Quatre hauts responsables de grandes entreprises technologiques comme Meta et Palantir vont prêter serment au sein de la Réserve de l’armée usaméricaine en tant qu’officiers directement commissionnés, au grade exceptionnellement élevé de lieutenant-colonel, dans le cadre d’un nouveau programme visant à recruter des experts du secteur privé pour accélérer l’adoption des technologies.
“The assault in Ballymena is the latest in a long string of heinous, misogynistic sexual crimes”
The far right has seized on the horrific sexual assault of a girl to launch racist pogroms in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
The international system, which developed after the unipolar period of the Cold War, now faces sustained transformations in power relations because of nationalist populist movements. These populist movements, which Donald Trump exemplifies as “America First,” have revealed weaknesses in international organizations and alliances and simultaneously driven new developments in protectionism and democratic regression, and strategic ambiguity across all regions of the world. These global developments demand a full comprehension to develop suitable strategies that would strengthen the current fractured international system.
Dock workers in Italy and France have successfully stopped around 14 tonnes of munitions bound for Israel.
CGT union members at the Fos-sur-Mer port in France became aware of the shipment—and refused to handle Israel’s weapons of genocide.
Saila Heinikoski
Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
The Schengen area has not been borderless since autumn 2015. Indeed, the reintroduction of internal border controls has been the first reaction in crisis situations, be it immigration or the coronavirus pandemic. Closing borders sounds like a drastic measure attempting to create a feeling of security, but the political costs of doing so are small, as criticism often comes from abroad.
Since its brutal subjugation in the early 2000s, Russia has simultaneously succeeded and failed in establishing a stable Chechnya. It succeeded in crushing most of the armed resistance in the country, and it expelled many of those who were left to Turkey and the Middle East. But it also created a regime in Grozny that is troubled under the weight of its own contradictions and lack of vision.
Bienvenue dans la folle conspiration géopolitique !
L’exécution implacable de ce que certains appellent désormais le «Nouvel Ordre Mondial Technocratique» avançant avec une froideur chirurgicale est un plan mûrement orchestré. Rien, dans les récents soubresauts géopolitiques, qu’il s’agisse de tensions commerciales, de conflits armés ou de ces sinistres jeux d’alliances mouvantes, ne relève du hasard ou du caprice du destin. Il s’agit au contraire de rouages d’une mécanique implacable, mue par une réinitialisation mondiale savamment programmée, visant à remodeler les équilibres de pouvoir, à déposséder les peuples sous couvert de progrès, et à transférer les leviers de décision vers une élite technocratique dont la légitimité n’a jamais été soumise au jugement populaire. Cette dynamique, qui n’a rien de spontané, est en réalité l’expression brutale d’un basculement autoritaire, maquillé en modernité mais dont les racines ont déjà cinquante ans.
Last month, while Donald Trump was in the Middle East being gifted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, Barack Obama headed off on his own foreign excursion: a trip to Norway, in a much smaller and more tasteful jet, to visit the summer estate of his old friend King Harald V. Together, they would savor the genteel glories of Bygdøyveien in May. They chewed over global affairs and the freshest local salmon, which had been smoked on the premises and seasoned with herbs from the royal garden.
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.