USA

...They Killed America In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to the material interests of lobby groups. I don’t know if the program still exists. If it does, the idealism that was its purpose is long gone. President John F. Kennedy was a classy president. In my lifetime there has not been another like... [Lire la suite]

Are Western propagandists fooling anyone but themselves? The latest absurdity coming out of Ukraine, the EU and Washington is that the humanitarian aid that Russia and the Red Cross are trucking into the former Russian territories that comprise eastern Ukraine is a trick, a deception, a pretext for Russia’s invasion forces. Such a preposterous lie tells us that Western propagandists have no respect whatsoever for the intelligence of Western peoples. Even a moron should understand that if Russia wants to send military forces into... [Lire la suite]

Obama ou Romney, les Américains choisiront leur destin. Continuité ou rupture, ce choix sera crucial au-delà des frontières. Mais il ne changera pas grand chose dans le quotidien des Américains. Le rêve américain est devenu le cauchemar de beaucoup, et certains (plus nombreux qu'on ne l'imagine) ne se relèveront pas. L'Amérique survivra avec ses contrastes, son génie inventif et l'emprise de la religion, son espoir insensé et sa violence exacerbée, sa confiance démesurée et sa méconnaissance du monde et de ses sensibilités. Eden... [Lire la suite]