Artículo Voltaire Network, 03.08.2015 Thierry Meyssan, académico e intelectual francés especializado en relaciones internacionales; presidente de Voltaire NetworkThe resumption of the repression of Kurds in Turkey is nothing more than a consequence of the impossible task of implementing the Juppé-Wright plan of 2011. While it was easy to deploy Daesh in the Syrian desert and the...
What Northern Ireland Teaches Us about Today’s War on Terror
Artículo GlobalPost, 15.07.2015 Corinne Purtill, corresponsal senior en el Reino UnidoIt was the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on London's transport system, and the memorial in Hyde Park was awash in flowers. Fifty-two metal plinths — one for each person killed on London Tube trains and buses on July 7, 2005 — rose against the sunny summer sky....
Iran Is No ‘Strategic Ally’
Artículo World Affairs, 17.07.2015 Alan JohnsonWith the nuclear deal done, it was no surprise that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, everybody’s favorite uncle, has been smiling beneficently. What is astonishing is that Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 until his retirement in 2003, has been smiling back. In fact, writing in the Telegraph, Meyer—playing...
Momentous Times for Democracy in Europe
Artículo OpenDemocracy, 13.07.2015 Mary Kaldor, profesora de Governanza Global (London School of Economics & Political Science)The shocking behaviour of the Eurozone leaders in punishing Greece for voting against austerity has alarming implications for the future. Is it too late to put democracy and Europe together again? We are living through momentous...
Cameron advierte de que no quiere un Reino Unido controlado por la UE
Reportaje El País, 26.06.2015 Belén Domínguez CebriánEl primer ministro británico, David Cameron, se ha mostrado "satisfecho" tras la última cumbre de jefes de Estado y Gobierno de la Unión Europea (UE) que se ha celebrado este jueves y viernes en Bruselas. Uno de los temas en la agenda —aunque eclipsado por laestrategia de inmigración y el encallamiento de las negociaciones...
World War II and the Origins of American Unease
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 12.05.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceWe are at the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. That victory did not usher in an era of universal peace. Rather, it introduced a new constellation of powers and a complex balance among them. Europe's great powers and empires...