the United States not only respect the laws it expects others to respect, but also hold itself and its customers to the highest standards. Any attempt to establish exceptions or create loopholes for the US and US-aligned states will serve to undermine international law and encourage further violations.

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The debatable benevolence of the US in the Middle East

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Washington's attitude in recent weeks has consisted of relentlessly feeding Israeli arsenals with bombs of all kinds, knowing the terrible humanitarian cost that the massive destruction has had for more than a million civilians.

The image of a benevolent power that the United States cultivates has been shattered, to the point that protests against President Joe Biden's administration in North American cities have become a regular, daily occurrence. The unrest has spread among thousands of officials in the White House, Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon. In some cases, the unrest has transpired through letters, signed or not, and even with a loud resignation.

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Guyana, the spearhead of the US to expand militarily in Latin America

10 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

KAREN MENDEZ
The United States intends to use a historic territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo to promote an armed conflict in Latin America, justify military expansion in the region and thus take control of the continent's immense wealth, as confessed by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson.

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Joe Biden and Chinese culture

4 min read JOHN HOPKINS 0 comments

JOHN HOPKINS
Joe Biden's recent comment that Xi Jinping is a dictator and his linking this assessment to the fact that China's system of government is different from that of the United States is revealing. It seems a manifestation of the Eurocentric thinking that has dominated the world in the last 200 years and the unwillingness to recognize cultures outside the Western sphere. This practice not only denies the validity of other people's experiences, but also the opportunities to learn and seek solutions to the problems we face.

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Biden–Xi: an anti-cyclonic summit

7 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.

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Biden maintains his unconditional support for Israel just one year before the elections

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With less than a year left until the November 2024 US elections, President Joe Biden insists on maintaining his unconditional support for Israel in Israel's war against the entire Gaza Strip, and not just against Hamas, an attitude which could cost the Democratic Party a good handful of votes, especially among young people.

An important sector of Biden voters, and not only young people, view with disgust the images that television broadcasts daily with Palestinian women and children injured or killed by the bombs that the United States sends to Israel through an airlift that works with the accuracy of a Swiss watch twenty-four hours a day.

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Much to talk about, little to agree

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
A Biden-Xi summit taking advantage of the APEC framework can help to somewhat put the antagonism on track, but not dilute it. And less than a year before the next elections in the United States, when it is foreseeable that hawks from all possible sides will turn China into the favorite target of all imaginable diatribes. Both Democrats and Republicans agree on that. Get ready.

Undoubtedly, dialogue is always advisable. Essential to minimally stabilize their ties, something essential in view of the importance of their ties and the global significance of their differences. Another thing is that it contributes to rebuilding a certain level of mutual trust if it is not accompanied by concrete measures to mitigate conflicts.

Detail of "Despite your slaughter, we will return" (2014) by the Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah

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Planet Gaza

3 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Beyond the cruel genocidal slaughter underway, the most terrible thing about what is happening before our eyes in Gaza is that it offers a perspective for the future. The attitude of Western governments, their media and propagandists, contains a clear warning about how the privileged part of this world can solve the dead end to which the capitalist system invented and defended by them has led us in this century.

The solution is the one used for centuries by those same powers that today fear being displaced from the command bridge: decimate populations and seize resources through war.

Children in a car in the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Abed

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Exterminate all the brutes

7 min read CHRIS HEDGES

CHRIS HEDGES
When the occupied refuse to submit, when they continue to resist, we abandon all pretense of our “civilizing” mission and unleash, as in Gaza, an orgy of slaughter and destruction. We become drunk on violence. This violence drives us mad. We kill with reckless ferocity. We become the beasts we accuse the oppressed of being.

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No human being can exist

21 min read SAREE MAKDISI

SAREE MAKDISI
What we are witnessing before our eyes is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of colonial warfare. In no case that I know of has ethnic cleansing been carried out through the use of massive artillery and intense bombing with ultra-modern weapons systems, including the one-ton bombs (and even heavier bunker-busting munitions) used by the Israelis who They fly the latest American jets.