Buenos días.
Esta noticia es inquietante, la franja central del Pacífico ha alcanzado los 30 °C de temperatura. Este es un acontecimiento geohistórico que debería poner en alerta a todos los gobiernos del mundo. Los mares y océanos del planeta están acumulando el calor de la atmósfera y amortiguando temporalmente el calentamiento acelerado del aire, causado por la quema de combustibles fósiles y la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero.
Aunque a decir verdad, cada vez soy más pesimista respecto a un cambio de rumbo, y no tanto por la codicia de los más ricos o la ineficiencia de los políticos, sino por la estupidez de la mayoría de la personas que habitan el mundo pudiente, entregadas sin matices al hedonismo consumista y, por lo tanto, individualista y egoísta.
A pesar de todo, les deseo un #FelizDomingo 🙂
Se llama Itamar Ben Gvir y es ministro de Seguridad Nacional de Israel. Es uno de los responsables directos de la limpieza étnica en Cisjordania y no se corta a la hora de defender el genocidio en Gaza. Aquí van algunas de sus perlas.
La presidenta de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI), la japonesa Tomoko Akane, alertó del riesgo de "desaparición del Estado de derecho internacional", tras ser objeto esta semana de sanciones por parte de EEUU, que considera la CPI una institución "politizada" #AFP
Perú enfrenta el reto del envejecimiento mientras los jóvenes emigran
La CEPAL advierte que América Latina envejece a un ritmo acelerado. En Perú, comunidades como Sihue, en Ayacucho, ya sienten el impacto: cada vez hay menos alumnos en las escuelas y más adultos mayores viven solos tras la migración de los jóvenes. Ante este cambio demográfico, el organismo pide fortalecer la protección social y el empleo digno.
🇨🇴 | Tras una reunión con el presidente colombiano Abelardo De La Espriella, el gobernador de Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendón, reveló que al mandatario le gustó la idea de aplicar la figura de “reconstrucción por impuestos” para atender la emergencia por el terremoto.
There is a type of Western feminist who has strong opinions about the hijab and has never once organized against an arms sale.
Who discusses Muslim women's autonomy at length and has never read a word about what structural adjustment programs imposed by Western-led financial institutions did to female employment, female education, and female healthcare access across the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Who can describe in detail the ways Islamic jurisprudence has historically constrained women's rights and cannot name a single woman killed by a drone strike.
This feminist is not unintelligent.
She has simply inherited a feminism that was constructed within empire, that took imperial priorities as its frame, that universalized a very specific, very Western, very culturally located set of concerns about women's freedom while remaining systematically incurious about the relationship between that freedom and the violence done abroad in its name.
Her feminism includes her.
It reaches toward Muslim women instrumentally, when their suffering can be used to argue for Western superiority.
It does not reach toward the women under the bombs.
It does not reach toward the women whose healthcare infrastructure was defunded because the IMF required it.
It does not reach toward the women picking through rubble.
It was never meant to.
Los ataques, ocurridos en tres ocasiones, han dejado al menos ocho pescadores ecuatorianos desaparecidos y decenas de testimonios de sobrevivientes que aseguran que sus embarcaciones fueron atacadas con drones y los tripulantes detenidos durante días por hombres armados https://t.co/sqCDX643vi
"That little [Israeli] flag the Protestants carry around everywhere is going to drag them straight to hell"
Catholic sermon in Guatemala sparks controversy
The most important political education you can give yourself costs nothing and requires no ideology.
Just read the documents.
Not the textbooks. Not the summaries. Not the Wikipedia overview written by someone who read the textbooks.
The actual documents.
NSC-68, 1950: the United States must pursue "a world environment in which the American system can survive and flourish."
Not a world free from tyranny. Not a world safe for all democracies.
A world in which the American system survives.
Meaning: its economic model. Its access to markets. Its control of the arrangements that make American prosperity possible.
The Wolfowitz Doctrine, 1992: the United States must prevent "any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power."
Any power. Not Soviet power. Any power.
Any country strong enough to make its own regional arrangements without American permission.
Joint Vision 2020 & PNAC, 2000: the United States called for "full spectrum dominance," while seeking to preserve American military preeminence across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
Both written one year before September 11 by the people who would run the Iraq War.
These documents are public. They are declassified. They are in libraries.
They say, in plain language, what the textbooks spend three hundred pages obscuring.
The textbooks won not because they were more persuasive.
They won because they were assigned.
NSSM-200. National Security Study Memorandum 200. 1974. Written under Henry Kissinger.
Classified until 1989.
Its subject: world population growth and its implications for American national security.
Its argument: population growth in the developing world, specifically in thirteen countries identified by name, including Nigeria, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, represented a strategic threat to the United States.
Not because overpopulation causes humanitarian crisis.
Because large, young populations in resource-rich countries create political pressure for those countries to control their own resources.
The memo was explicit: if developing countries develop politically conscious, resource-nationalist governments responding to their own populations' needs, they will demand control of their oil, their minerals, their agricultural land.
And that control would come at the expense of American access.
The solution proposed was population control programs, funded through USAID and international organizations, targeting those specific countries.
Not as humanitarian aid.
As strategic intervention to reduce the political pressure that large populations place on governments to actually serve their people.
This document exists. It is declassified. You can read it.
And then you can look at fifty years of American-funded population programs in the Global South with the full knowledge of what the architects said, privately, in 1974, about what those programs were actually for.
The aid was real.
The stated purpose was false.
The document says so.
Este 13 de agosto se cumplieron las primeras 72 horas tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,4 que sacudió a Colombia. Con cientos de muertos, miles de heridos y desaparecidos, los rescatistas mantienen abiertas las últimas búsquedas mientras las familias esperan una señal de vida entre las ruinas
https://t.co/TwLItHcGRm
En otra esquina de Pereira, decenas de vecinos acaban de despejar una losa gigante con sogas y sus propias manos. Es otro de los lugares donde la institucionalidad apenas apareció. Una de las cuestiones que explica por qué hay más fuerza pública en unos lugares u otros es la posibilidad de encontrar vida. Aquí ya hallaron siete cadáveres y los equipos de rescate se dirigieron a explorar otros edificios https://t.co/Pv9GdFbS3a
The Monroe Doctrine has shaped U.S. foreign policy for over two centuries. 🇺🇸
American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.
Iran is aware that Trump regime forces in Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Jordan are mobilizing for a potential blitzkrieg - possibly alongside Zionist forces - against the Iranian people. The Islamic Republic stands ready with a swift and crushing response.
El Tribunal Supremo de Rusia anuncia su decisión de excluir al partido opositor Yábloko, el único que se opone a la guerra en Ucrania, de las elecciones legislativas de septiembre.
https://t.co/RvvX5pUXCF
Let me say the uncomfortable thing directly.
The critique that Russia and China "stand for nothing" comes, in many cases, from a political tradition that loves resistance as an aesthetic and is less comfortable with resistance as a project.
Resistance as aesthetic is:
The speech.
The gesture.
The flag.
The recognition.
The statement of solidarity.
The vote at the United Nations.
Resistance as project is:
Building the institutions.
Maintaining the alliances.
Absorbing the economic costs.
Making the decisions that preserve enough power to actually change conditions on the ground.
Iran is heroic.
Iran's resistance is genuine and its costs have been enormous and the Iranian people deserve every acknowledgment of what they have endured.
Iran is also, because of those costs, economically devastated, regionally isolated, increasingly reliant on its relationships with China and Russia, and unable on its own to generate the sustained economic and institutional power required to shift the global balance.
Iran chose dignity. That choice is real and it deserves respect.
Russia and China are choosing to build the world that comes after American hegemony.
These are different projects.
One is about bearing witness to the crimes of power.
The other is about replacing the architecture of power with something that doesn't require the next Iran to choose between dignity and survival.
Both matter.
But the second one is harder, less photogenic, and takes longer.
Don't mistake the timeframe for cowardice.
#NoticiasTorreTagle | El Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Carlos Espá, sostuvo una conversación telefónica con el Ministrode Asuntos Exteriores del Estado de Israel, Gideon Sa'ar, para abordar los principales temas de la relación bilateral y las oportunidades de cooperación técnica en materia de seguridad, gestión de recursos hídricos y respuesta frente al fenómeno de El Niño.
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