LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Clément Guntern | As September's general elections for the Bundestag draw nearer, there's an unexpected topic on which Germany's environmentalists could make the most profound changes since the end of the war. And it's not just the fight against climate change.
The desire of various countries to increase the proportion of biofuels in petrol highlights some important issues: the difficulty of a truly beneficial ecology, but also the essential role of governments in promoting value-based policies in the face of a globalized economy that seems to know only profitability as a criterion.
Editorial by Jonas Follonier
Communitarian discourse, currently in vogue and carried by minorities in need of an existence rather than victims of real repression, is torpedoing the fine 19th-century idea that the freedom of minorities should be preserved and defended, by transforming it into a weapon against freedom of expression, which includes, among other things, the right to humor. It is to be feared that the controversy provoked by French-speaking comedienne Claude Inga-Barbey's sketch dramatizing the difficulties of naming gender transformations illustrates an era marked by the thought police. From a philosophical point of view, this situation conceals an opposition between two types of universalism, that of proclaiming the rights of Man versus the rights of men.
Editorial by Jonas Follonier
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Clément Guntern | Just as parliamentary elections were taking place, the Burmese army stunned the world by taking back power by force. After just two months of protests, the Burmese state is in danger of becoming yet another failed state, with all its consequences in a region that is becoming increasingly central.
Couple to the city, Kaddour Chouicha and Djamila Loukil, respectively vice-president of the Algerian League for Human Rights (LADDH) and journalist, are being prosecuted in Algeria on suspicion of links with political Islam, which they categorically deny, calling themselves «secular». The democratic uprising that began in 2019 and which they support is increasingly described as infiltrated by Islamists. Kaddour Chouicha answered Regard Libre's questions.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Jean-David Ponci | On considère habituellement qu’avec Obama, les Etats-Unis commencent à renoncer à leur rôle de gendarmes du monde. Ce mouvement s’accélère avec Trump, dont le slogan «America First» sonne le repli des USA sur eux-mêmes. Toutefois, c’est curieusement à la fin du mandat de Trump qu’un nouveau pouvoir mondial, toujours en mains américaines, fait montre de sa puissance. Les GAFAM, acronyme pour les grandes entreprises Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon et Microsoft, censurent certains contenus pour des raisons politiques, révélant aux yeux du monde, scandalisé, qu’ils ne sont pas que des fournisseurs de service. Cette situation historique est propice à une réflexion sur les conditions à fournir pour garantir la liberté d’expression sur le Net. Analyse.
HUMOR BRIEFING, Antoine Bernhard | As early as 2016, the entire press - or almost all of it - made Trump its new scapegoat. It was declared over and over that he had «stolen» the American election, that he was illegitimate and that the United States was entering the darkest period of its history because of him. Four years on, the situation has hardly changed: anti-Trumpism is the only politically correct opinion. Any questioning of the majority discourse is scorned, immediately associated with the far right or conspiracy. It's time to give up this easy way of thinking.
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