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Six points for navigating the turmoil in Iran

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VIJAY PRASHAD

Iran is in chaos. Protests of varying scales have erupted across the country, with escalating violence leading to the deaths of both demonstrators and police officers. What began as work stoppages and protests against inflation has coalesced around a range of discontented groups, including women and young people frustrated by a system unable to provide for their basic needs. Iran has been subjected to a prolonged economic siege and has been directly attacked by Israel and the United States, not only within its borders but also throughout West Asia (including its diplomatic enclaves in Syria). This economic warfare waged by the United States has created the conditions for this unrest, but the unrest itself is not directed at Washington, but rather at the government in Tehran.

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The exceptional clemency that Netanyahu is requesting

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
In the midst of his trial, and after nearly six years in court on several corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog, who will have to decide in the coming weeks. Many experts believe he will likely pardon the prime minister with some conditions, the extent of which is still unknown.

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The Serbian high command that organized the human safaris in Bosnia was a CIA agent

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PASCUAL SERRANO
The emerging reports about the "human safaris" in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War point to Jovica Stanisic as "the Serbian officer in charge of organizing the trips for the wealthy snipers." In fact, the investigation by the Milanese judiciary identifies Stanisic as the coordinator of these trips under the guise of "hunting excursions."
But who exactly is Jovica Stanisic? The media are simply reporting that he is the former head of Serbia's State Security Directorate (SDB), and that he was sentenced in 2023 to 15 years in prison for crimes committed in seven municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But if we investigate further and examine the documents from his trial, we discover that behind the high-ranking official under Milošević, what was actually lurking was a CIA agent.

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Western Sahara: neither a turning point nor a historic vote

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ISAIAS BARREÑADA
On October 31, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Western Sahara (S/RES/2797) which, as with previous resolutions, extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for one year and outlined a series of guidelines for resolving the conflict. The difference from previous resolutions is that it gave greater prominence to Morocco's proposal for autonomy in the territory.

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Nelson Hadad: Netanyahu plans to annex Palestine to Greater Israel

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.

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How Israel wants to convince the world by training ChatGPT and paying influencers

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The Israeli government has hired a conservative startup, Clock Tower X LLC, to create multimedia content that skews social media and AI algorithms in its favor. This was revealed by the Responsible Statecraft website of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to military-restraint foreign policy with close ties to the business world.
The initial contract is for $6 million, with the goal of placing 80% of Clock Tower's content on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast media, with a minimum target of 50 million views per month.

Europe Latin America Principal2

A Nobel Prize winner in war uniform

3 min read DANIEL JADUE 0 comments

DANIEL JADUE
When the Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, it chose to call "peace" what, in the South, we know as intervention and tutelage. It awarded it to a person who for years has placed herself at the disposal of a foreign power to promote a coup d'état in her own country. Someone who has even called, even in international forums, for foreign military intervention in the genocidal State of Israel, and who, in the midst of the devastation of Gaza, defends the Zionist entity with the grammar of "self-defense."

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Fernando Molina: "The outlook for Bolivia's second round is highly uncertain."

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CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise results of the first round of Bolivia's presidential elections, in which the Rodrigo Paz/Edman Lara ticket (32,1%) emerged victorious, raises expectations for the runoff on October 19. While the fragmentation of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), which governed the country for nearly 20 years, suggested a right-wing victory, the emergence of the Paz/Lara duo speaks otherwise. Paz will face former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga (26,8%) in a runoff election.

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TikTok and algorithm control, the latest step toward ending the right to information

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PASCUAL SERRANO
First, journalists held the power of communication, then the media (journalists held the power of the medium in which they reported), then the owners of communication companies (the owner of the printing press). Then came the internet, and social media, which are the means of reaching citizens and the mediators between them and the media, took over (as MacLuhan said, "the medium is the message"). And now it's the algorithm; it's the algorithm that decides what you'll see on social media, which dictates what you'll see in the media.

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A president who could end the world

11 min read Tom Engelhardt 0 comments

TOM ENGELHARDT
Let's imagine for a moment that a nuclear bomb explodes over... well, take your pick: Pakistan, India, or, why not, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use that word deliberately) explosive for days (weeks, months?) straight, assuming, of course, that any media outlets were left to cover it.

Still from the film 'City of Life and Death', which recounts the Nanjing Massacre.

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China in World War II: A Necessary Reassessment

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XULIO RIOS
In China, the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the global victory over fascism reminds us of the enormous sacrifice endured by this country in its long struggle against the Japanese invader. The Japanese invasion of the 30s and 40s, marked by atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre (1937), subjected China to unimaginable cruelty.
nable. According to the most recent estimates, military and civilian casualties exceeded 35 million people in a battle that lasted 14 years. More than any other country involved in the conflict. This suffering added considerable difficulties to the reconstruction work promoted by the new power established in 1949.

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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.