Corporate billionaires and war-profiteers of all countries depend on our ignorant allegiances to the ideologies that keep them in power – but there is no hope of survival if we continue to play their perverse lifeboat-game.

For thirty years, the U.S. citizen has been conditioned little by little, to accept less. Less protection from unions, less protection from polluters, less protection from bankers and the financial sector, less actual work from [...]

Dans un article paru d’abord en 1986 et qui a profondément transformé la perception de la discipline historique, Scott s’attaque à démystifier et théoriser le concept même de « genre » en tant qu’outil analytique, [...]

What was all that, anyway? An artful dodge, a handshake offered for show, concealing far more than anyone who thought Democrats and Republicans to be different breeds could imagine; the ruse of ‘bipartisanship’ has made [...]

Voilà près de cinq mois que je délaisse ce blogue. La cause en est simple, je viens de faire la traversée du désert sur deux sujets de lectures qui ont durablement endommagé ma matière grise. [...]

Is anybody out there mad as hell? Is anybody out there not going to take it anymore? I don’t say you have to like it, but you’re taking it, all right. The entire structure of [...]

In one of then-Senator Barack Obama’s first campaign speeches (Feb 2007), he remembered his early days in Illinois, telling a constituency that had been battered and bamboozled by two terms of the Bush Administration, that [...]

Voici comment David A. Bell qualifie la guerre dans on ouvrage qui vise à repenser notre vision du concept de guerre totale à travers la Révolution française et le règne de Napoléon : « It [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

« 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]