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Refugees for life

4 min read KHOLOUD FAQAWI

KHOLOUD FAQAWI
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the forced displacement and exile of more than 700.000 Palestinians from their homes, towns and cities during the 1948 war that culminated in the creation of the State of Israel. Since then, the *Nakba*, as Palestinians refer to it, has remained a persistent story of deprivation in the collective consciousness of Palestinians.

Palestinians who were forcibly displaced or expelled from their homes in what is now “Israel” and their descendants, who maintain essential ties to the region, have a legal right of return under international law. However, it seems unlikely that the Palestinians will be able to return.

The two receptions of the BRI

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
The Belt and Road Initiative (IFR) celebrates its first decade of implementation in 2023. The time elapsed supports it as a long-term project. Two attitudes have marked the global reaction to it. On the one hand, developing countries have celebrated being able to have an alternative proposal that focuses on their most pressing needs, especially in terms of infrastructure.

China's plan provides specific support in areas poorly served by traditional available financing, filling a gap of singular importance. On the other hand, developed countries have evolved from initial ambiguity and reservation to a certain competitive hostility.

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

Asia U.S. News

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.

America USA/Europe News

How 'majoritarian democracy' overwhelms democracy

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On other occasions in history, tyrants have violently put an end to democracy, supported by a more or less considerable part of the people. But now the common people support the tyrants from the ballot box. The people seem tired of traditional democracy and lean towards tyranny. The fatigue may come from living in extraordinarily complex societies that are not easy to manage, so that people prefer the simplifications that tyranny promises over the increasing complexity of democracy. The result is booming “majority democracies”—a euphemism for tyranny.

America Latin America News

The oil and the left in Latin America

8 min read SERGIO NAVAS

SERGIO NAVAS
Today, the world is burning more oil than ever before. Although the green agenda and renewable energies are advancing, the reality is that the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have delayed the energy transition. The peak of fossil fuel consumption is now expected for 2032. In addition to Covid and Ukraine, the trade war against China has further contributed to the 'deglobalizing' scenario, pushing for a geopolitical realignment.

Africa America Asia China U.S. USA/Europe Latin America News

“The decarbonization 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.

Africa News

What is happening in Niger is far from a typical coup

8 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
On July 26, 2023, Niger's presidential guard mobilized against the incumbent president -Mohamed Bazoum- and staged a coup. A brief contest between the different armed forces of the country ended with the agreement of all branches on the removal of Bazoum and the creation of a military junta led by General Abdourahamane “Omar” Tchiani, commander of the Presidential Guard.

This is the fourth country in the Sahel region of Africa to have suffered a coup: the other three are Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. The new government announced that it would stop allowing France to extract uranium from Niger (one in three French light bulbs is powered by uranium from the Arlit deposit in northern Niger).

America China U.S. Latin America News

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.

America Latin America News

The Argentine model of companies recovered by their workers

15 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
The memory of December 2001 in Argentina refers, almost automatically, to the corralito. However, at the same time that the banks were leaking massive sums of money; the former president, Fernando de la Rúa, was leaving the government house by helicopter in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis; and there was atrocious repression against a people that had taken to the streets to demonstrate; some of the most important experiences of popular organization that can be accounted for in Argentine history were also cooked up.

Neighborhood assemblies, barter, unemployed movements, cartoneros, or companies recovered by their workers, began to form part of the daily landscape and managed to insert dynamics of massive and unprecedented grassroots organization until then.

Africa America Asia U.S. USA/Europe News

Fifteen reasons why media employees act like propagandists

28 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
If you look at the Western media with a critical eye, you end up noticing how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US centralized empire, much as you would expect if they were government-run propaganda outlets. That this extreme bias occurs is obvious and indisputable to anyone paying attention, but why and how it occurs is harder to see.

America Latin America News

The original peoples of Argentina in search of reparation for the genocide

11 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
The trials against humanity for the crimes perpetrated during the last Argentine military dictatorship created a precedent worldwide, but they have also laid the foundations for indigenous peoples to promote legal proceedings against the Argentine State for genocidal practices. Encouraged by the processes that have taken place in the last 40 years, different indigenous communities have undertaken their own processes of memory, truth and justice, with which they have already obtained two favorable sentences.

The reconstruction of what happened in the massacres was achieved, fundamentally, with the testimony of the survivors, and their descendants thanks to the indigenous oral tradition, but the work of archivists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists was also fundamental, who provided evidence .

Africa America Asia USA/Europe News

Those who pollute, those who pay and those who get rich with green capitalism

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
The phenomenon of global warming and all that this implies for the future of our planet has generated a movement of concern, concern and reforms at a global level. The simplified speech is simple, the future of humanity is in danger due to the activity of the human being and we must take measures to face this deterioration.

Now, many nuances arise. Are we all really equally responsible? Does it make sense to ask for voluntary actions and sacrifices that may have a very limited impact, if the governments and citizens of the most powerful countries do not take action?