Wars and peace
Palestine Convoy - official departure
Now that the din of the World Cup is over, it is time to give visibility back to the courageous initiatives for the recognition of the Palestinian genocide and against the forgetting of this tragedy that the Israeli Zionist government would like. A new convoy bringing medical support and essential…
Criminalised for quoting an adviser to Zelensky
The EU is sanctioning several people, including Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau, for “pro-Russian propaganda”. Asset freezes, a ban on entering European territory. BAM! has gone through the regulation published yesterday in the Official Journal.
Trump’s election took Europe by surprise
How are we to understand this election? Like many in Europe, some of us were surprised to learn last Wednesday of Trump’s re-election for a new term. In an age of instant information, how can it be explained that so many of us, so many Europeans, could have developed such a false picture of what…
War in Ukraine, rivalry between great powers and the self-assertion of Europe
At a time when the bugles of war are sounding ever louder, BAM is publishing the full transcript of the lecture by retired German general Harald Kujat. A former Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr, he went on to serve as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2002 to 2005 and chaired the…
UN: A strategic vote for a global power grab?
The leaders of the UN member states are voting today on a declaration on pandemic management. Will they strengthen the WHO and its One Health project?
The marriage between the neoconservatives and the "woke" left
Wokism, political correctness, "left-wing" self-righteousness, neoconservatism and military interventionism are advancing hand in hand.
Festival of ugliness
We have just been through Halloween. This festival has had a winding history in Europe. The year in the West is punctuated by once religious (or even spiritual) festivals that have become highly commercialised: Christmas in winter, Easter in spring and Halloween in autumn. Little by little, these…
Did Xi Jinping send a message to Joe Biden?
By staging the removal of his predecessor, who shows signs of senility similar to those of the American president, did Xi Jinping send a message to Joe Biden?
Monkeypox declared a public health emergency of international concern
On Saturday 23 July, monkeypox was declared a public health emergency of international concern. But it was not the emergency committee that decided this, but rather the Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself.
A worrying precedent in China: covid surveillance infrastructure used to suppress dissent
Norbert Häring's article draws a parallel between the covid surveillance infrastructure in China and in Europe and unmasks its potential for totalitarian abuse.