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Emmanuel Macron giflé par un homme lors d'un déplacement dans la Drôme •8 juin 2021 FRANCE 24 Emmanuel Macron a reçu une gifle de la part d'un homme mardi, alors qu'il était en déplacement dans la Drôme, pour la deuxième étape de son "tour de France des territoires". Emmanuel Macron a été giflé par un homme lors d'un déplacement à Tain-l'Hermitage, dans la Drôme, mardi 8 juin, à la mi-journée, a confirmé l'entourage du chef de l'État, en attestant (...)

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Photo Image:  FilmDaily Orientation My Purpose A few months ago, I wrote an article titled “Political and Spiritual Cults“. My purpose was to show the commonalties among all cults, whether they are political, spiritual or psychological. In this article I want to narrow the focus to discuss a left-wing psychological cult, the Sullivanians, a countercultural […]

This story is one of those that has always been perfectly obvious to me, living in Moscow, Russia, but, what with the news streams from around the world so focused this last year on the US, Donald Trump and COVID-19, this very visceral trend sort of got ignored. This trend is the extreme level of […]

Lula da Silva has confirmed that he wants to be a presidential candidate in Brazil’s 2022 election. This was expected. After being freed from a process of lawfare intended to curtail his political career, Lula has reemerged on the national scene with full force. The Datafolha Institute has published a poll according to which Lula […]
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Colombia has been burning with the flames of resistance ever since a national strike began on April 28, 2021. The initial impetus for the large-scale demonstrations came from a regressive tax reform. The tax bill came into being due to the necessity of the Colombian state to push down the rising fiscal deficit, which could […]
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From the outset, some clarification is needed regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a ‘conflict’. Neither is it a ‘dispute’ nor ‘sectarian violence’ nor even a war in the traditional sense. It is not a conflict, because Israel is an occupying power […]
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1970: Weeks When Decades Happen I was 20 years old in 1968, a good year to be 20 years old. Between the spring of 1970 and the spring of 1972 there were weeks when decades happened for me. In the space of one year: I moved out of my parents’ house in Jamaica, Queens to […]
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Une situation de quasi guerre civile à Lod ? C'est en tout cas ce qui y ressemble quand on voit les images des affrontements entre arabes et juifs. Pour mieux comprendre la situation il faut d'abord resituer la chronologie de ce qui se passe en Israël : Voici quelques images de l'esplanade des mosquées où les violences ont été intenses ces derniers jours. Dans ce contexte de fortes tensions à Jérusalem mais pas seulement, Israël a répliqué des dizaines de fois sur Gaza (...)

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Une situation de quasi guerre civile à Lod ? C'est en tout cas ce qui y ressemble quand on voit les images des affrontements entre arabes et juifs. Pour mieux comprendre la situation il faut d'abord resituer la chronologie de ce qui se passe en Israël : Voici quelques images de l'esplanade des mosquées où les violences ont été intenses ces derniers jours. Dans ce contexte de fortes tensions à Jérusalem mais pas seulement, Israël a répliqué des dizaines de fois sur Gaza (...)

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After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, North Carolina, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists would be wise to do the same about the far-right march that took place last week in Jerusalem. The […]
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