Etiket: Taillefer
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Salman Rushdie, free thinker
In Joseph Anton, an autobiography (2012), Salman Rushdie writes that literature serves “to augment the sum of what human beings are capable of perceiving, understanding, and therefore ultimately being”. Monday,…
A fiasco all along the line, the editorial by Guy Taillefer
The appalling chaos to which the American withdrawal gave rise, after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban a year ago to the day, will have been in the image…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Progress and concessions
All that for this ? Less than 100 days before the midterm legislative elections and in a context of deep Democratic disappointment with President Joe Biden, the Senate’s adoption on…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] A danger named Modi
In her time, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated in 1984, ruled India with an iron fist, thanks to the unchallenged political domination exercised by the Congress party until the end…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] From Moscow to Riyadh, turbines and tyrants
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was fully right to protest against Ottawa’s decision (“We must increase the pressure, not reduce it…”), and the Ukrainian diaspora to be alarmed. Sending back…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Tunisian-style democracy?
Is President Kaïs Saïed liquidating the Tunisian Arab Spring, the only one that survived the popular uprisings of 2011? Out of nowhere, theoutsider and conservative constitutionalist won the Tunisian presidential…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Joe Biden’s dangerous indecision on abortion
Within American civil society, resistance is being organized after the invalidation, a little over two weeks ago, of the judgment Roe v. wade by the United States Supreme Court. But…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Exit from the stage of a liar
So Boris Johnson has finally resigned himself to resigning. It was not too early. Caught up by lies and scandals, he resigned himself to it on Thursday, not without impenitence,…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Macron’s failure
“I will do everything, during the years to come, so that they [les électeurs de Marine Le Pen] no longer have any reason to vote for the extremes. » Said…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Republican Corruption
Full beating of Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s candidate for the United States Supreme Court; acquaintances of the wife of ultra-conservative judge Clarence Thomas with the disturbed world of Donald…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The gun party
In an emergency, the West was forced to support the heroic Ukrainians with arms, so much does their resistance hold on the moral level of a “just war”. But indirect…
[L’éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The Ukrainian friend
Imagine… Can you imagine your cities being bombed? The brief speech delivered to the Canadian Parliament from kyiv on Tuesday morning by President Volodymyr Zelensky was bound to be disturbing.…