France’s new Education Minister, Gabriel Attal, launched the 2023 school year with a thunderous announcement: “I decided it will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school,” he said, in the name of a preposterous conception of secularism (or laïcité) adopted by President Emmanuel Macron. This “abaya ban” is a serious violation of […]
by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star: This story was shared by one of our regular readers who wishes to remain completely anonymous, so our thanks go out to “X” for spotting and sharing it. As the blog headline notes, it concerns the test of a central bank digital currency across international borders, which is […]
The Franco-German compromise was put forward by the two countries on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of their bilateral friendship (Élysée) treaty in January 2003.
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire […]
Pendant des décennies, la France a maintenu le contrôle sur ses anciennes colonies africaines en soutenant les hommes forts locaux. Les récents coups d’État au Niger et au Gabon contre des gouvernements accusés d’être alignés à Paris montrent que l’empire français informel se délite. Source : Jacobin, Harrison StetlerTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises […]
Les réformateurs néolibéraux qualifient souvent le modèle social français de fardeau insoutenable pour l’entreprenariat privé. Pourtant, au cours des dernières décennies, les aides publiques aux entreprises ont presque triplé en pourcentage du PIB, ce qui montre que les interventions de l’État soutiennent de plus en plus les profits privé. Source : Cole Stangler, Jacobin Traduit […]
Electric car sales have hit a bump in the road after demand from private motorists fell sharply by 14.3% last month, leading to calls for subsidies for electric vehicles.
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During all the furious arguments about the cancellation of HS2, why has nobody mentioned the utter stupidity of having high-speed trains in a tiny country like England, asks David Craig.
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Dumile Feni (South Africa), Figure Studies, 1970. At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration, which, amongst other issues, raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council. To make the UN Security Council (UNSC) ‘more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient, and to […]
Shefa Salem al-Baraesi (Libya), Drown on Dry Land, 2019. Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the […]
