Mauricio Herrera Kahn

Europe has entered a zone of energy fragility that is no longer temporary but structural. Its narrative as a global power is crumbling under a brutal reality: it depends on external decisions to keep its own lights on. Decades of…

“Hunger isn’t a lack of food, it’s too much power in too few hands.” “Whoever controls wheat controls peace. Whoever controls hunger controls the world.” Food is humanity’s oldest strategic resource and the most decisive one for the future. No…

“Artificial intelligence is not just algorithms or data. It is power, control, and sovereignty. The 21st century is being decided in servers, in submarine cables, and in digital laws that will determine who rules the new global order.” Artificial intelligence…

“Illegal power is neither periphery nor shadow; it is a global system fed by formal politics and the formal economy” — inspired by Lucía Dammert Illegal power is neither accident nor exception. It is a parallel system spanning continents, sustained…

“There is no ocean without an owner, no ice without a price. The melting opens routes, but also claims that are worth more than oil.” The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage, is a shipping route…

“It’s not a sea, it’s a chessboard. On its waters float aircraft carriers, millions of tons of goods, and the promise of an energy bounty. Here the great powers stare at themselves in the mirror of greed and the fear…

“The planet’s fate is no longer decided on isolated battlefields, but in the permanent tension between two giants competing for trade, technology, and power.” The 21st century has no fixed center. It shifts to the rhythm of the rivalry between…

“The 21st century does not belong to oil. It belongs to those who control lithium, copper, graphite and rare earths.” Oil dominated the 20th century through wars, dictatorships and corporations that shaped modern history. Today humanity enters a new era.…

“The world is moving toward decarbonization, but the promise of clean energy has become a battlefield among powers, corporations, and peoples who guard the raw materials.” The 20th century was ruled by oil. Wars, dictatorships, empires, and corporations grew in…

“The seas are free, but injustice wants to draw borders upon them” In the Mediterranean a symbol is sailing. Dozens of boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla are advancing towards Gaza to break a blockade that has lasted more than…