Counter Hegemony

Israel's targeted killings of Palestinian journalists Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, the Israeli military has killed more than 130 Palestinian journalists in Gaza. That's more than in any other country in a single year since 1992. By comparison, six journalists have been killed in the entire Ukrainian war since 2014. In 2023, 75 percent of all journalists killed worldwide died in Israel's a...

The questions Putin didn't answer in the Tucker Carlson Interview On February 6, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was the first interview granted to a Western journalist since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. There are at least three key questions that Putin did not answer during the interview. First, U.S.-Russia relations after the...

The weaponization of anti-Semitism Following the Hamas attacks of October 7, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with its Western allies and the mainstream media, launched a massive public relations campaign. Its goal was and is to smear anyone who criticizes the policies of the Israeli government and stands in solidarity with the Palestinians in both Gaza and the We...

What Israel's far-right wants On January 28, Israeli settlers held a conference calling for the rebuilding of settlements in the Gaza Strip. Twelve ministers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party attended the so-called “Return to Gaza” conference. However, the central figures of the event were Finance Minister and leader of the far-right Zionist National Religious Party, Bezalel Smo...

What the media won't tell you about Gaza The Gaza Strip represents about two percent of Palestine’s historic landmass. Prior to the creation of Israel in 1948, it was administratively, politically, and economically linked to the rest of Palestine. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist paramilitary and later Israeli military forces destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages. They carried out more than 7...

Zionism and Latin America's far-right Argentina's new right-wing libertarian president, Javier Milei, describes himself as a “fanatic of Israel". He sees the country as Argentina's main ally and has announced a visit to Tel Aviv in February. Milei plans to move Argentina's embassy to Jerusalem. He is following the example of former U.S. President Donald Trump. In 2017, the U.S. became the first an...

What the media won't tell you about Hamas Hamas was founded in the Gaza Strip in 1987 at the outset of the First Intifada, a period of intense Palestinian protest against Israeli occupation. Its name is an Arabic acronym for "Islamic Resistance Movement. Twenty years earlier, in 1967, Israel had occupied Gaza and the West Bank. So Hamas emerged in response to Zionist settler colonization and the o...

Ukraine war at a stalemate? Will the West fight to the last Ukrainian? In early November, Ukraine's commander-in-chief, General Zaluzhny, acknowledged that the Ukraine war had reached a stalemate. Since the summer, there have been few territorial advances on either side. Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which began in early June, has not produced the expected outcome. In Ukraine, military morale is dec...

Chile after the referendum: The crisis continues (Interview with Pablo Abufom) On December 17, Chilean voters rejected a new constitution drafted by conservative lawmakers in a nationwide referendum. The charter would have replaced the neoliberal and authoritarian constitution passed during the Pinochet dictatorship. The vote came more than a year after an overwhelming majority of Chileans also re...

Chile after the referendum: What's next? (Interview with Marcela Vera) On December 17, Chilean voters rejected a new conservative constitution in a nationwide referendum. The neoliberal and authoritarian constitution adopted in 1980 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet will now remain in place. In late 2019, Chile was rocked by massive anti-neoliberal and anti-inequality demonstrat...

Why the US supports Israel Israel is the most important US ally in the Middle East. For decades, US governments have funded Israel's military and political regime and provided financial, intelligence and diplomatic support. Israel is the largest recipient of US military aid. Over the past several decades, Israel has played a crucial role in defending US imperial interests in the Middle East. It ha...

Is Israel's assault on Gaza about gas? There are several videos floating around the Internet claiming that Israel's assault on Gaza has to do with the natural gas reserves located off the Gazan coast. In 1999, the Palestinian National Authority signed a gas exploration contract with the company British Gas. The following year, two wells were drilled, Gaza Marine I and II. In response, Israel began...

Argentina election: Why Milei really won On November 19th political outsider and self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei had convincingly won the Argentine presidential election against current Economy Minister Sergio Massa of the ruling Peronist coalition. The podcast analyses three key factors that help understand Milei's victory.

Israel's assault on Gaza: UN Director resigns citing "genocide" In late October, Craig Mokhiber, the Director of the New York Office for Human Rights resigned in protest against the UN’s response to Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. Mokhiber's public resignation letter contains a scathing critique of the UN. Most of the Western mainstream media ignored it.

Is another Argentina possible? (Interview with Maristella Svampa) On November 19th, Argentine voters will choose their new president in a runoff election. Sergio Massa of the ruling Peronist coalition will face right-wing libertarian candidate Javier Milei. Today we continue our Argentina Special with an interview with Maristella Svampa, sociologist, activist, writer and professor at the National...

Why are settler attacks increasing in the West Bank? The whole world is currently watching Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, armed Israeli settlers and soldiers are taking revenge for the Hamas attacks of October 7. In recent weeks, there has been a marked increase in ethnic cleansing, harassment, attacks, and forced displacement of Palestinians from their v...

Crisis and class struggle in Argentina (Interview with Hernán Ouviña)On November 19th, Argentine voters will return to the polls for the second round of the country's presidential election. In the runoff, Argentina's current Economy Minister Sergio Massa of the ruling Peronist coalition, who received 36 percent of the vote in the first round, will face Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian and po...

Israel-Gaza war: Is a regional conflict immanent? Two days after the Hamas attacks of October 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s military operations in Gaza will “change the Middle East” and that “Israel is mobilizing for war, precisely as the United States mobilized after 9/11.” Regional tensions have been on the rise over the past three weeks. The U.S. deployed two a...

Israel-Palestine conflict: What Israel really wants Despite numerous negotiations, conferences and agreements, there has never been peace between Israel and the Palestinians following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. The past 75 years have been marked primarily by Israel's repression, violent displacement, and systematic dispossession of the local Palestinian population. The world has...

Argentina elections: Crisis, Milei and the left (Interview with Horacio Machado)On October 22, Argentinian voters head to the polls in a presidential election amid skyrocketing inflation and a severe social and economic crisis. Right-wing libertarian political outsider and self-described "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei took the lead in the August primaries. The Peronist ruling coalition, led by...

Argentina elections: Will an anarcho-capitalist win? Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Argentina on 22 October 2023. The primary elections that took place in mid-August ended with quite a surprise. The political newcomer Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian, came in first place. He now has a chance of becoming Argentina’s next president. In a moment of national crisis, many Arge...

Israel-Palestine conflict and the imperial agenda of Western mediaThe media, mainly in the US but also in Europe, has largely misrepresented the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East. There is hardly any objective, balanced and critical coverage. Instead, we are witnessing an organized and systematic campaign to decontextualize the conflict, hide its underlying causes and sway public op...

Where is football headed? Early this year, the Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo announced his transfer to the Saudi club Al-Nassr, making him the world's highest-paid athlete, thanks to his yearly salary of over $200 million. In August, another famous football player, Neymar from Brazil, confirmed his transfer to the Saudi club Al-Hilal. Neymar will make at least $160 million a year...

Is Austria still neutral? Austria has pursued a policy of neutrality for 68 years. In July 2023, the country joined the European Sky Shield, an air and missile defense initiative, launched by Germany in late 2022 in the context of the Ukraine war. 17 of the 19 countries participating in the project are NATO members or applicants. The decision to join Sky Shield has raised questions about the futur...

The European Sky Shield is a military project launched by Germany in August 2022 in the context of the Ukraine war. The aim is to build a ground-based, unified European air and missile defense system in the next five years that is capable of intercepting drones and missiles. Once completed, Sky Shield will be integrated into NATO’s air and missile defense system. To date, nineteen European states...