Can we still talk about the issues at stakes surrounding September? After all, the planet today is such that it will be more and more difficult to talk about « September », when the spectacle of the world is increasingly permanent, and its interaction with our own concerns ever increasing…
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…
In many areas, the East has many things to teach to the West. And those on the subject of the use of the mind are the most important ones. India as well as China have made them into areas of research, experience and practice for a long time…
A very interesting experiment conducted by the University of Amman in Jordan speaks volumes about the acceptable, fair and effective conditions for achieving social policy: it shows that greater knowledge by the taxpayers of the impact of the redistribution of their tax dollars encourages them to be much more altruistic….
When a holiday takes hold in the national landscape, no one can imagine that it could disappear one day from the calendar. This is obviously the case in particular for The Fourteenth of July, an occasion for fun, patriotism and celebration for more than two centuries,…
The horrible crime (a young girl tortured, raped, murdered) tried just now by the juvenile assize court of Haute Loire does not call for any compassion for the perpetrator. And the verdict, which sentenced him to life in prison, with virtually no possibility of release, is understandable…
The situation on global financial markets may be changing, with very significant consequences for all the different societies, once again giving evidence of the extraordinary interdependence of economies and nations of the world. And further proof that the current crisis is far from over…
Two seemingly distant events, come before us once more, and they tell us a lot about our times and our future: the sudden closure of state broadcaster ERT, a move that reportedly affects about 2,700 jobs and the battle to include or exclude the film and audiovisual industry in the major EU-US trade talks which will soon begin…
