Reflectii

The benefits and losses among Russian enterprises are distributed extremely unevenly, the beginning of 2025 showed. Not only did the overall “pie” of profits become smaller, and it was divided differently – banks and some industries receiving military orders, but many other sectors lost. Trade has fallen significantly (the Russians began to spend less), bankruptcy threatens many construction companies, their employees write petitions to Putin, and coal mining in such a deep decline that you should not be surprised if the miners who were left without salaries again cling to the helmets at the White House, as in the 90’s. In some areas (for example, in Tverskaya) wage arrears increased sharply. For the fourth year of the war, even the proximity of companies to the state does not guarantee financial stability.

The British government last week published its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review. Led by former Defence Secretary and NATO secretary general Lord Robertson, the review outlines the major geopolitical challenges facing Britain and offers 62 recommendations to make the UK and its allies more secure. The government accepted all of them.

Le fait que l’Occident fut à ce point surpris, par l’intervention militaire russe en l’Ukraine, témoigne de la perte d’une capacité d’analyse obscurcie par l’arrogance inconsciente de ce que l’on appelle «l’occidentalisme». Le réel échappe à tel point à nos élites, qu’elles se vautrent dans une propagande totalement grotesque. C’est Ursula von der Leyen un des leaders de cet Occident, aveuglée par une russophobie parfaitement raciste, qui prétend officiellement que les Russes volent et démontrent des machines à laver pour récupérer les plus et équiper leurs missiles ! Quand on y réfléchit, force est de constater que cette vertigineuse imbécillité est partagée par les élites européennes et américaines et relayées sans aucun complexe par leurs systèmes médiatiques. Il ne faut pas se tromper, il y a certes un souci de propagande, une volonté d’imposer «un récit», mais ces gens croient. Et que dire de Macron sociopathe cocaïné, qui psalmodie d’ineptes rodomontades, en menaçant de déployer la pauvre armée française sur le territoire ukrainien pour affronter l’ours russe, avec ses 15 000 hommes mobilisables et ses huit jours de munitions ! À quoi s’ajoute également par un rapport au temps qui passe, envahi par ce que l’on appelle le «présentisme», c’est-à-dire la limitation de la mémoire historique à ce qui s’est passé la semaine précédente. Avec ces dirigeants, assurant le service de leurs oligarchies respectives et accompagnés par leurs petites bourgeoisies urbaines respectives, qui ont pris l’habitude de plaquer sur le réel une morale unilatérale et utilitaire pour nous faire oublier le monde qui existe en dehors de l’Occident et le caractère tragique de l’Histoire de ce dernier. Le but étant évidemment de proclamer la supériorité de la «civilisation occidentale», pour poursuivre ainsi sa domination. Le problème est que le reste du monde, n’est pas d’accord et s’organise pour tourner la page.
Petit retour 500 ans en arrière

For months, the young Azerbaijani activist-turned-journalist had been documenting the plight of her colleagues as they were smeared by pro-government media, detained, and hauled before the courts on charges of “currency smuggling.”

So Fatima prepared. The 24-year-old gave access to her Facebook account to friends abroad and recorded a one-minute video to be uploaded when the inevitable happened.

Not long ago a Jacobin article (re-posted on ZNet) argued that we need more Marxism. To my eyes the tone was if we aren’t Marxist we aren’t materialist, if we aren’t materialist we don’t believe in reality, and if we pay inadequate attention to reality we will chase rainbows and succumb to mis-leadership. Conclusion, we need to be Marxist materialists. As steadily more people become deeply disenchanted, then horrendously horrified, then outstandingly outraged at today’s world, and in response want to do something about it, there will be offers of helpful guidance. Smart people, confident people who have scads of answers, will offer tools to utilize and concepts to employ to make sense of what is happening and of means to make things better. Follow our lead. Sign on with us. Their offer will be helpful if the offered tools and concepts are well suited to the world we face and the tasks we undertake.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s messy breakup could have long-term ramifications for the Republican Party’s congressional primaries — as well as the Trump administration’s ties to Musk’s companies and his allies.

Still, senior Republicans are confident it won’t disrupt the Republican Party’s central focus this summer: Trump’s tax and spending megabill.

A criminal network smuggling mainly Syrian migrants from Türkiye to Western Europe has been taken down following a coordinated action led by the Bulgarian authorities and supported by Europol.

On 3 June, law enforcement carried out raids in five major cities across Bulgaria under the supervision of the Burgas Prosecutor’s Office. Officers from Greece, Romania and Moldova joined Bulgarian investigators on the ground, with Europol also deployed to support the action. In total, 18 people were arrested, including a high-value target.

Lorsque l’Histoire se fait illusion, l’illusion devient Histoire. Dans ce théâtre mondial où les géants de l’Occident, drapés dans l’armure de la démocratie et du progrès, orchestrent des jeux de pouvoir et d’influence, il semble que l’unique vérité réside dans la manipulation. Derrière les discours enflammés et les gestes grandiloquents des États-Unis, de l’OTAN comme de l’ONU, se cache une structure insidieuse, un empire non pas d’épées et de soldats, mais de promesses non tenues et de visages masqués. Cet «Empire du Bluff» n’est pas fait de fer et de ferveur, mais d’une construction spectrale, où l’apparence et la forme prennent le pas sur la substance. Un empire où, sous l’ombre des grandes puissances, se joue la danse macabre de l’illusion de sécurité et de prospérité. Le monde n’est pas dirigé par des démocraties aux mains tremblantes, mais par des entités financières, froides, cyniques et organisées autour d’intérêts qui se moquent éperdument des peuples, des frontières ou des morts. Car les guerres ne naissent pas d’un coup de folie ou d’un excès de passion nationaliste mais elles sont financées, planifiées, allumées volontairement par des acteurs qui, eux, ne meurent jamais dans les tranchées.

For the first time, a march labelled specifically as “anti-immigration” took place in Poland on Saturday, even if the message has often been heard before on the streets of Polish cities, particularly during the annual Independence Day parades held on November 11.

Since the Islamic State crashed onto the scene in 2014, the U.S. has led efforts to combat the group’s influence, acting as one of the largest donors to the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State and leading its forces through Operation Inherent Resolve. These efforts resulted in the successful territorial defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019. With the fall of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate, however, the threat changed—demanding a new approach. Accordingly, in 2022, U.S. Central Command Commanding General Michael Kurilla divided the Islamic State threat into three parts: “[Islamic State] at large” (the leaders and operatives fighting the U.S. and its partners Irweaq and Syria); “[Islamic State] in detention” (the thousands of Islamic State-affiliated men and boys, as well as some women and girls, held in detention facilities and youth “rehabilitation” centers in Iraq and Syria); and the “potential next generation of [Islamic State]” (the tens of thousands of primarily women and minors held in northeast Syrian Al-Hol and Roj detention camps).