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''Rebelión'' is a
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, started in Spain at the end of 1996 by a group of journalists. It contains scientific and opinion articles covering topics such as current affairs,
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, and resistance to globalization. Texts by, and translations into Spanish from, authors such as
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Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a ...
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Marta Harnecker Marta Harnecker (1937 – 14 June 2019) was a Chilean journalist, author, psychologist, sociologist, and Marxist intellectual. She studied the analysis of labor movements and acted as an advisor to the government of Cuba, and worked with left-w ...
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Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of le ...
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, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Anguita, Vicenç Navarro and Ralph Nader have been included in ''Rebelión''.


Organization

Rebelión emerged in 1996, developed from Spain by a nonprofit group of journalists who boosted another model of communication not dependent on large media or
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conditionings. The site does not have physical location and works through organization by sections with a responsible assigned by sectio

The ideological orientation of published contents is based on: According to their promoters, it is an alternative means which publishes news that are not considered important by traditional media. Furthermore, it tries to give a different news treatment to "showing the interests that economic and political powers among the capitalist world hide in order to preserve their privileges and current status". It rests on
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and people who work to "change the world from a radically different, more just, equal and balanced perspective". The web site content is hosted on the servers of the ''Institute of Political Studies for Latin America and Africa'' ( IEPALA), Gloobal.net. Rebelión has a team of
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translators. Those who translate texts into other languages number, according to the website, about thirty people. Julio_Anguita_2014b_(cropped).jpg, Julio Anguita


Contents

The website mostly contains opinion articles, as well as news, interviews and reviews about current politic, social, economic and cultural themes all over the world. There is an especial emphasis in Latin America and Near East. The highlight is the capitalism critics, the international American politics and the Zionism. Rebelión contains some sections: Free Knowledge, Culture, Social Ecology, Economy, Lies and Media, Opinion and Another World is Possible. It also has geographical sections focusing on Africa, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the USA, Spain, Europe, Iraq, Mexico, Palestine, the Near East, and Venezuela. Rebelión contains digital books and texts for free download in its section Free Books. The texts with an original Rebelión source has a license
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Acknowledgment nonprofit without derivative works. However, sometimes the text traduction license of famous writers it does not provide or it is a source unknown.


Relevance

The website has a
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site in 7, according to
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. Alexa placed it at about rank 22,000 in September 2009. Rebelión has around 150,000 page reads per day.
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places Rebelión as the most read alternative Spanish information website in the world, with users from more than 50 countries.


Publications

''Rebelión'' has published two collective books, with the help of their regular columnists, who ceded their texts for the edition in paper. ''El caso Venezuela 11-04-02'' 'Translation'': The Venezuelan Case 11-04-02 The following journalists participated in this edition:
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(director of '' Le Monde Diplomatique''),
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''), Enrique Ortega ('' Resumen Latinoamericano''), Antonio Maira ('' Cádiz Rebelde''), Eva Bjorklund (Revista ''Kuba'' de Suecia), and the intellectuals Santiago Alba Rico y Carlos Fernández Liria. The second work was entitled ''Washington contra el mundo'' 'Translation'': Washington against the World This book, dealing with recent events, was a selection of 24 articles written by 18 authors from 7 different countries, who regularly collaborate with ''Rebelión''.
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James Petras James Petras (born 17 January 1937) is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published on politic ...
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Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of le ...
, Vázquez Montalbán, Carlos Taibo,
Julio Anguita Julio Anguita González (21 November 194116 May 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was Mayor of Córdoba from 1979 to 1986, coordinator of United Left (IU) between 1989 and 1999, and Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from ...
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, Michel Collon, Gary Lupp,
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, John Brown, Santiago Alba Rico,
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, Simón Royo, Pascual Serrano, Roni Ben Efrat and
Javier Barreda Javier Alberto Barreda Jara (13 December 1966 – 3 June 2019) was a Peruvian sociologist, writer and public administrator. Born in Lima, he was educated at Cayetano Heredia University and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He served as the ...
participated in this selection. The book has a prologue by the journalist and writer Javier Ortiz and was published by Editorial Akal. Another book is ''La batalla de los intelectuales: nuevo discurso de las armas y las letras'' ("The battle of intellectuals: new discourse about weapons and letters") by the
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Alfonso Sastre. In its second edition, it included several texts about the debate developed in ''Rebelión'' after its first edition.


Controversy

According to Rebelión, the direction of the Spanish newspaper ''
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'' wrote an email to the journalist Pascual Serrano demanding the withdrawal of an article entitled "''El País contra Chávez, fuego a discreción''" for violation of their
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. Pascual Serrano's attorney replied that "does not reproduce the article, but it makes a quotation of it protected by the article 32 of Law 23/2006 of 7 July, by amending the Revised Intellectual Property Act, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996 of 12 April. According to Rebelión, El Pais maintained its position regarding to the violation of copyright, and Pascual Serrano his, keeping the published article. In June 2008, the
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of the site was included in the
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, which produced an intense internal debate in the encyclopedia. The decision was reported by some media Wikipedia: ni libre ni de izquierdas
Diario Gara - 29 June 2008. and debated in Wikimania 2009 after
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said he did not agree with the domain inclusion in that blacklist."A War of Words Over Wikipedia's Spanish Version"
''The New York Times'', 27 August 2009


Bibliography

* Alegre, Luis (ed.) (2002). Periodismo y crimen. El caso Venezuela 11-04-02. Hondarribia, Guipúzcoa: Argitaletxe HIRU. OCLC 51607583. * Sastre, Alfonso (2003). La batalla de los intelectuales: nuevo discurso de las armas y las letras. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. OCLC 57469980. * Varios autores (2003). Washington contra el mundo. Madrid: Foca Ediciones. OCLC 52213854.


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External links

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