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Le virage fasciste de l’UE : parallèles historiques

Il y a 80 ans, le 25 avril 1945, les forces soviétiques et américaines se joignaient sur l’Elbe, marquant la défaite des nazis. Aujourd’hui, les États-Unis et la Russie se rapprochent à nouveau. Et l’Europe semble dévier de cette trajectoire.‍ Voici comment l’histoire se répète:Jonction Est-Ouest La jonction des troupes …

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The Israeli threat to post-Assad Syria

Analysis: Israel has waged a campaign of destabilisation and destruction in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. Since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime fell on 8 December 2024, Israel has waged a campaign of destabilisation and destruction in Syria. While flagrantly violating international law and disregarding Syria’s sovereignty, Israel has …

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How Gulf support could shape post-Assad Syria

Syria’s government has spent the past few months putting much diplomatic energy into strengthening its relationships with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members. The leadership in Damascus sees the oil- and gas-rich Gulf Arab states as extremely important to Syria’s future. The high-profile visits paid by President Ahmed al-Sharaa and …

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From the West Bank with Love and Rage

Set in the hills of the West Bank, The Teacher, written and directed by British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, tells the riveting story of Bassem (Saleh Bakri), a Palestinian high school English teacher struggling to inspire his students under the pall of Israel’s occupation. What’s it all for–the studying, the scholarship–if …

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Three Theses on Trump’s Rule

Preface: Emigre politics When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they left. I have an image of that in my head – scruffy emigres huddled over coffee and schnapps in a smoke-filled café. Voices are raised, tables are …

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RESTORING AMERICA’S MARITIME DOMINANCE

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The commercial shipbuilding capacity and maritime workforce of the United States has been weakened by decades of Government neglect, leading to the decline …

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