D’où je m’exprime !
Simple citoyen, j’accueille bientôt mes 58 années sur cette terre et je voudrais partager certaines observations et réflexions issues de multiples échanges, lectures et analyses émanant de contacts divers logés en Afrique, Caraïbes, Canada et Europe durant la décennie passée avec une acuité particulière sur les trois dernières ! Je ne saurais dire qu’il s’agit d’analyse au sens strict, car j’y mélange sans scrupule ce qui s’apparente à de l’opinion.
L’ensemble du dispositif politique américain – avec ou sans inculpation au titre de la FARA (Loi sur l’enregistrement des agents étrangers), et à l’approche des élections de 2024 – est fragile.
La situation devient très confuse. On frôle la folie. Un nouvel acte d’accusation comportant quatre chefs d’inculpation relatifs aux événements du 6 janvier a été émis à l’encontre de l’ancien président Trump, qui est désormais accusé de plus de 75 crimes. Toutefois, ces nouvelles accusations ne feront probablement qu’éroder davantage la confiance dans le processus judiciaire fédéral et dans l’intégrité du système politique américain lui-même. L’acte d’accusation doit être examiné dans le district de Columbia, qui est notoirement politisé et qui a peu de chances de constituer un jury autre que totalement hostile (on dit à Washington que le département de la Justice pourrait condamner un hamburger avec un jury de Washington).
La mer Noire, traditionnellement zone de prospérité avec d’abondantes ressources agricoles mais aussi zone de transit énergétique nécessaire à l’Europe depuis la destruction des gazoducs Nord Stream, est devenue une zone d’affrontement. Le 19 juillet 2023, le ministère de la Défense russe a déclaré que tous les navires naviguant en mer Noire vers les ports ukrainiens seront considérés comme des transporteurs potentiels de cargaison militaire.
Leonid Savin
Copying alien theories and models is unlikely to benefit our state and people.
From the mid-2000s to the early 2020s, there was a fashion for “soft power” in the Russian community of political scientists and international affairs experts – numerous articles on this topic were published, dissertations were defended, representatives of a number of Russian NGOs and foundations eloquently tried to convince that they were engaged in “soft power” issues in order to promote Russia’s interests abroad. We must agree that the term coined by Joseph Nye Jr. was indeed attractive. True, he also talked about hard power, smart power and cyber power. And then there’s the sharp power (by Christopher Walker) and the sticky power (by Walter Russell Mead). And different views on how to use power to exercise US domination led to controversy between theorists of these methodologies.
Austrian economics properly understands the ability of commercial banks to create money by mismatching their depositor liabilities with their issuing of money substitutes (i.e., the creation of credit). One possible place for further exploration is the role that nonbank or foreign financial institutions play in the creation of credit and the broader implications on business-cycle creation.
Two young Muslims [ages 15 and 16] living in Austria recently confessed that they would like to “kill Christians” and “restore the caliphate.”
“Killing Christians takes us to paradise.” — The boys’ reply in court.
As in other European nations, sex crimes — including against young boys — have skyrocketed in Austria.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you’re undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America’s World War II-era Manhattan Project. The film has earned widespread attention, with large numbers of people participating in what’s already become known as “Barbieheimer” by seeing Greta Gerwig’s hit film Barbie and Nolan’s three-hour-long Oppenheimer on the same day.
Preface
The text has aim to investigate the situation of female representation in politics in the industrialized contemporary Western democracies. Though women are more and more visible in politics, we can not yet say they have taken an equal position compared to men. Of course, they have had to take a long road and there is certainly a positive evolution, but there are still some mechanisms that lead to different kinds and levels of political discrimination.
Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945.
One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK, U.S., and China) have consistently used military force to undermine this notion. And while acts of seizing territory have grown rare, ongoing military domination allows imperialism to further manifest through economic, political, and cultural control.
While the Ukraine war has seen an explosion in the collection and distribution of open source intelligence, the work of secret intelligence agencies remains as important as ever.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the world of secret intelligence is no more. Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there has been a stream of opinion pieces arguing that traditional state-based agencies are struggling to keep up in the face of open source intelligence (OSINT). The volume and speed at which we can access publicly available information is a revolution that large secret intelligence agencies are struggling to cope with, or so we’re told. Whether it’s commercially sourced satellite imagery or social media posts, the US and UK intelligence communities are operating in an increasingly complex environment – that much is true.