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Sevim Dagdelen: The EU and NATO's massive rearmament plans have nothing to do with defense

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
Sevim Dagdelen, a former German Bundestag member and spokesperson for international affairs for the parliamentary group of Sahra Wagenkecht's party (BSW), has been in Spain (Madrid and Valencia) presenting her book "NATO: A Reckoning with the Alliance of Values," published in Spain earlier this year. Previously, she was the leader of the Left Party's Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, and Economic Committees.

We talked about his book, but also about Europe and the war in Ukraine.

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The European Union will fund the anti-communist radio station launched by the US during the Cold War.

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PASCUAL SERRANO
The European Union agreed on May 20 to provide emergency funding to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the U.S. government ended its subsidies to the network.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said EU foreign ministers had agreed on a €5,5 million funding package to "support the vital work of Radio Free Europe."

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Side…. which side?

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XULIO RIOS
The barrage of criticism surrounding Pedro Sánchez's recent trip to China has been surprising. They say it's not "our side," that "there's more to Asia" than China (although the mission also included Vietnam), that the timing couldn't have been worse... However, the trip was a complete success, both in terms of the current situation and the expectations it met, judging by the official assessment provided by Moncloa.

And which side are we on? That of Mr. "Neckcutter," who assigns unavoidable duties to Minister Cuerpo? Or that of Robert Palladino, chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Hungary, who has warned the Hungarian government to refrain from attracting Chinese investment?

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The birth of a new international order

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JEFFREY D SACHS
Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in Fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

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The US, an empire in decline

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The international community is bewildered by the seemingly confusing decisions of Donald Trump and his team, but in my opinion, there is a certain consistency in all of them: the recognition of the United States' failure as a dominant global power and the retreat from its leadership.

The issue of tariffs is probably the most telling. Three decades ago, the United States felt like the victorious economic power in a globalized world. It believed its global production, sales, and distribution capacity was superior to that of other countries and that its market dominance was absolute.

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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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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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Ukraine war and massive rearmament hidden from German elections

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Michael von der Schulenburg
The war in Ukraine and its consequences will have a lasting negative impact on Germany's political, security, economic and social future. For the West, this war is already lost; Ukraine is its blood sacrifice and the EU countries, above all Germany, are the losers. Germany's leading parties, the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and FDP, as well as the country's established media, bear a large part of the blame for this.

However, questions about their responsibilities in this war have been mysteriously silenced during the current German election campaign. Similarly, there is hardly any talk of the German government's massive rearmament efforts and its attempts to make Germany "ready for war."

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The Gaza 'war' was a lie, just like the ceasefire. Trump just told you so

14 min read JONATHAN COOK

JONATHAN COOK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House this week broke the mask of 16 months of gaslighting by Western leaders and the entire Western establishment media. US President Donald Trump has finally stopped sugar-coating Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. Trump has dropped Washington's sugar-coating of Israel's 15-month-long genocidal destruction of Gaza. It was always about ethnic cleansing.

It was always, he told us, a massacre made in the USA. In his words, Washington will now “take over” Gaza and develop it. And the aim of the massacre was always ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, killed by Israel with US-supplied bombs. Gaza, meanwhile, would become the “Riviera of the Middle East”, with the “people of the world” – he meant rich whites like himself – living in luxury beachfront estates instead.

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A “new reactionary international”: how Elon Musk is spreading his fascist ideals in Europe

4 min read MARIUS THIRION ROSZYK

MARIUS THIRION ROSZYK
If Donald Trump began his second term as President of the United States on January 20, he owes it in part to his new friend Elon Musk. With little rancor, the American billionaire has offered the new Ministry of “Government Efficiency” to the man who, in 2022, considered him “too old to be President of anything, let alone the United States of America.”

It is worth remembering that Musk used his considerable influence to help the Republican candidate win, occupying the public space like never before.

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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Syria, political Islam will not have a second chance

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the Greater Syria Liberation Organization in Damascus, speculation is open about the future of the country, which has been completely devastated by the international boycott, because Baathism, a socialist and pan-Arab ideology, never had the opportunity to exercise power, neither before 2011 nor after 2011, after the so-called Arab Spring.

The Baath's attempts have been left behind, thwarted time and again by Israeli-Western interference, which went so far as to punish Syria with terrible and undeserved sanctions that made any undertaking impossible, even before 2011. This continued situation has led to a supreme disaster, and the rapid advance of the rebels shows to what extent this has been the case.