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A report from the US Congress recognizes the success of Russian media in Latin America

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."

Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."

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Who decides who is a terrorist?

10 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
After the attack by Hamas on Israel, the hackneyed concept of terrorism has returned to the present, with which it is intended, through this accusation, to disavow some and, through the fight against it, legitimize the actions of others.

It is assumed that, at least the press and journalists, should use language in a neutral way, not conditioned by the bias of certain political powers. According to the RAE, terrorism is “Domination by terror” or “Succession of acts of violence carried out to instill terror.” It is evident that under this consideration we could include many issues that the media never think of calling terrorism.

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The news has nothing to do with newsworthiness

4 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
It's not that editors coordinate with each other across the media or receive instructions on what to report from oligarchs and government agencies, it's that if they were the kind who needed to do those things to know what to report, they wouldn't be working where they work.

How did the mainstream press know to ignore the scandal of a Ukrainian Nazi applauded in the Canadian parliament? How did they know to discredit Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn? How do they know to support all the wars while ignoring the homeless and economic injustice? It sure isn’t “common sense.”

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Political hatred, sign of the times in the West

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Every day there are more people calling for authoritarianism, in Israel, Spain, the United States, Argentina and other Western countries. Puzzled by the complexity that the world has been acquiring, a complexity that continues to grow, these people ask for immediate and simple solutions to complex problems, creating a dizzying whirlpool that we do not know where it will lead.

Those who think opposite hate each other, without reconciliation seeming possible. It is a vitiated atmosphere that permeates the entire West, not just in Israel. And with growing intolerance it is not sending a good signal or creating a better future, quite the opposite.

The Chinese city of Xiamen, seen from Gulangyu Island.

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Plan A for Taiwan is written with F for Fujian

5 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Without ceasing to multiply military exercises clearly aimed at Taiwan (and also with a message for the US and its policies, which Beijing describes as encouraging independence), China has announced its intention to turn the province of Fujian into a demonstration zone for development. integrated across the Taiwan Strait.

The objective is, at the same time, to illustrate and legitimize the discourse on their desire to achieve peaceful reunification, while weakening the secessionist movement that, for the moment, has the upper hand in Taiwan.

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The real threat from China: they have a better capitalist system than ours

9 min read PATRICK LAWRENCE

PATRICK LAWRENCE
What are we doing to train the doctors and scientists needed to find our way in the XNUMXst century? What are we doing to bring the dispossessed into the economy, to address drug addiction and the rest of our social ills? What are we doing (I mean seriously) to repair and build the infrastructure we need?

The Chinese challenge could and should be understood as an opportunity to reinvent the US through a Great Mobilization on the magnitude of the New Deal. Of course, this idea is nothing more than hot air. Instead, we are sacrificing this historic opportunity in favor of military-industrial development.

Kensington in Philadelphia, known as the "zombie neighborhood." Image taken from a video by youtuber Kim Gary.

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Fentanyl: the largest narcotics crisis in US history

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ

Two years ago, YouTuber KimGary began posting on his channel the well-known videos about the massive presence of drug addicts on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. Under other circumstances, his recordings would be unremarkable and would not have been broadcast around the globe. But this town in the state of Pennsylvania is not the only one affected by the serious "narcocrisis" that the United States is facing.

In 2021 alone (the latest date for which reliable data is available), 106.699 of your fellow citizens died from an overdose. Records of this type of death have increased by 33,8% since 2019, which means that the problem not only persists, but has worsened.

Demonstration in Washington on July 27 demanding an official end to the Korean War. Photo: Women Cross DMZ

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Korean War Continues With Biden's Renewed North Korea Travel Ban

9 min read AMANDA YEE

AMANDA YEE
On August 22, the US State Department renewed the ban preventing US passport holders from traveling to North Korea. This measure prevents 100.000 Korean residents in the US from visiting their relatives in North Korea. It was first launched by the Trump Administration in 2017, and—despite repeated calls from Korean activists to lift it—it has been renewed every year since.

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Gabon: The fall of “Obama’s man in Africa”

7 min read MAX BLUMENTHAL

MAX BLUMENTHAL
Before his removal in a military coup, Gabon's corrupt president, Ali Bongo, was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war in Libya, which destabilized the region, might not have succeeded without him.
When a military junta arrested President Ali Bongo Odinmba on August 30, Gabon became the ninth African nation to overthrow its government in a military coup.

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«The decarbonisation of the rich is not ours»

10 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Green colonialism or green capitalism is what critical environmentalism calls the exploitation of natural resources from the global North over the global South, and which will make it possible to guarantee the energy transition that industrialized countries boast so much about, that is, those that more pollute. But the energy transition requires natural resources that the north does not have, such as lithium or green hydrogen.

While the socio-environmentalist denounces the serious consequences of plundering practices, governments and corporations close agreements. Even countries that show irreconcilable differences in world geopolitics shake hands in their territories and seal commitments. On the side of Latin American progressives, the more or less critical position regarding extractivism depends on whether they are a government or not, and on the pressing economic needs that make them dependent on foreign currency.

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The dark secrets of the US biological laboratories

6 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The public debate on the origin of the global pandemic of COVID-19 continues to unfold almost four years after it began. The most supported theory is that the virus that caused it arose naturally, being transferred to the first human being who contracted the disease from an infected animal.

American science journalist Alison Young defends a second version of the disease's origin story in her book Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk.

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Of Chinese bases, crickets, vaccines and nuclear submarines in Cuba

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Last June, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated that, according to the intelligence information available to them, China was strengthening its infrastructure for data collection in foreign countries, and added more specifically that "the People's Republic China had carried out an upgrade of its intelligence gathering facilities in Cuba in 2019."

The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, adding that while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with President Xi Jinping, China was negotiating to establish a military training center in Cuba, which would put thousands of soldiers 90 miles away. off the coast of Florida.