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Le vrai Citoyen préfère l’avantage général à son avantage. The true Citizen prefers everyone’s benefit over his own benefit Jean-Jacques Rousseau Oliver Stone may direct a thriller called Snowden, telling the heroic story of the whistleblower. In anticipation of it, I sought to read Luke Harding’s The Snowden Files (2014) – the main source for the film – in hope of producing a…

Renoncer à sa liberté, c’est renoncer à sa qualité d’homme. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau A very shrewd analysis at Counterpunch titled “NATO Lies and Provocations” responded to a Der Spiegel article, criticizing NATO top general Breedlove and his assertions of a Russian invasion in Ukraine. I was surprised at how…

Les hommes de guerre sont des fléaux du monde. Men of war are the scourge of the world. Guy de Maupassant The Saudis and their allies are usually a puzzle when it comes to foreign policy. In their reaction to events in Yemen, they just look like bumbling fools. The cartoon from Sputnik News mocking former Yemeni…

C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est de la folie. It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness. Pierre Bosquet This blog’s primary focus is religion and politics. Either subject is inherently controversial, but no results are more controversial than when the two are mixed to create their explosive cocktail. I guess…

Sous un gouvernement qui emprisonne injustement, la place de l’homme juste est aussi en prison. Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the place of the just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau The human rights group Cage has taken a lot of fire for saying Mohammed Emwazi, also called “Jihadi John” and an Islamic…

La haine est un sentiment fatiguant. Hate is a tiring feeling. Éric Delcroix In the harebrained first Crimean War and subsequent Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, Britain’s history is full of examples of citizens being easily led into fevered nationalism over distant international affairs that don’t concern our lives. Anti-Russian hysteria and fanatical obsessions with confronting Russia in…

Je meurs en adorant Dieu, en aimant mes amis, en ne haïssant pas mes ennemis et en détestant la superstition. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. Voltaire Returning to the subject of Islamophobia and the detractors of that particular definition of offense, I recently wrote a feature article at…

Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle. I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. Benjamin Constant There are a number of issues on my mind today. The first has been the Lifeboat Foundation. I am a member of this organization, listed on its futurist advisory board.…

Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort. It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. Voltaire Snowden was a titan. With individuals such as him, what need for “movements” or “groups”? From my space over at The clubof.info Blog just today. As a political entity, Mr…

Je crois qu’il y a des résistances honnêtes et des rébellions légitimes. I believe that there are honest resistance forces and legitimate rebellions. Alexis de Tocqueville How many times can the liar lie, before people stop believing? Thousands of Russian tanks and soldiers passing into Ukraine, where they become invisible and only NATO spokesmen can see…
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