Here is a link to an English translation of an article by Erick Duchesne, a tenured professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, who shares «the view that the United States is grappling with a constitutional crisis that heightens the risks of civil war».
Le professeur titulaire au Département de science politique de l'Université Laval, Erick Duchesne, affirme dans une lettre ouverte, que les États-Unis vivent une crise constitutionnelle qui pourrait mener à une guerre civile.
https://www.noovo.info/chronique/etats-unis-attachez-vos-ceintures-le-pire-est-a-venir.html
#Etats-Unis #GuerreCivile #Constitution
"En remplaçant des chefs militaires expérimentés (dont le seul "défaut" est d'être noir ou une femme) par des loyalistes (comme un homme blanc à la retraite), Trump a compromis la neutralité de l'armée, un pilier essentiel de la démocratie américaine.
(...) Par ailleurs, l'administration tolère, voire encourage, l'émergence de milices armées pro-Trump, contribuant à un climat de tension exacerbé entre factions de l'armée régulière, milices privées et forces locales. La grâce présidentielle accordée aux insurgés du 6 janvier 2021 pointe directement en cette direction."
(...) On peut d'ores et déjà affirmer que les États-Unis sont engagés dans une crise constitutionnelle.
(...) la polarisation accrue et le renforcement d'acteurs armés, qu'ils soient issus de l'armée traditionnelle ou de milices privées, placent le pays au bord d'un conflit interne majeur, avec le risque latent d'une guerre civile."
Le professeur titulaire au Département de science politique de l'Université Laval, Erick Duchesne, affirme dans une lettre ouverte, que les États-Unis vivent une crise constitutionnelle qui pourrait mener à une guerre civile.
https://www.noovo.info/chronique/etats-unis-attachez-vos-ceintures-le-pire-est-a-venir.html
#Etats-Unis #GuerreCivile #Constitution
A quote from a Ukrainian blogger named Yarema Dukh regarding recent events https://www.byteseu.com/769871/ #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #UkraineConflict
(ChatGPT) In the 1920s, Poland and Ukraine conducted joint military operations against Soviet Russia. In April 1920, Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski and the leader of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, Symon Petliura, signed a military alliance aimed at creating an independent Ukraine allied with Poland. This collaboration led to the Kiev offensive in May 1920, where Polish and Ukrainian forces initially took control of Kiev before being repelled by a Red Army counteroffensive.
In contrast, during the 1940s, relations between Poles and Ukrainians were marked by tensions and conflicts, notably due to the massacres of Poles in Volhynia between 1943 and 1944, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists. These events left deep scars in the relations between the two nations.
Thus, while Poland and Ukraine collaborated militarily against a common enemy in the 1920s, the 1940s were characterized by internal conflicts rather than joint operations against Russia.
Europeans certainly have a lot to think about following the American repositioning. Nine authors contribute their thoughts.
On 'Nos X Connect' you can log in to your X account and add your Nostr identities so that everything you publish on Nostr will be mirrored on X.
Paradoxically this video convinced me to use Firefox as my default browser.
Michael Moore declares his belief in people power and democracy. “Take America Back Again!”
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/overwhelm-overreach-overthrown
As we prepared for tonight's USA-Canada hockey game, some at the White House couldn’t resist making a few questionable jokes. President Trump referred to ‘Governor Trudeau,’ the press secretary joked about Canada being the ‘51st state of the USA,’ and Vice President Vance even threatened to raise tariffs if Canada lost the game. Anyway, here’s a video in their honor!
FIRST PHOTO OF HOSPITAL DIRECTOR DR SAFIYA INSIDE ISRAELI PRISON
Al Mezan’s (Palestinian NGO) lawyer met with Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya in Ofer Prison, where he was held in solitary confinement for 25 days. Dr. Safiya was forcibly stripped, shackled with his hands tightly bound, made to sit on sharp gravel for five hours. He also endured beatings with batons, electric shock sticks, and repeated blows to the chest. 10 hours of interrogation significantly worsened his health.
First photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, inside Israeli prison:
Src: Drop Site News, EuroMed
#Gaza #Hamas #Palestine
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Paul Henderson is one hell of a guy
On the RDI 24/7 news channel in Montreal, tonight's USA-Canada hockey game is regularly mentioned along with the unfunny jokes of President Trump about "Governor Trudeau", the White House spokeswoman about Canada being the "51st state of the USA" and Vice President Vance about raising tariffs if Canada loses the game...
Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy. And not only that, the government knew that she was not a spy and executed her anyway.
https://www.rfc.org/blog/2025-02/rep-jim-mcgovern-issues-ethel-rosenberg-apology-house-floor
Well, I sincerily believe that this movie is even better. (I don't share the link of Prime Video because I boycott Amazon for what they did in my country, Quebec.)
https://tv.apple.com/ca/movie/le-dernier-samourai/umc.cmc.4vzvtd5vh1p5isy91y7zsj0y9
Maybe the best movie ever.
https://www.paramountplus.com/movies/video/SardOY1SQbBQyV25S7zbvtjcstI60fQ1/
Thomas Piketty: 'Trump's national-capitalism likes to flaunt its strength, but it is actually fragile' - 2025.02.18
This article by Thomas Piketty has, in a way, convinced me that the tariff war will indeed take place. Moreover, the Trumpist nationalism-capitalism he describes—authoritarian and the most aggressively extractivist—places Canada in the position of a coveted target.
The fact that “if the Republican Party has become so nationalist and virulent towards the outside world, it is primarily due to the failure of Reagan-era policies, which were supposed to boost growth but instead reduced it and led to the stagnation of incomes for the majority” is of little consolation.
*“Let’s be clear: Trumpist national-capitalism loves to flaunt its strength, but in reality, it is fragile and on edge. Europe has the means to confront it, provided it regains confidence in itself, forges new alliances, and calmly analyzes the strengths and limitations of this ideological framework.
Europe is well-positioned for this: it has long based its development on a similar military-extractivist model, for better or worse. After taking control of maritime routes, raw materials, and the global textile market by force, European powers imposed colonial tributes throughout the 19th century on all resistant countries, from Haiti to China to Morocco. On the eve of 1914, they engaged in a fierce struggle for control of territories, resources, and global capitalism. They even imposed tributes on each other, increasingly exorbitant ones—Prussia on France in 1871, then France on Germany in 1919: 132 billion gold marks, more than three years of Germany’s GDP at the time. As much as the tribute imposed on Haiti in 1825, except this time, Germany had the means to defend itself. The endless escalation led to the collapse of the system and European hubris.
(…)
If we reason in terms of purchasing power parity, the reality is quite different (…) With this measure, we (…) see that China’s GDP surpassed that of the United States in 2016. It is currently more than 30% higher and will reach twice the U.S. GDP by 2035. This has very concrete consequences in terms of influence and investment capacity in the Global South, especially if the United States locks itself into its arrogant and neo-colonial stance. The reality is that the United States is on the verge of losing control of the world, and Trumpist outbursts will change nothing.”
I had an issue with zapping in Damus, the icon didn't show under the notes. I activated the script at https://zap.army/ and restarted the app and now it's fine!
OK, I was pressing as if to write a comment rather than displaying the note with its comments. Rookie mistake.
I had an issue with zapping in Damus, the icon didn't show under the notes. I activated the script at https://zap.army/ and restarted the app and now it's fine!
Of course I had previously connected a wallet to the application and if the zap option had worked well for a while the icon had eventually disappeared and reconnecting the wallet had no effect. That's when I used the mentioned script.
I had an issue with zapping in Damus, the icon didn't show under the notes. I activated the script at https://zap.army/ and restarted the app and now it's fine!
Of course I had previously connected a wallet to the application and if the zap option had worked well for a while the icon had eventually disappeared and reconnecting the wallet had no effect. That's when I used the mentioned script.
I had an issue with zapping in Damus, the icon didn't show under the notes. I activated the script at https://zap.army/ and restarted the app and now it's fine!
Of course I had previously connected a wallet to the application and if the zap option had worked well for a while the icon had eventually disappeared and reconnecting the wallet had no effect. That's when I used the mentioned script.