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Elections Carnival

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While in France the electoral campaign is in danger of becoming a carnival, with its hypocrisy and fake job positions, in all countries imbued with Christianity festivals bearing that name are starting, those inherited from the Greek Dionysus’ festivities and…

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Cease fire!

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In total confidentiality, a critical bill is in the process of becoming law, with the agreement of the political Left and Right; an extraordinarily dangerous bill, which amends police shooting legislation in France. This way of proceeding was particularly untimely,…

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Angry People

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Last Saturday, in one of the most influential and famous television programs in the United States, the Saturday Night Live, with an average audience of 7 million viewers weekly for the past 43 years on NBC, and which has for…

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No, you do not have a monopoly on the people!

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French political history remembers the scathing reply of Valery Giscard d’Estaing to François Mitterrand during the Presidential debate in 1974: « You do not have a monopoly on heart. » As controversial as this pun might be, it played a…

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For an apology of the elites

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At the end of this year, I would like to express my anger. A justified reaction in light of the manifold ills that plague our world: The billion people who go to bed hungry every night; the two billion people…

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The Intolerable Power of Truth

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Truth works in the same way as power, because it imposes its own diktats, even more ruthless than those of the most powerful dictators. Hence, scientific laws, indisputable because they are based on repeated experimental observations, such as the earth’s…

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Liberty, Equality, Feminism

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La présence de quelques femmes à des postes de pouvoir importants, et l’amélioration sensible, partout dans le monde, de l’accès des femmes à l’éducation et aux soins, ne doit pas cacher l’essentiel: partout, les femmes sont de moins en moins bien traitées par la société, c’est à dire par les hommes. Pour le plus grand malheur des uns et des autres.

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