We often hear that the new Trump administration inaugurates the age of technofeudalism. Just look at Elon Musk, pontificating about so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) democracy from the Oval Office while undemocratically occupying the US Treasury payment system. But is the administration simply using bullying as a mode of power, as Adam Tooze recently diagnosed it, destroying institutions without measure or plan?
The smashing of the US Agency for International (…)

TAIWANESE SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturing giant TSMC announced today that it intends to invest 100 billion USD in the US over the next four years. TSMC's plans for investment were announced jointly by the company and US president Donald Trump, who suggested that TSMC could avoid the tariffs he has threatened to impose on Taiwanese semiconductors with the deal, though it is unclear how that would work out as an investment framework.
According to TSMC chair CC Wei, the investment will be for a (…)

Les communistes indonésiens ont joué un rôle crucial dans le développement de la conscience nationale parmi les ouvriers et les paysans, contre la domination coloniale néerlandaise. Après la répression sanglante de la gauche indonésienne dans les années 1960, le régime de Suharto a effacé la gauche des livres d'histoire.
Critique de Communication against Capital : Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia par Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Dans Communication against (…)

Que Washington et Moscou aient choisi le royaume saoudien comme lieu de réunion entre leurs délégations pour discuter des perspectives de la guerre qui se déroule en Ukraine depuis que les forces russes ont envahi ce pays il y a trois ans, est une illustration claire des profonds changements qui se produisent sous nos yeux dans les affaires internationales.
Que Washington et Moscou aient choisi le royaume saoudien comme lieu de réunion entre leurs délégations pour discuter des perspectives (…)

FORMER SUNFLOWER MOVEMENT participant Johanne Liou is to be deported from the US next month, facing charges related to drug trafficking and fraud. The arrest was conducted by ICE, with Taiwanese authorities stating that they requested Liou's extradition. Liou did not appear at the New Taipei District Prosecutors' Office in 2023, which resulted in charges against her.
This is not Liou's first run-in with the law, as Liou faced charges related to introducing women in the US to sex work in (…)