It Takes More Than Fact Checks to Beat Populists|Bloomberg
This sheds new light on the efforts of fact checkers and journalists – fighting an impossible battle with deeply irrational, sentiment driven voting. It confirms that, in order to attract…
Céline Pina : “L’islamisme, ce n’est pas une invasion de barbus, c’est beaucoup plus insidieux”|Marianne
Quand Valls estime qu’il faudrait interdire le voile à l’université, vous êtes d’accord avec lui ?Oui, car le voile dont on parle n’est plus un petit foulard flottant sur des…
Europe’s new right sounds like the old left – FT.com
One day in 2008, a friend called to tell me that he thought the world might be coming to an end. He was not a religious fanatic; he worked in…
Russia funds French National Front: is Moscow sowing European unrest?| News | The Week UK
Russia has also reportedly lent money to Greece’s neofascist Golden Dawn, Italy’s Northern League and other anti-Europe parties Source: Russia funds French National Front: is Moscow sowing European unrest?| News…
The French Way of War – POLITICO Magazine
The French military is highly conscious of its small size and lack of resources… Whenever possible, they try to limit the use of the military to missions for which militaries…
The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt
The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt …our security services need to work together much more closely. Following the attacks in Paris, it’s…
Gordon Adams in Foreign Policy: France Has Been No Friend to Muslims
Gordon Adams, in France Has Been No Friend to Muslims manages to make sound the 732 battle of Poitiers as only the first of many acts of aggression against Islam:…
Au FN, la Russie reconnaissante ? | Libération
Mediapart publie les textos d’un responsable russe désireux de «remercier» le FN pour son soutien à l’annexion de la péninsule ukrainienne en mars 2014. Quelques mois avant que le parti…
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…