Marine Le Pen and the Charlie Hebdo rally
The FN was excluded from the Charlie Hebdo rally because, although Marine Le Pen is trying to make her party look respectable, it has a long history of violence, neo-nazi…
Il faut des psychiatres pour comprendre le monde Arabe
Le comportement des musulmans fait penser à un complexe d’infériorité collectif. Quelles que soient ses motivations, même s’il n’y en a pas du tout, c’est un phénomène très dangereux: l’Allemagne…
Finding a balance between privacy protection and security
Privacy advocates never cease invoking Armageddon, every time anybody tries to fight terrorism by improving surveillance and intelligence. There is also a fundamental right that is often overlooked by our…
El Pais: Seguridad y libertad – protect citizens and safeguard their rights
Western governments try to obtain the means to act against terrorism. Our societies have to find solutions which give the police, intelligence and judges sufficient tools to exchange information quickly…
You may consider adapting to your new home country (and tolerating its inhabitants)
Extreme religious practices tend to attract comments, perhaps sometimes unpleasant – but so do all sorts of behaviours and attires to which society is not used at the moment. It…
Conspiracy theories
When you live in a totalitarian society, you learn to read between the lines and trust nothing at face value. You know that starting with your government all the way…
Boko Haram massacres and the media
Boko Haram has been busy these days, massacring whole villages, with hundreds or even thousands of victims. Some voices on social sites complain that we are dedicating so much time…
Mario Vargas Llosa: Las guerras del fin del mundo
Going back over Peruvian writer’s, Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa opinion piece in El Pais in Sept 2014 about democracy under attack from the new barbarians, I noticed that,…