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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 says 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, today the Islamic Resistance Movement maintains its influence in all territorial sectors of the Strip that the Israeli army has abandoned, and there is no indication that this situation will change soon.

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Ukraine war and massive rearmament hidden from German elections

9 min read Michael von der Schulenburg 0 comments

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.

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When Al Qaeda jihadists are good

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Today, a jihadist group from Al Qaeda has just violently seized power in a country that shares the Mediterranean coast with us, is two hours by plane from the EU and borders NATO. It does not seem like good news, but they are not going to present this Syrian splinter group of Al Qaeda or its leader Al Jawlani to us like this.

The reason that justifies this military coup in the eyes of the West is that the overthrown government of Al Assad was a partner of Russia, Lebanon and Iran, so Islamic terrorists are now seen in a different light in the West. It is time to launch an appropriate campaign to whitewash them.

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The Kursk Race

5 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
The latest steps of the escalation that we have just witnessed in Ukraine, the involvement of the West in missile attacks on Russian territory and Moscow's response by launching for the first time, on November 21, an intermediate-range hypersonic missile called Oreshnik with multiple independent reentry vehicles (MIRVs), impossible to intercept and a conventional payload, have a clear and concrete logic: it is a race to define the assets for a future negotiated solution to this war.

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U.S. poll shows majority of Ukrainians want negotiations to end war

2 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
The European Union's rhetoric, from its European Commission to the German, French and Spanish governments, is that we must help the Ukrainians win the war and not allow them to lose territory to the Russian invasion. More or less, the same reasoning is used by the US government and NATO. The option of sitting down to negotiate with Russia to end the war as soon as possible and, if necessary, make territorial concessions seems to be synonymous with an accusation of complicity with Putin.

Well, someone seems to have asked Ukrainians what they think. It was the American pollster Gallup, and it discovered that this is precisely what the majority wants: to end the war as soon as possible, even with territorial concessions to Russia.

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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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Trump's America: ecstasy or agony?

7 min read JOSEPH CAMILLERI

JOSEPH CAMILLERI
Trump's electoral victory is not the momentous or unexpected event that many have made it out to be. It is, however, an unmistakable sign of a society in slow decline in which frustration, anger and bewilderment are reaching epidemic proportions.

The inevitable question is: how did this man manage to be re-elected President of the United States?

This is, after all, a man who was twice impeached as president, who rejected the outcome of the previous election. He is known to have repeatedly lied to the electorate before, during and since his first presidential term. This is a man whose business dealings have long been under a cloud, and who is widely accused of deceit, abuse of power and sexual misconduct.

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Trump, Europe and the Middle East

5 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The big puzzle is how far Trump will go with the Gaza Strip. Israel clearly wants to return to colonisation. To facilitate this, it has been keeping the bulk of its population, 2,3 million Palestinians, moving around for a year, not allowing them to stay anywhere in safety. The apparent intention is to drive them back to Egypt. To do this, he needs the green light from the White House, something Joe Biden has not been willing to grant. The question is whether Trump will allow it.