We have major problems to solve in this country. We suffer from opposition like a bag of earth stuck to our back. And an immense conflict that hangs over the world. We must face it seriously, with information, and not with a false plurality in the debates.
At this point in history, it seems necessary to point the finger at disinformation as a key factor in the formation of a fearful, bloated and submissive society – for the most part – which does not react to the great conflicts that grip us. It is difficult to believe such a level of disinterest that we see in these times of conflict.
The military escalation undertaken by Netanyahu’s Israel has reached a critical point: it lays the foundations for an expanded war in the Middle East and beyond. The consequences of this race to the bottom even reach the Iranian oil industry, which Israel plans to attack. Joe Biden, the president in the process of forced retirement, has set Iranian nuclear facilities as a red line! Nothing else that we know. Israel has also already surrounded the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria with bombs and Russia has ordered its citizens to leave Israel. The powerful blocks prepare for what is to come. All this coincides with the North American elections, which will take place in a month. And already, with the attacks of Zelensky and his allies directly on Russian soil in the other great war, in the north.
An attack on Iranian oil companies – the third largest crude oil reserves in the world – would cause an international economic crisis. In this area you also need to pay attention to the movements already made by the blocks. EU countries allow Brussels to apply tariffs on Chinese electric cars, aligning with the United States. And Joe Biden proposed new regulations banning the circulation of certain types of vehicles made with technology linked to China and Russia.
It will be a year since the Hamas attack on the Reim Music Festival in Israel, one of the deadliest in decades: 1,300 dead and 3,300 injured; 291 soldiers killed and 199 hostages. It took them a year to prepare it. Israel knew this and did nothing to stop it, because – they say – it did not give it credibility, which is a key fact of history. And surprising: in addition to its famous intelligence services, the United States alerted Netanyahu in advance and the Egyptian government warned him a week before.
The response was brutal. Ten days later, the UN warned of a lack of bags to deposit so many bodies in Gaza. Israel’s “right to defend itself” has not only cost thousands of lives and caused countless injuries and damage, but has also spread it to other countries with more killings and identical methods. In 16 days, Israel killed 1,300 people and displaced a million citizens in Lebanon, whose exit route to Syria was also bombed. This has always been its clear goal: its supremacy in the region, for which it benefits – at least in the measures taken so far – from American assistance from both parties and the EU.
The Democratic Party’s position is obvious, but let us recall Trump’s far from innocent moves before leaving the presidency when he induced a new conception of alliances in the region. Trump approved the peace agreement between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. And recognized the sovereignty of Morocco in Western Sahara. It wasn’t random at all. And there were a series of compromises. In his own plan, in a business way, he knows that Lebanon and Iran are going after Palestine, but Iran is by no means alone.
Important entities are helping Israel. Netanyahu’s army uses weapons from companies such as Boeing, Day & Zimmerman, Raytheon-RTX, General Dynamics, Leonardo, Oshkosh and Rheinmetall in attacks against civilians, who in turn receive support from financial companies, particularly Spanish, like the magnificent report by Olga Rodríguez in the scoop “Who sells and exports the weapons that Israel uses in its massacres”.
The immense conflict, full of ramifications, requires rigorous information, even to prevent or prepare for its consequences, but we continue with the usual inertia. If there’s a talk show that can try it unconditionally, it’s TVE’s “59 Seconds.” But this Thursday evening was an example of the following in participant quotas worth stopping at. It is headed by a journalist of undeniable prestige: Gemma Nierga. He contacted the region’s correspondent who is doing her best in excellent work: Almudena Ariza. There were several very competent journalists, Olga Rodríguez, precisely, in the lead with her deep knowledge of the subject.
But Celia Villalobos and María Claver were also there and it was so squeaky that we turned off the television. Topics, hoaxes, disinformation in the past and present of the conflict. Trying to erase -Villalobos- the role of Aznar in this disastrous photo of the Azores and the Spanish participation in the invasion of Iraq, putting Spain in the crosshairs of the terrorism they fueled and for for which we paid so dearly for the 11M. We can’t turn everything into a bar counter or a stretcher discussion object. Serious topics deserve serious analysis. It was as if, for example, they placed a Nobel Prize winner in medicine to debate with two healers at the table of a flea market. And this happens daily on any subject. That’s the problem.
They say it is for the good of the plurality. What plurality? The one who falsely protects the spectacle of social gatherings. Give us arguments from expert professionals, not political opinions aligned with the aggressor side that currently (and so many times) shares the genocide it is committing. Those who understand the massacre of millions of people and who ignore international agreements to commit war crimes by depriving them of water, electricity, food, health care and all kinds of assistance, to make a prey to epidemic diseases and immense suffering and sorrow. As Olga Rodríguez said in the already extended idea: “No one will be able to say that they did not know”.
I read that “59 Seconds” continued with major themes: violence in football, bullfighting, the supposed correlation between immigration and crime. Fewer than 400,000 people saw it, or 5% of the public. This deserved much more attention, but sometimes the homage to what they call plurality works against good content. This plurality is rarely real, and not in percentage. The reality is usually not 50/50. Without taking into account the other inertias which have already shaped society.
On the other hand, La Resistencia, by David Broncano, rises like foam, an ingenious and friendly program, one of those from which you should also relax and even enrich yourself with other content. The drift can, however, come when the public receives as the discovery of the century the presence of two stars of the heart expelled from their chain which have been able to recycle themselves. Love them every day. Even enthusiastic opinion columns were written in serious newspapers. It’s like confirming that goats like to climb the mountain to look for grass without hope. Many Spaniards are fascinated by celebrities in itself.
We have major problems to solve in this country. We suffer from political opposition like a bag of earth stuck to our backs with an invasion of wasps around us. And an immense conflict that hangs over the world. We must face it seriously, with information, and not with a false plurality in the debates.
Seen over time, biased gatherings have caused enormous damage. They were massively chosen barely 15 years ago, when the great convulsions of the crisis of capitalism and the citizen response were triggered (Arab Spring, 15M and its international extensions), today practically deactivated. The rallies were an inexpensive way – generally – to fill the grids and extraordinarily effective in dissuading information and creating self-serving opinion. They have constituted, in Spain, a formidable platform for the growth of the extreme right. It is now a question of protecting a genocide and the megalomaniac ambition to change the world situation. It is important to understand that with a few exceptions, not all gatherings are this disastrous, but a good portion of them are.
And the company forgets that it still has the final say, even the very basic ability to turn a connector on or off.
