By the time this article will be online, he might be dead. In prison. On a hunger strike. For writing on his blog what everyone knows: despite Mubarak’s departure, the Egyptian army continues to massacre peaceful demonstrators.
The year 2012 will bring together geopolitical, economic, financial, democratic, scientific and artistic promises and threats.
The Brussels agreement was approved by all. And it is an extraordinary feat of the President of the French Republic and the German Chancellor to have succeeded, (after they have themselves finally measured the extent of the short-term risks to the survival of the euro), in sharing this awareness by 26 out of 27 countries…
Every year, in keeping with tradition I venture, with more or less success, to anticipate the main economic and geopolitical events of the coming year. The exercise is increasingly necessary: we need more and more powerful headlights to venture on a road increasingly icy surrounded by ravines deeper and deeper.
A news wire reminds us that nothing has been solved in Fukushima. Not only the radioactivity continues to expand; Not only radioactive wastes from the plant are still in a spent fuel pool in the wrong place unfortunately in case of another earthquake.
After the last summit of the European Union, which was a disaster for indebted countries, here comes the G20 summit, which seems to be not better.
This week while flying over the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, I thought about this reply of Bubbles, the pathetic drug dealer from the underbelly of Baltimore, discovering the affluent area of the same city, home of the ex-wife and the children of the police officer for whom is an informant in the fourth episode of the first season of one of my favorite American television series, The Wire…
