Belén Fernández

It is a sign of the extent to which Thomas Friedman has become simply another fact of life that 2025 passed with hardly any acknowledgement that it

Thanks to Netanyahu and Trump, scandal is now our new normal - call it 'Everythinggate'.

In October 2024, one year into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and attendant assault on Lebanon, the Israeli army did a thing. It invited journalists from major Western corporate media outlets on an incursion into Lebanon’s ravaged south, accompanied by Israeli military personnel who would interpret the wreckage in Israel’s favor—not that...

The 2026 World Cup promised continental unity. Instead, it has exposed the violence and hypocrisy of Fortress America.

On June 11, the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicked off in Mexico, which, along with the United States and Canada, is cohosting this year’s tournament in an ostensible display of continental unity. From the get-go, the whole shared hosting concept was rather...

Plastered onto the side of the glassed-in immigration office at the dock in Necoclí – the northwestern Colombian city just across the Gulf of Urabá from

The corporate media outlets that hint at the fact that the Israeli occupation of Lebanon will proceed apace do so in as roundabout a fashion as possible.

In the months leading up to the crisis in Ceuta, pro-Israel voices conspicuously raised the issue of the enclave.

A right-wing wave is sweeping through the region and that is not good news.

Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.