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The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

-Chris Hedges

Yuval Abraham, director de ‘NAZA’: “¿Cómo puede alguien tener una imagen de sí mismo de buena persona y seguir participando en la matanza en Gaza?”

Gregorio Belinchón © El País
October 9, 2026

Cuando la pantalla de su iPhone se enciende, el rostro del cineasta Yuval Abraham (Be’er Sheva, 31 años) aparece risueño, con gafas y sin ápice de cansancio, a pesar de llevar toda la mañana del viernes dando entrevistas internacionales. No se sabe en qué país europeo vive ahora escondido (¿Italia? ¿Reino Unido?) tras las amenazas que ha recibido en Israel, empezando por el Gobierno que lidera Benjamin Netanyahu, tras el estreno en el festival de Venecia de su documental NAZA, codirigido por Rachel Szor. Ambos ya ganaron el Oscar al mejor largometraje documental con No Other Land, que también codirigieron Basel Adra y Hamdan Ballal, y si aquel filme supuso un terremoto político y social, NAZA ha superado esa conmoción.

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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

-Cornel West

Moral Man and Immoral Society? New Discussions of New Realities

Daniel Warner © Counterpunch
October 9, 2026

The eminent theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote about Moral Man and Immoral Society almost a century ago. But what happens when an immoral man leads the United States? And what happens when our society has computers and algorithms questioning whether machines can be moral? In our politically polarized world, we are used to hearing the Evangelical Right use religious language. So we should take notice when public intellectuals like Fintan O’Toole and Susan Neiman use moral language to describe the Trump era. Even Tom Friedman in the New York Times refers to Trump as “morally warped.” And when questions about AI’s overwhelming humanity become questions about morality itself, traditional secular language seems inadequate to describe the AI revolution.

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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

-Wilhelm Reich

Literature of al-Andalus

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The literature of al-Andalus, also known as Andalusi literature (Arabic: الأدب الأندلسي, al-adab al-andalusī),[1][2] was produced in al-Andalus, or Islamic Iberia, from the Muslim conquest in 711 to either the Catholic conquest of Granada in 1492 or the expulsion of the Moors ending in 1614. Andalusi literature was written primarily in Arabic, but also in Hebrew, Latin, and Romance.

Poetry was considered the prime literary genre in Arabic.[3] Poetic forms such as the qaṣīda and maqāma were adopted from the Mashriq or Muslim East, while forms of strophic poetry such as the muwaššaḥ and its kharja as well as the popular zajal in Andalusi vernacular Arabic were developed in al-Andalus.[3] Andalusi strophic poetry had an impact on poetic expression in Western Europe and the wider Muslim world.[4]

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A buffoon feels inferior yet superior to others, hating those they wronged.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

La Administración de Trump sanciona al Tribunal Penal Internacional horas después del Nobel de la Paz a una de sus exjuezas

Iker Seisdedos, Isabel Ferrer © El País
October 9, 2026

La Administración de Trump impuso este viernes nuevas sanciones al Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI), horas después de que una de sus exjuezas ganara el Premio Nobel de la Paz, galardón que el presidente de Estados Unidos ha declarado repetidamente que merece.

El TPI, que ya había recibido golpes previos de Washington en forma de castigos económicos a 13 de sus jueces y fiscales, condenó inmediatamente las nuevas sanciones y difundió un comunicado en el que avisa de que estas no impedirán que el tribunal, con sede en La Haya, continúe con su labor.

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