Author: M Barbu

Quand la honte devient authenticité et que le dysfonctionnement devient défiance.

De nombreux Chinois sont sincèrement perplexes face à une question toute simple : pourquoi les Américains n’ont-ils pas honte ?

Il arrive un moment où les discours sur les «valeurs européennes» doivent être confrontés à leurs propres contradictions. L’Union européenne se présente comme une sentinelle inflexible face au nazisme, au fascisme, à l’antisémitisme et au révisionnisme historique. Elle invoque la mémoire de la Shoah, condamne la glorification des collaborateurs et prétend défendre une Europe définitivement vaccinée contre les démons de son passé. Mais que valent ces principes lorsqu’ils se heurtent aux intérêts géopolitiques de Bruxelles et de ses alliés ?

The ongoing war in the Middle East has revealed how the process of globalization has contributed to the weaponization of interdependence.

Globalization, a process that intensified in the 1990s, was expected to bring the world closer than ever. One of its significant consequences was the interdependence among state actors and non-state actors based on the expectation that such interdependence—financially, socially, and politically—would raise the costs of conflict, thereby necessitating cooperation over conflict and concord over discord. But recent events have put a spotlight on the vulnerabilities of such interdependence.

For the second time in a generation, official development assistance — as conventionally measured by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — is collapsing.

In the 1990s, ideologically driven development assistance declined after the end of the Cold War. In the 2020s, the major donors have shown a preference for hard power over soft power channelling more funds into defense, at the direct expense of foreign aid. Spending on immigration from conflict-torn states has also drawn funds away from traditional aid budgets.

Sovereign nations face an imperialism that, cornered by its own contradictions, is forging ahead through neocolonialism, armed dispossession, and media manipulation. It is crucial to maintain analytical acuity, organize a response, and not yield an inch in the ideological struggle against oligarchic barbarity.