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A strategic stake
On 1 July, Claude Fable 5 is back, three weeks after Washington unplugged it with the stroke of a pen. Behind the anecdote lies a shift: AI is no longer a mere product, it is a strategic stake. The story of a U-turn, its reasons and its consequences.
1 Plan, 4 Presidents
In 2007, General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO, revealed the existence of a classified Pentagon memo listing seven countries to be overthrown—with Iran at the bottom of the list. Twenty-five years and four presidents later, the list has been checked off. A look back at a plan that…
Syria: Chaos and Persecution
The Committee for the Support of Syrian Alawites and the Union of Syrian Alawites in Europe, in cooperation with the Syrian Democratic Forces and representatives of the Kurdish minority, have called for a demonstration this Saturday, January 10, at Place du Luxembourg, to demand urgent…
Hamas: Netanyahu’s golem?
While Netanyahu lambasts the countries and organisations that denounce the massacre of Palestinians, accusing them of complacency towards Hamas, history shows quite a different reality. For decades, numerous facts have attested that he helped support and strengthen the Islamist movement in Gaza…
NGOs and influence diplomacy
While Ukraine illustrates the decisive role of NGOs in contemporary conflicts, Trump’s arrival in 2024 is calling their funding into question and revealing the political rift they provoke within the United States itself. From the OSS and the CIA to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and…
Armenia: Peace or betrayal?
In Armenia, the draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan, hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough by the government, is experienced by a large part of the population as a humiliating capitulation. Between massive demonstrations against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and growing anger towards US Ambassador…
Zelensky and the Pandora Papers
On the great world chessboard, pawns are often the first to be sacrificed… but in reality, one hopes the game will never be over. Some cannot help feeling compassion for the pawn Zelensky, forced to justify his outfit or his piano performances while his people are being massacred. We should not…
Fauci out of reach?
Having already pardoned his son Hunter for any offence committed since 2014, Joe Biden struck again on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, pardoning on 19 January five other members of his family[1], several Democratic representatives[2], General Milley,...