Reflectii

The country’s former foreign minister explains the powderkeg that is three leaders in a cannot-lose standoff

BETWEEN 2016 AND 2022, Western diplomats and journalists frequently asked Ukrainian officials what Ukraine was prepared to concede to Russia for peace. This was more than mere curiosity. It was the tip of a policy iceberg submersed in the belief that peace could be achieved by sacrificing Ukrainian interests to Russia. Look at the headlines since February 2022 to see where this approach has led.

Reason, reality, and the fate of philosophy

For most of its history, Western philosophy tried to use pure reason to know reality. But, argues Robert Pippin, Heidegger showed that this entire philosophical tradition was doomed, due to its mistaken assumption that what it is to be a feature of reality is to be available to rational thought. This assumption, which culminated in Hegel, led philosophy to forget the meaningfulness of reality for humans, and so left us lost. Only by recognising that we encounter reality not primarily through reason, but through the ways in which it matters for us, can philosophy recover the world as something meaningful for humans.

Bataille pour le cerveau…

Une des formes d’attaque de l’esprit humain a été développée cette dernière décennie et a été ouvertement transformée en arme en 2020 sous le vocable de «guerre cognitive». Mon argument, exprimé dans le chapitre 5 de mon livre ««Covid-19», Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy», est que les capacités cognitives publiques furent délibérément attaquées en 2020-21. J’explique ici les origines et le développement de la doctrine de «guerre cognitive» de l’OTAN et comment elle peut être utilisée à des fins de gestion de la perception.

Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?

And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel 1984, published in 1949, a year before his death and just as the Cold War (a term he was the first to use in an essay in October 1945) was getting underway, our world, too, seems to be heading for a nightmarish future, I suspect that — were he capable of returning to this planet of ours — he wouldn’t disagree with you for a moment. Phew! Sorry for such a long, complicated sentence, but little wonder given the way our world is now tying itself in knots. Yes, just last week, with the election of climate-change denier and (to steal from Orwell) our very own Big Brother Donald Trump as president of the United States (again!), we just paved the way for an instant all-American nightmare. Still, even without him, the world was anything but peachy keen.

The Clock Is Ticking On Sub-Saharan Africa’s Urgent Job Creation Challenge – Analysis

As the rest of the world grapples with aging populations, Africa’s population is booming. By 2030, half of all new entrants into the global labor force will come from sub-Saharan Africa, requiring the creation of up to 15 million new jobs annually.

Aujourd’hui, après les 4 ans que nous venons de vivre, je vous invite à suivre les traces de Claire Séverac en prenant 15 minutes pour écouter ou réécouter (je l’avais déjà partagée il y a quelques temps) l’odyssée de la dépopulation globale.

Le mot « civilisation » est utilisé librement comme si sa signification était évidente. Mais le contenu du concept de « civilisation » varie et on peut se demander s’il est même possible de parler de « civilisation » au singulier.

Le terme « État profond » est de plus en plus utilisé aujourd’hui dans le discours politique, passant du journalisme au langage politique commun. Cependant, le terme lui-même devient quelque peu vague, avec l’émergence de différentes interprétations. Il est donc essentiel d’examiner de plus près le phénomène décrit comme « État profond » et de comprendre quand et où ce concept est entré en usage pour la première fois.

issued by the NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. 10 July 2024