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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 .

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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?

Durango bombing — Sculpture in memory of the 336 killed in the bombing of Durango installed in the city cemetery on March 30. Photo: Fernando Íñiguez

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Before Gernika, it was Durango

9 min read FERNANDO IÑIGUEZ

FERNANDO IÑIGUEZ
“We were in the church praying early in the morning, and all of a sudden we started to hear airplane engine noises and bombing noises. The nun and I ran to the confessional to protect ourselves, but my other sister, Conchita, did not have time. She saw how some rubble from the roof of the temple and some beams fell on her head, leaving her body hidden under the rubble. We never saw her again, not even dead."

"Something to say? A monument to courage”, a traveling sculpture through various cities around the world by the Italian artist Davide Dormino, which represents Assange, Snowden and Chelsea Manning standing on three chairs next to another empty one. Photo: Simone Ramella

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The traitors to Julian Assange

7 min read JOHN PILGER

JOHN PILGER
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious chuckle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We've become friends, and I've sat in many a courtroom listening to state tribunes try to silence him and his moral revolution in journalism.

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Chomsky: a stronger NATO is the last thing we need

17 min read CJ POLYCHRONIOU

CJ POLYCHRONIOU
Noam Chomsky, one of the world's most cited academics and regarded by millions as an international intellectual treasure, remains prodigiously lucid at 95. In this interview - published in collaboration with Truthout - the eminent professor flatly rejects the idea that a stronger NATO is needed instead of a negotiated solution to the Ukraine conflict and warns about the current strategy of "much worse" and the ever-increasing risk of escalation towards nuclear war.

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The role of the US in the origin of the drama of Afghan women

3 min read DAVID BOLLERO

DAVID BOLLERO
The official story presents the US as the power that tried to liberate the Afghan people; however, the balance of these 20 years shows a clear failure. The question that arises is whether at some point the Afghan people were really better off thanks to the US and, more specifically, women, who is the group on which they wanted to focus.

The answer to this question is offered to us by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad in The Withdrawal, a book that compiles many of the conversations that the American philosopher and the Indian historian and journalist have had for more than three decades.