Très beau passage de l’ouvrage classique de Georges Lefebvre sur la volonté de Napoléon de réformer la france révolutionnaire dans l’espoir de créer un État hybride, une dictature de sa personne sur une nation en Révolution qui pourrait se rallier … Lire / Read
Liberators Once More: the New Party Line for Selling the Afghanistan War
“And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out…” (LK 19:40)
So it has come to this. A Disney-esque storyline is now the latest narrative for … Lire / Read
Obama’s First Mistake
By not prosecuting Cheney, Rumsfeld, & Co. for their overt war crimes and blatant war profiteering, Mr Obama began his presidency in a relationship of tacit approval of those crimes. What has followed is the result of his never disassociating … Lire / Read
La guerre, la guerre…
« But mankind’s relations with war are full of paradoxes and surprises. »
Tiré de Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870, London, Fontana, 1982, p. 106.
Voilà une affirmation qui résume très efficacement l’expérience des guerres … Lire / Read
Présentation, essai, et erreur…
Voilà…
Je me lance dans l’écriture sous la forme du blogue, moi qui avait toujours honni ce type de diffusion médiatique, trop axé sur les opinions et l’égocentrisme. Ce que je propose donc ici sera un peu différent des billets … Lire / Read
Even Humanitarian Aid Threatens Israel: Anybody Still Buying This?
The damage-control – make that cover-up – of Israel’s latest massacre of Gaza, this time at sea, (everywhere absurdly being called a « raid »), began as soon as the reporting started. On day one, reports of as many as … Lire / Read
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THE END OF LIFE AS WE KNEW IT (or, Die, Ayn Rand, why won’t you die?)
We’ve heard that the cover-up is worse than the scandal, but we’ve moved far beyond mere scandal. These are cover-ups of things that subvert the entire nature of “civilized” humankind: like the true scope of C.I.A. Black Ops and renditions, … Lire / Read
L’accès pour tous
Industrie Canada a annoncé hier, par voie de communiqué, qu’elle approuvait une première tranche de 52 projets visant à implanter Internet haute vitesse en régions, dans le cadre de son programme « Large bande Canada: un milieu rural branché »… Lire / Read
What The World Needs Now: Time for the Mad Tea Party to End
« Our shared belief is that wealth must serve more than the wealthy, that prosperity must serve more than the simply prosperous, that good fortune must help more than those who are just fortunate…inequality should not be woven into … Lire / Read
Let Us Take A Moment To Remember Why We are Liberals
Today we read about how President Obama traveled to West Virginia to attend the funeral of 9 miners who were killed recently in an accident that was entirely preventable, but which was at the same time inevitable due to the … Lire / Read