Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and MintPress News based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

Mientras se abre el telón sobre Idlib y la guerra siria, Estados Unidos y Rusia se enfrentan para el acto final

El tiempo corre a medida que Rusia aliada construye sus fuerzas en alta mar en una advertencia a Estados Unidos para que no juegue en ningún movimiento de último momento para evitar lo que Moscú llamó la inminente "liquidación" de la provincia de Idlib controlada por los rebeldes.

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MOSCOW -- Tensions on a global scale are mounting once again in Syria, as forces aligned with Damascus prepare to wipe out the last-remaining pocket of anti-government resistance in Idlib, the overwhelming bulk of which consists of terrorist al-Qaeda affiliates. The clock is ticking as allied Russia builds its forces offshore in a warning to the

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Con la retirada formal de UNASUR, el duque de Colombia socava la resistencia de LatAm a Washington

UNASUR ha estado inundado de crisis desde abril, cuando Colombia junto con Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Perú anunciaron la suspensión temporal de sus respectivas membresías en la organización.

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U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Colombia’s new right-wing President Ivan Duque has announced that he will begin the formal process of ending his country’s participation in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), making good on his campaign promise to remove Colombia from a regional body he sees as acting in league with the elected government of Venezuelan

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La muerte de McCain dibuja pocas lágrimas en Moscú, mientras Rusia se inclina ante un enemigo jurado

McCain se obsesionó con su actitud resentida hacia Moscú, y su agresividad solo creció cuando Putin cumplió su promesa de no comportarse como un vasallo estadounidense.

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MOSCOW - It is utterly predictable that while U.S. news media has been flooded by heartfelt eulogies from politicians over the death of Senator John McCain, the reaction in Russia has largely been been the polar opposite. It would hardly be an exaggeration to note that Russian state and media figures have, in a figurative sense, danced on the

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Beijing Notes Signs of US Decline Behind Bloated New Pentagon Budget

The emerging multipolar global arrangement has convinced observers that the United States is undeniably confronting an inevitable decline in its status as the world’s foremost hegemonic power.

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BEIJING – China has expressed serious concern about the new United States military budget, which explicitly notes the U.S.’ “long-term strategic competition with China” as a top priority and raises the government’s annual investment in the military to an unprecedented $716 billion – an exponentially higher budget than that of any other defense

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South Korea’s Moon Steers Toward Inter-Korean Unity While Wind from Washington Blows in His Face

At the height of U.S. power following Japan’s defeat, Washington itself wrote the rules of the game for the Korean Peninsula — whether others are willing to continue playing along indefinitely remains another question entirely.

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Photos showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korea President Moon Jae-in are displayed to demand withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korean Peninsula near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 13, 2018. Ahn Young-joon | AP

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in marked the anniversary of Korea’s independence from Japanese colonialism with a robust call for the economic integration of North and South Korea as a means to achieve “survival and development” as well as “true liberation” for the long-divided nation. The announcement – which focused on

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Crisis entre Estados Unidos y Turquía: ambiciones poco realistas y caos multipolar subyacen en el último drama del Medio Oriente

Mientras los "hombres fuertes" Trump y Erdogan se enfrentan a la hostilidad geopolítica en evolución, a gran parte del mundo le preocupa quedar atrapado en los escombros económicos y políticos de la disputa de los amantes violentos de los aliados de la OTAN.

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President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 11, 2018. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

ANKARA, TURKEY (Analysis) – The United States’ economic war on Turkey over the detention of a U.S. pastor is showing no sign of winding down any time soon. Instead, the long-brewing row between the two countries could mark a significant break in relations between Washington and Ankara, which has long played the role of a U.S.-loyal guard at NATO’s

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Estrategia estadounidense-egipcia-israelí: bombardear a los palestinos para que acepten el "Plan de paz" de Trump

Desde que comenzaron las protestas a lo largo de la valla israelí que rodea la Franja de Gaza el 30 de marzo, los israelíes han lanzado numerosos bombardeos contra objetivos civiles palestinos, exacerbando la grave y actual crisis humanitaria en la región.

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Palestinian mourners carry the coffin of 23-year-old pregnant mother Enas Khamash and her daughter Bayan, whose picture is on the coffin, during their funeral in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Aug. 9, 2018. Khamash and her daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. Adel Hana | AP

GAZA CITY - The Gaza Strip seemed to maintain a tenuous calm Tuesday after a de facto ceasefire between Palestinian factions and Tel Aviv ended a week of heightened violence that saw the Israeli military pound civilian targets across the coastal enclave. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that the Israeli assault has raised

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