Among the arguments that can attract voters’ attention toward an extremist party, (and in France especially toward the National Front) the most destructive, one that can capture the attention of the greatest number of good and decent people is the following: for decades everything has been tried, the right and the left. The left with floor crossers from the right…
As the Oslo Accords celebrate its 20th anniversary (which allowed the assumption that through direct negotiation between Palestinians and Israelis this could lead to the creation of a viable Palestinian State, and to the recognition of the State of Israel by the Arab states, within secure borders)…
There are a thousand excellent reasons not to go into Syria…
Peu de comparaisons sérieuses ont été faites entre la chute, semble-t-il réussie, des dictatures à l’Est de l’Europe et les innombrables échecs des printemps arabes. En principe, on aurait pu espérer les mêmes résultats…
The heatwave that Europe is experiencing today does not just affect the daily life of vacationists. It is also a reminder of the climate change we face and takes us back to the influence of climates on our civilizations, which Aristotle, Montesquieu, and later Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, with others, framed the theory…
A new ideological and geostrategic discourse is appearing in the American political, economic and military ruling circles. Faced with the rise of Chinese power, which will soon become, inevitably, the world’s largest economic power, in terms of production, we are now hearing a new speech in Washington…
Les partis d’extrême gauche et d’extrême droite font tout pour apparaitre distincts ; et leurs différences sont évidemment majeures, sur un point au moins : leur attitude à l’égard de l’immigration. Pour autant, ils ont de plus en plus de points communs tant dans la forme que sur le fonds…
While so many major reforms are waiting to be taken from the sidings, some law proposals recently examined by the Council of Ministers are puzzling, or shocking. This is the case for the law proposal which authorises faculty members to teach in a foreign language in our French universities and Grandes Écoles…
No, Beppe Grillo is not Coluche. Michel Colucci would never have argued that “AIDS is the greatest hoax of the century”, made up by the West, denying the fact that it is a transmissible virus. Neither would have claimed without any proof, that a respected Italian neurologist …
