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The Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda has been linked to experiments for a US military vaccine.

5 min read GLOBALTER EDITORIAL

GLOBALTER EDITORIAL
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) allegedly received $35,75 million in covert funding from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) between 2021 and 2023 to develop a vaccine against the Marburg virus, according to the German news portal New-facts.

IAVI reportedly conducted vaccine research at the Kigali Family Health Research Centre (KFHCRC) in Rwanda, where numerous virus samples were cultured. A serious security incident occurred in September 2024: a leak of virus samples occurred in the KFHRC laboratory.

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Germany will be the first country with a former BlackRock executive at the helm of government.

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WERNER RÜGEMER
Germany will be the first country where a former BlackRock official becomes head of government. Friedrich Merz was not a "lobbyist," as is often described. He not only received a salary, but also held a leadership role within the group: the CDU politician was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the subsidiary BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland Aktiengesellschaft from 2016 to 2020. He reported to the New York headquarters of the largest capital organizer in the Western world, led by the United States. Merz was tasked with driving BlackRock's expansion in Germany.

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Leila Guerriero: “What surprised me most was the stigma attached to survivors.”

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero was already a renowned journalist before publishing "La llamada," but this book places her in a more than prominent place in the genre with which she is most identified: narrative journalism.

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Romania awaits new presidential elections in crisis

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Romania's Central Election Bureau (CEB), the institution responsible for ensuring the security of the national elections, has finally announced: Călin Georgescu will not be able to run as a candidate for the presidential elections on May 4.

The vote to elect the new head of state in Romania was due to take place at the end of last year, but the Constitutional Court decided to annul the results of the first round of elections, held in November, and to have them repeated in 2025.

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Bibi Netanyahu's juggling act

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu knows that as long as the war is not over, there will be an important pretext to justify its continuation and the non-calling of elections. He repeatedly declares that the circumstances are not yet in place to proclaim the “total victory” that he promised the Israelis more than a year ago and which includes the complete disappearance of Hamas.

He claims that the day after the war ends, Hamas should be absent from the Strip, not only as a militia but also as a political entity. However, to this day, the Islamic Resistance Movement maintains its influence in all the territorial sectors of the Strip that the Israeli army has abandoned.

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Will Europe be able to “guide itself”?

28 min read MILLAN FERNANDEZ

MILLAN FERNANDEZ
If the EU has renounced active diplomacy for peace and has uncritically submitted to the US; if it has shamelessly promoted revolts and interference in the Caucasus or ignored results ranging from Romania (EU) to Venezuela or if, in short, it only aspires to impose a vision and a “democratic model” that is not very democratic, what remains of its founding spirit and values? Does it make sense to try to expand it through wars, destabilizations and promotion of coups d'état?

Ukrainian soldiers train at a military camp in eastern France, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP)

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More than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers desert from a newly trained elite brigade in France

4 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
On November 15, the Associated Press reported that the new brigade of several thousand Ukrainian troops had been trained in France and was joining “the fight against the Russian invasion armed with tanks and artillery guns supplied by France.”

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How the US and Israel destroyed Syria and called it peace

9 min read JEFFREY D SACHS

JEFFREY D SACHS
The long history of Israel’s campaign to overthrow the Syrian government is not well known, but the documentary record is clear. Israel’s war on Syria began with American and Israeli neoconservatives in 1996, who designed a “clean break” Middle East strategy for Netanyahu when he came to power.

The core of the “clean break” strategy required Israel (and the United States) to reject the idea of “land for peace,” according to which Israel would withdraw from occupied Palestinian lands in exchange for peace. Instead, Israel would retain the occupied Palestinian lands, rule over the Palestinian people in an apartheid state, ethnically cleanse the state step by step, and impose so-called “peace for peace” by overthrowing neighboring governments that resisted Israel’s territorial claims.

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Trump, Gorbachev and the fatal parallels

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
In 2025, when convicted US President Donald Trump takes office, it will be 40 years since Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader. There are some interesting parallels between the situations faced by both leaders.

Although the differences between the USSR in the 1980s and the current state of the US are not minor, there are some notable similarities. If perestroika emerged to lift the USSR out of Brezhnev’s stagnation, Trump’s policies are similarly aimed at “making America great again,” admitting a certain paralysis.

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The European Union could break up over its policy in Ukraine

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MICHAEL VON DER SCHULENBURG AND RUTH FIRMENICH
The fundamental problem with the European Parliament's Ukraine resolution is that the EU has neither the power nor the influence to enforce any of the war aims it contains. Its call for an uncompromising continuation of the war until Ukraine achieves military victory over Russia comes at a time when Ukraine is no longer in a position to win this war by military means.

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Spain and China, a linchpin for dialogue

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The visit of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez to China has enabled two important observations. First, that the harmony between both parties persists and that it is revealed as a political capital of great relevance to face common challenges. And second, that both governments are working together to promote dialogue as the main mechanism to find negotiated solutions to tariff tensions with the EU.

View of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. Photo: Txema García Paredes

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Guggenheim: the Altri of Urdaibai

7 min read Txema Garcia Paredes 0 comments

TXEMA GARCIA WALLS
From Palas de Rei (Lugo) to Murueta (Bizkaia) there are 581 kilometres by road. However, all this distance is reduced to nothing if we consider that their destinations are linked by a full-blown embezzlement, if someone or something does not remedy it beforehand.

Both are candidates to win a macabre lottery with different signs. These are two megaprojects with the same formula of stealing from citizens based on “public-private” collaboration, a euphemism that consists of giving away public money to economic and business elites eager to make a fortune.