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Belen Fernandez

Belen Fernandez

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Trump on Mars

Trump on Mars

The destructive policies Trump outlined at his inauguration may indeed make an escape to other planets more appealing.

21.01.2025 20

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Belen Fernandez

Trump versus the Gulf of Mexico

Trump versus the Gulf of Mexico

At the end of the day, there is nothing ‘beautiful’ about imperialism.

16.01.2025 20

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Donald Trump and the great Panama Canal tantrum

As he gears up to retake the presidency of the United States this month, Donald Trump has spontaneously begun threatening to retake the Panama...

02.01.2025 4

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NYT ‘investigates’ genocide, uncovers nothing but ‘loosened standards’

On Thursday, The New York Times ran a bazillion-word would-be expose on the ongoing United States-backed Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip titled...

30.12.2024 20

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How a Sudanese refugee made my Christmas less pessimistic

As a child growing up in the 1980s in Washington, DC, Christmas was a time when the usual monotony of my Catholic school existence gave way to an...

25.12.2024 30

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Trump and the return of the National ‘Emergy’

In October 2018, a “migrant caravan” bound for the United States set out on foot from Honduras. The group was comprised of refuge seekers of all...

23.12.2024 100

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No surprise Americans are ‘rooting for’ the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer

On the morning of December 4, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare – the largest health insurer in the United States – was fatally shot in...

09.12.2024 100

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Fear and loathing in Culiacan, Sinaloa

At around two in the morning on Monday, November 25 – just hours after my arrival in the city of Culiacan in the northwestern Mexican state of...

04.12.2024 10

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The ceasefire in Lebanon will not last long

And so it has come to pass. Late on Tuesday night, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon, which came into effect at 4am (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday....

27.11.2024 5

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ICC arrest warrants: Netanyahu is certainly a criminal, but …

Yesterday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence...

23.11.2024 70

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Biden (maybe) wants Israel to stop using US bulldozers for ethnic cleansing

On Sunday, Israeli media reported a freeze in certain bulldozer shipments from the United States to Israel. The prominent English-language website...

12.11.2024 4

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It was anger that won Trump this election

At a campaign rally in the state of Wisconsin just days before yesterday’s United States presidential elections, former US president and current...

06.11.2024 6

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It’s raining bombs in a city by the sea

On Monday, the Israeli military set about maniacally bombarding the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, striking residential buildings left...

29.10.2024 2

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Yahya Sinwar may be dead, but there is no end in sight to this genocide

On Thursday, October 17, Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip – the latest “high-value target” in a genocidal war that...

18.10.2024 3

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The United States is already at war

Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan...

02.10.2024 100

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Israel’s assassinations can’t kill resistance

After assassinating Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in a devastating air strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood, the Israeli army...

29.09.2024 80

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Big Brother without borders: Israel’s psychopathic warfare in Lebanon

Exactly one week ago, on Tuesday, Israel remotely detonated hundreds of handheld pagers used by members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, killing at least...

24.09.2024 30

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The Lebanon pager attack: Israel’s terror playbook strikes again

On Tuesday, hundreds of handheld pagers used by members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded across Lebanon, killing at...

18.09.2024 20

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Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed...

05.09.2024 10

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The US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediator

On July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza...

28.08.2024 90

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‘Less flexible?’ Just say it NYT, Israel is sabotaging a ceasefire deal

Once in a while, The New York Times has to tell inconvenient truths regarding Israel, the preferred partner in crime of the United States and the...

14.08.2024 90

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Israel is not interested in peace

Just when you thought the situation in the Middle East couldn’t get any more incendiary, the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail...

31.07.2024 50

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Israel is in no place to talk about ‘red lines’

On Saturday, July 27, at least 12 children from the Druze community were killed in a rocket attack on the town of Majdal Shams in the...

30.07.2024 50

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Biden is out, but American plutocracy carries on

And so it has come to pass. United States President Joe Biden has dropped out of this year’s presidential race, bowing to pressure from fellow...

22.07.2024 60

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Is America’s gun fixation backfiring on its pushers?

It was a shot heard round the world – but most of all by presidential candidate Donald Trump, the victim of Saturday’s assassination attempt at...

15.07.2024 3

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