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Pour ne pas laisser le dernier mot aux autocrates, aux fanatiques et aux adeptes de la violence radicale, elle n’a d’autre choix que de se réinventer. La force des démocratures et de l’islamisme découle en effet avant tout des faiblesses et de la désunion des démocraties.
Nicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
Ben Aris is one of the leading (freely accessible) experts on Russian and former Soviet economies. He's been doing it for decades as a reporter, financial analyst, and now editor of the major business paper for EM World. He's therefore worth reading on this matter.
Collingwood 🇬🇧x.com
In this week’s PREMIUM episode of @MultipolarPod @admcollingwood and I discuss the Durov arrest, the rise and rise of socialist nationalism, the broke EU going into stingymode, and the Turks going BRICS wild! Tune in now! 👇 https://t.co/RaSFtNRGoe
Have US tech leaders “dangerously lost the plot”?
Arnaud Bertrand on Palantir CEO Alex Karp, whose video was recently reposted by @elonmusk. Palantir is an intelligence contractor controlled by Peter Thiel, Karp and Stephen Cohen, founded with CIA seed capital:
"Perfect illustration that... See more
WikiLeaksx.comJohn Kiriakou committed Washington’s one unpardonable sin: he embarrassed the CIA. John Brennan tried to have him executed for it.
(0:00) Introduction
(1:41) Speaking Out Against the CIA’s Torture Program
(7:20) Why the CIA Loved Obama
(19:05) Why John Brennan Hated... See more
Tucker Carlsonx.comIn one of his last books, Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism, the great Marxist thinker Samir Amin posed a prescient question.
He saw that the Putin-era Russian state balanced two contradictory economic tendencies. On one hand, it introduced vicious neoliberal reforms, which served exclusively... See more
Paweł Warganx.com
More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.