The battle for time to live

Neither Léon Blum, François Mitterrand nor Lionel Jospin were extremist revolutionaries. On the contrary, they were among the leaders of French and European social democracy. However… they kept their word when it…

Notes for Rebirth

Easter greetings multiply in text messages and emails as the world continues in its maelstrom of crisis, violence and nonsense. We have already said it several times, the old world is leaving,…

12 April, World Cosmonautics Day

It is 62 years since a historic human feat: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s journey to become the first human being to see the Earth from space with his own eyes. It was…

Let the banks burn

The banking crisis is different this time. In fact, it is worse than in 2007-08. Back then, we could blame the sequential collapse of banks on wholesale fraud, widespread predatory lending, collusion…