Why we can’t beat our addiction to war ddressing the graduating cadets at West Point in May 1942, General George C. Marshall, then the Army chief of staff, reduced the nation’s purpose in the global war it had recently joined to a single emphatic sentence. “We are determined,” he remarked, “that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.” At the time Marshall spoke, mere months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. forces had sustained a…

  Depuis plus de dix ans, j'ai l'occasion de rencontrer des lycéens une ou deux fois par an, pour les écouter, les aider à adopter une méthode de révision qui leur sied, à leur donner des conseils pratiques pour rattrapper leur retard dans des matières précises, à ne jamais baisser les bras devant leurs difficultées scolaires et à éviter les cours particuliers. Je n'ai pas cessé dans mes contacts avec…

Air pollution is worsening in Jakarta and West Java, while tens of millions of people experienced a day-long blackout earlier this month after gas-powered electricity generators failed and significant proportions of eastern Indonesia have do not have reliable power supplies. So why does Indonesia remain so reliant on fossil fuels? For an archipelago as large as Indonesia, located along the equator and on top of a ring of active volcanoes, you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking the nation could become one of the world’s leaders in renewable energy. In fact, Indonesia has the potential to generate 788,000 megawatts (MW) of power from renewable energy sources such…

Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and South Africa sounded the alarm at a conference in Johannesburg on October 15. Their gathering was titled: “The Holy Land: A Palestinian Christian Perspective”. One major issue that highlighted itself at the meetings is the rapidly declining number of Palestinian Christians in Palestine. There are varied estimates on how many Palestinian Christians are still living in Palestine today, compared with the period before 1948 when the state of Israel was…

        Le mode d'administration imposé par un régime socialiste dés 1962, a ouvert la voie à la médiocrité, le citoyen n’est pas amené à travailler avec conscience, à s’instruire, à innover et à créer la richesse grâce au savoir qu'il développe dans les ateliers, les laboratoires, les instituts scientifiques. Bien au contraire, s’installe une logique assassine qui réprime tout talent, toute volonté de création et d’épanouissement individuel…