Reflectii

Demonstrators burn a scarf at a protest against the Iranian government on Sunday. (David Bates/CBC)

Iranians took to the streets for a 10th consecutive night Sunday, in defiance of a warning from the judiciary, to protest the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody.

Images circulated by IHR showed protesters on the streets of Tehran, shouting “death to the dictator,” purportedly after nightfall on Sunday.

Fewer babies will be born in all of Europe than in Nigeria alone.

More than half the increase of the global population projected by 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries, mostly in Africa, according to The Economist: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Tanzania. Nigeria will have more inhabitants than Europe and the United States.

The continued instability in the global oil market will not only strengthen the unity between the key OPEC+ players but also force them to focus primarily on ensuring their own interests, before taking those of their consumers into consideration.

Russia’s war in Ukraine entered the summer of 2022 with no clear military victor in sight. What began as a war of expected bold Russian maneuvers coupled with a paralyzing aerospace and cyber campaign has degenerated into a massive tube-and-rocket-artillery duel, a World War I-style battle of attrition on a battlefield largely confined to the eastern Donbas region and along the Ukrainian border north and west of Crimea.

Aux cris de « A bas la France » et « Vive Poutine et la Russie », les manifestants ont sillonné quelques rues de Niamey avant de tenir un meeting devant le siège de l’Assemblée nationale.

Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont manifesté pacifiquement dimanche 18 septembre dans les rues de Niamey, la capitale du Niger, pour protester notamment contre la force antidjihadiste française « Barkhane », tout en encensant la Russie, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP. Aux cris de « “Barkhane” dehors », « A bas la France », « Vive Poutine et la Russie », les manifestants ont sillonné quelques rues de la capitale avant de tenir un meeting devant le siège de l’Assemblée nationale.

L’organisation caritative espagnole Open Arms a secouru 372 personnes qui tentaient de traverser la Méditerranée centrale pour rejoindre l’Europe à bord d’embarcations en mauvais état lors de trois opérations menées sur une période de 24 heures.

No matter how noble its stated intentions, the “Great Reset” is at its heart a program for driving political power away from individual citizens and toward the controlling interests of a small international class of financial elites…. For citizens to reclaim power, they must not only embrace the basics of free markets once again but also rekindle a fondness for questioning the motivations of political authorities.

Observing today’s world and all conundrums of postmodernism, along with pluralism and the tyranny of choice, one can witness an “era of gaps”, where great lack of common denominators is a contemporary hazard. The situations redefine diligence and empowers individuals to act like agents of change, not solemnly passive receivers. “Now in the era of artificial intelligence, a new underreported challenge has emerged – when will humans become obsolete? If one believes that this question is yet another example of philosophical melodrama, it is important to consider that society will soon have to redefine what it considers to be life itself” (Bajrektarević, 2020).

About 10 years ago, two young radicals showed up on Marxmail and soon found themselves clashing with old fogies on the list.

One of them was the 19-year-old Bhaskar Sunkara who unsubbed from the list to get away from all the nasty digs against Barack Obama: