Il y a une bonne nouvelle aujourd'hui : c'est la dernière journée des Jeux olympiques d'hiver. Ces jeux n'ont rien de joviaux mais tout d'une âpre compétition nationaliste qui masque mal son caractère commercial. Les Jeux olympiques constituent une puissance commerciale mondiale, financée à plus de 90 % par des fonds privés via les droits de diffusion (73 %) et le marketing (18 %) sans compter la pollution publicitaire qu'ils génèrent. Ils ont permis l'accélération de la gentrification de (…)

JESSE JACKSON's DEATH has brought about a look back at his life and what it shows about progress and retreat for civil rights and freedom. Jackson was a bridge from the civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr, to today's activists against the Trump MAGA white nationalist movement.
Today the victories of the civil rights revolution of the 1960s — the winning of civil rights (1964), Voting Rights (1965) and other laws ending legal segregation and discrimination — are being reversed. We (…)

The general election held on February 8 concluded with a landslide victory for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), securing over a two-thirds majority. The main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, which was hastily formed on 15 January 2026 by the agreements between leaders of Constitutional Democratic Party (Rikken-minshutō, CDP) and Komeito, suffered a catastrophic defeat.
Although this historic outcome was enough shocking, a more significant change for us was the defeat and (…)