Claudia Aranda

The contemporary world seems trapped in a machinery designed for forgetting. A machinery made of foolish algorithms that reward banality and one-minute trending topics, while rendering invisible the struggles that should shake consciences. The solidarity flotilla that sailed toward Gaza…

October 1, 2025 The dawn was long and dark. On board the Global Sumud Flotilla, bodies stiffened from the vigil; souls, from certainty. That last night before reaching Gaza was etched in the memory of those who could not sleep:…

The Israeli navy has intercepted the flotilla on the high seas, halting its advance toward the coast of Gaza. Several ships in the convoy, including the Alma, Suri, and Theara, have been boarded by Israeli military personnel, according to reports…

October 1, 2025, 09:36 hours in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Global Sumud Flotilla is about 90 nautical miles—around 170 kilometers—from the coast of Gaza. Still in international waters, but within the “red zone,” the maritime corridor where previous flotillas were…

The “No Music For Genocide” campaign is not an isolated gesture of indignation; it is a cultural intervention that reopens an ancient and urgent question: what do we do with truth when it appears before us? Do we make it…

Just 150 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip, the Global Sumud Flotilla—comprising nearly 50 boats and humanitarian activists from 44 countries—sails under maximum alert following the official announcement that it will be intercepted by the Israeli navy. The mission, which…

Italy has done the unthinkable: turning a naval deployment into an act of political prestidigitation. It sent frigates for the photo op, to display before European public opinion an image of humanitarian commitment, but at the first brush with Israel’s…

The digital reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 skull, discovered in Hubei in 1990 and dated between 940,000 and 1.1 million years ago, constitutes an epistemic event that goes beyond the merely archaeological. Precisely this week, an international team of paleoanthropologists…

In the final hours of September 29, the Global Sumud Flotilla is at a critical point in the eastern Mediterranean, sailing at the threshold of waters under Israeli control and brushing the international line between orange and red alert over…

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls—could mark a turning point in the history of human knowledge. What makes this discovery truly monumental is not only…