Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge?
The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike Mali or Burkina Faso, where French troops were bluntly asked to leave by military juntas, Mayotte is in effect a full-fledged French department. The reminiscence […]
China, Russia and India Versus USA, EU and Japan: Axes Powers of a New Global Cold War?
The birth of a bipolar world order? Since 2014, which marked the first Russian intervention in Ukraine, a new global geopolitical dynamic has amplified under conflicting impulses. The areas of direct, or more often proxy conflicts, have been in many senses contained with some sort of cynical pressure-cooker mechanism. If empires always seek hegemony, sane […]
French Radical Protests: Can the Sinister Fascist Traits of Capitalism be Overcome?
President Macron is not a king but a pawn of global finance The current tenant of the Elysee Palace has been called by NUPES, the left coalition opposition in France, a President-King. To do so is to give him a bigger role and more power than what he has. In reality, Macron is just one […]
Qu’est donc la memoire?
Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est des couches de souvenirs innombrables Stratifications invisibles et furtives De l’empreinte magique du temps Souvenirs fragiles et éphémères Tels des chateaux de sable Sous l’assaut des vagues et du vent Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est l’impossibilité de trouver La paix dans l’oubli du silence Telle une […]
Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival
Mythology of humans’ natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, finally, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. Etymologically, homo means human and sapiens means wise or knowledgeable. One can see that in this 18th century anthropocentric characterization of our species, the […]
