21 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Cita sacada del libro de Graham Allison (pag. 347). Mi opinión es que cada autor es un mundo y su recorrido sentimental en la construcción de una obra es único. Dudo seriamente que se pueda generalizar como hace Churchill. En cualquier caso, como tantas otra citas de Churchill, reales o inventadas, suena bien, tiene garra, invita a pensar. Por eso la comparto.
20 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Sir Richard Moore, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, spoke about the launch of a new dark web portal to recruit spies for the UK. Sep 19, 2025
REMARKS IN TURKISH
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is so good to be back in my second home, Turkey, a country in which my wife and I are privileged to have lived for eight years, most recently when I served as British Ambassador for four fascinating years from 2014 through 2017.
But my connection with Turkey started much earlier in 1989 when, as a young language student, I arrived in Istanbul to board with a Turkish family for several weeks to improve my newly learnt Turkish language. I fell in love with this marvellous country, its extraordinarily hospitable people, its fabulous cuisine and stunning combination of history and breathtaking scenery… and I fell in love with Besiktas football club! The bond with Turkey was cemented by the arrival of my daughter, born here in Istanbul, a true Istanbullu.
But I didn’t just choose Istanbul for this speech for reasons of sentiment, I did so because, as it has been for centuries, Turkey is a nation of pivotal importance to the international system. On almost all of the issues that I have grappled with as Chief of MI6, Turkey has been a key player.
20 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Asher Rogers holds an image of Jimmy Kimmel outside El Capitan Entertainment Centre, where the late-night show «Jimmy Kimmel Live!» is staged on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
NEW YORK (AP) — Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian satirist whose “Daily Show”-like program was canceled after the military seized the once pro-democracy government, watched the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel with an immediate sense of familiarity.
“My Fellow American Citizens,” Youssef wrote on X. “Welcome to my world.”
Youssef’s show skewering public figures led to a criminal investigation in 2013 after complaints that he had insulted then-President Mohammed Morsi. When a military coup followed, pressure on Youssef intensified. He announced that the climate in Egypt was “not suitable for a political satire program.” Youssef fled the country and resettled in the United States.
In all the stunning things about ABC’s swift removal of Kimmel, its longtime late-night host and Oscars-hosting face of the network, perhaps the least surprising was that a comedian was at the center of a battle over free speech.
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18 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Los Archivos Secretos del NO-DO guardan tesoros inéditos. ¿Por qué el nodo no publicó el estreno de El Cid o una visita de Carmen Polo a Portugal?
Sinopsis
En la Filmoteca Española hay más de 6000 latas con películas del nodo que no vieron la luz. ¿Por qué se ocultaron? Un equipo de TVE hemos tenido acceso a Los Archivos Secretos del NO-DO para explorar todo este material. En este segundo capítulo descubrimos que incluso imágenes de apariencia banal pueden contener trazos de la represión franquista; por ejemplo, las del título “Agrupación de Hombres No Demasiado Altos”. ¿Por qué no llegaron a los cines? Descubrimos que Carmen Polo, la mujer de Franco, también tiene una lata a su nombre en los almacenes ocultos de la Filmoteca. Su viaje a Lisboa en el año 1958 nunca llegó a proyectarse ¿Por qué? También rescatamos otras grabaciones aparentemente más ligeras, como el estreno de la película El Cid en Madrid. Cuesta entender que se quedase fuera del nodo la noticia de Charlton Heston presentando una película sobre uno de los grandes iconos de la historia española… e ídolo del Generalísimo. Tratamos de resolver el misterio de por qué quedaron en un cajón.
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17 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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A new report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in «the strongest and most authoritative UN finding to date».
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
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15 septiembre, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Briefing | Population implosion
Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think
Demography sneaks up on you
«In the past”, says Furkan Kayabasoglu, an obstetrician in Istanbul, “I would deliver a couple’s first baby and then their second or even a third.” These days, however, “one and done” parents are becoming the norm. Out of every ten births Mr Kayabasoglu attends, only one is of a second child. “We can’t even reach the number of births needed to train new doctors,” he laments.
Last year Turkey’s total fertility rate (tfr), the number of births a typical woman will have in her lifetime if current patterns persist, fell to 1.48. That is well below the level needed to keep the population stable in the long run, which is about 2.1. It was also below what demographers had expected. The United Nations Population Division thought that Turkey’s tfr would not fall so low until at least the year 2100.
Slumping birthrates are not confined to Turkey. All over the world, in poor and middle-income countries as well as rich ones, fertility is in much sharper decline than most projections had expected.
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