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The German party that came out of the left and doubled its votes in five months

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
By now we all know the results of the elections to the European Parliament and we have drawn the main conclusions: victory for the right, leap for the extreme right, maintenance of social democracy and failure of the left and the greens. With slight variations, this panorama is the most generalized in the different European countries.

However, there is a phenomenon in these elections that is being analyzed little and that deserves to be studied because it may be perfectly viable to be carried out in many countries. This is the German party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW), a party that was founded five months ago as a split from the left (Die Linke) and has surpassed them by more than double the votes.

America Latin America News

A triumph against the current in Latin America

9 min read CECILIA GONZÁLEZ 0 comments

CECILIA GONZÁLEZ
The triumph of Claudia Sheinbaum in the presidential elections in Mexico marks a watershed in the country's history, strengthens the Latin American left and opposes the advances that the extreme right has had in the region in recent years.

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Israel strives to tame US president

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EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On the one hand, we have these criticisms of Israel, including those from the US, and on the other, the daily supply of bombs that, according to a good part of Western public opinion - including some American senators such as Elizabeth Warren - serves to facilitate the exercise of continued genocide. The images circulating are terrible and it is understandable that Hebrew television stations censor themselves. The average Israeli is in favor of war and the systematic destruction of the Gaza Strip, according to polls, and does not want to see disturbing images at dinner time.

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Luis Gonzalo Segura: analyzing the war in Ukraine independently has a very high cost

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Luis Gonzalo Segura is a former lieutenant in the Spanish Army. He was expelled from the Armed Forces for denouncing his corruption publicly in 2015. He is now a writer and collaborates in various media outlets. In his latest book, The Ukrainian Trap (Akal, 2023), he presents the key events of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. We spoke with him about the war and the latest events.

A Palestinian child at the site of an Israeli bombing of a mosque and several houses in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Asia U.S. USA/Europe News

(Never more)

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ARUNDHATI ROY
The richest and most powerful countries in the Western world, those who believe themselves to be keepers of the flame of the modern world's commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Gaza Strip has become a concentration camp. Those who have not yet been killed are dying of hunger. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. Their homes, hospitals, universities, museums and infrastructure of all kinds have been reduced to rubble.

Asia China News

Where is China going?

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SABINO VACA NARVAJA
What does the statement made by North American President Joe Biden saying that the Chinese economy “is a time bomb” and the recent reaction of tycoon Elon Musk calling for tariffs or trade barriers to be imposed on the main electric car manufacturing company have in common? Chinese BYD? The answer is very simple: China alienates and confuses the West, which tends to adopt a distorted and somewhat whimsical vision of the Asian country's political and economic system, at once ahistorical and decontextualized, particularly regarding what is happening with its economic growth, its productive system and its institutional structure.

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COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

7 min read DAVID SPRATT and IAN DUNLOP 1 comment

DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

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

America U.S. Latin America News

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

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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.

America U.S. News

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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Earthquake announced

7 min read LUIS BILBAO 0 comments

LUIS BILBAO
It's not lightning in a clear sky. The collapse of the institutions of capital, the decay of the system and the stench of decomposition from its leadership, comes from afar. And in the last two decades it accelerated to a paroxysm. It is not a turn to the extreme right of society that caused the collapse, but the other way around: it is the collapse of capitalist democracy that caused a social spasm and this circumstantial electoral result.

Asia China U.S. News

Joe Biden and Chinese culture

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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.

America Asia China U.S. News

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.