By Francis Goumain, Francis Carr Begbie ∙ May 3, 2024
Few people remember it, but in the summer of 1947, a terrible heat wave swept across Europe, not quite as intense as that of 2003, but spread over a substantially longer period. But it’s not the only event that’s been almost completely forgotten about this summer, or, when it’s mentioned again, we are presented with…
By Francis Goumain ∙ March 19, 2024
Like Raymond Aron, we believe we need to distinguish between power and might. Power is the organization that makes might effective, but power can also become impotent, meaning that power without might is nothing. Keeping this in mind, let’s start our anthology 1. 1965 Konrad Adenauer, “One should not underestimate the might of the Jews”…
By Francis Goumain ∙ November 8, 2018
Was the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal aware of the existence of Document PS-3868? Probably not, and it is probably not because of this document that he was attacked in March 2018, in Salisbury, while he was in the company of his daughter Yulia. But no matter; to the extent that this document also deals with…
By Francis Goumain ∙ April 16, 2018
The capacity of the media to poison seems infinitely superior to that of any chemical agent. In the Skripal case, the Western public does not even ask for proof of guilt, since suspicion alone is sufficient: 1 – Russia is the enemy of the neo-conservatives, so she is one of the bad guys. 2 – The…
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