Belén Fernández
Belén Fernández is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, released by Verso in 2011. She is a member of the Jacobin Magazine editorial board, and her articles have appeared in the London Review of Books blog, Al Akhbar English and many other publications.
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Views Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Has the New York Times Declared War on Iran? Once upon a time, the United States launched a war on Iraq with the help of false allegations of WMD. The corporate media—and most memorably the US newspaper of record, the New York Times —thrust itself onto the PR frontlines by presenting as reality the unhinged claims of the George W Bush... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 22, 2019 Cold Warrior Elliott Abrams Returns to Battle in Venezuela Shortly after right-wing figure Juan Guaido auto-proclaimed himself interim president of Venezuela in January - to the immediate applause of US President Donald Trump - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the appointment of a special envoy to "help the Venezuelan people fully restore... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 06, 2019 How Capitalism Is Killing Us Hitchhiking through Venezuela some years ago, a friend and I availed ourselves of the novel opportunity to receive free medical care at health clinics established by late President Hugo Chavez , a much-vilified enemy of the international capitalist order. I had never experienced the danger of free... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 21, 2018 'Barbed Wire-Plus': Borders Know No Love During a Thanksgiving Day teleconference with members of the US armed forces, US President Donald Trump took the opportunity to exult over the intensified militarisation of the nation's southern border in response to the US-bound Central American migrant and refugee caravan: "We have the concertina... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 29, 2018 The Inconvenient Truth About the US-Bound Migrant Caravan In mid-October, what has come to be known as the " migrant caravan " departed Honduras for a weeks-long trek through Guatemala and Mexico to the United States. The size of the caravan has fluctuated, but the United Nations calculated that, as of 22 October, some 7,200 people had joined up - many of... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 22, 2018 The West Enabled Khashoggi's Demise - Not To Mention All the Other Saudi Crimes On 2 October, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , a contributing columnist for the Washington Post, entered Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again. After multiple denials, Saudi Arabia confirmed on 19 October that Khashoggi had been killed inside the building. In a statement on... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Trump's Astronomically Misguided 'Space Force' Speaking to an audience of military personnel in California earlier this year, United States President Donald Trump unveiled his scheme to create a sixth branch of the US military: the "space force". According to Trump's version of the story, the idea had unfolded as follows: "I was saying it the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 08, 2018 A Nicaraguan Spring or Imperial Spring Cleaning? In April, Nicaragua saw intense clashes between protesters and government forces that reportedly left dozens dead. The protests were initially set off by proposed adjustments to the national social security system, which have now been cancelled by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Journalist and... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 18, 2018 Iraq, 15 Years On: A Toxic US Legacy Fifteen years ago this month, the United States spearheaded a fantastically bloody war on Iraq as part of its ongoing effort to ensure the Iraqi nation's perpetual misery. Straight-up carnage aside, there were some other more trivial yet still "spectacularly unsavoury" results of the invasion, as... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 05, 2018 Is Mexico The Most Dangerous Country On Earth? In 2006, Mexico launched a war on drugs with the fervent backing of its ever-helpful neighbour to the north, the United States of America. Now a bit more than a decade later, some 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed thus far as a result, with an additional 30,000 or more disappeared... Read more |