publié le 09/12/2025 Par Jack Thompson

Frontières et voies de communication naturelles, ressources halieutiques, fertilité des sols, les grands fleuves présentent de précieux atouts autour desquels des civilisations se sont bâties. Sans les richesses tirées du Nil, le rayonnement des empires d'Égypte aurait été bien moindre. Si de nos jours, la valeur des grands fleuves se mesure encore à l'aune de leur potentiel commercial et nourricier, leur apport en eau prime sur les autres considérations, la mainmise sur cette précieuse ressource attise les convoitises.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute 

December 9, 2025

Last week the Pentagon, under "War Secretary" Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America - most near Venezuela - and nearly 100 persons killed.

To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States.

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review

December 9, 2025

Our introductory history textbooks sometimes highlight some of the strange and amusing stories of the past. I think that most students must have cracked a smile when they read their chapter on eighteenth century European history and came across "The War of Jenkins' Ear."

As its comprehensive Wikipedia article explains, that major conflict fought between Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748 had been prompted by the mutilation of an alleged British smuggler by Spanish authorities a few years earlier, a brutal act that greatly outraged both the British people and their parliamentary representatives.

The remarkable changes on the horizon and forces conspiring to stop them

By A Midwestern Doctor

The Forgotten Side of Medicine

December 9, 2025

At a young age, after becoming aware of many of the issues in the world, I gradually got pulled into an addictive sea of negativity and frustration over how things were and the fact they kept getting worse. As this was not healthy or productive, in time, I decided the best way to cope with this situation was to shift my focus on what I could do to make things better and be at peace with the fact I was doing something rather than torn apart over everything I wished was different but was powerless to change.

By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse 

December 9, 2025

All over the globe, the digital control grid that we are all living in just continues to get even tighter. They are using facial recognition technology to scan our faces, they are using license plate readers to track where we travel, they are systematically monitoring the conversations that we are having on our phones, and they are watching literally everything that we post on social media.

By Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com

December 9, 2025

The US State Department has renamed the US Institute of Peace the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace, proclaiming that it did so "to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history."

"President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace," tweeted Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the announcement.

Earlier this year the president's intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard made a similar social media post, tweeting that "President Trump IS the President of Peace.

By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com 

December 9, 2025

When it comes, it comes on slowly
The day feels holy, a hush falls down
Whispered names, remembered faces
From desperate places, all gather 'round
- Tom Paxton,  youtube

Early morning and the first heavy snow is falling. It is beautiful. I walk around the lake in the holy hush. Alone except for two newly arrived ducks swimming on an open patch of icing water.

By Eric Zuesse

Eric's Substack

December 9, 2025

Yesterday, on Friday, a Reuters exclusive news-report about a potentially mega-historic change in America's international relations and the world's future, headlined "Exclusive and opened:

The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org 

December 9, 2025

If President Trump's 2025 national security strategy document means anything, and I hope it does, the Union of Atomic Scientists can move back the hand on the doomsday clock a couple of hours. If President Trump's strategy can survive the opposition of interest groups and the ideological left of the Democratic Party, and is continued by his successors in office, President Trump has indeed changed the course of America and the world.

By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com 

December 9, 2025

"Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering."

~ Christopher Dutton

My message today is a far cry from my normal effort to find truth and expose corruption, in that this will be more of a philosophical wandering. Maybe it is time to step back and take a hard look at the world, and the consuming nature of its madness and brutality that lives and breathes throughout every moment of our lives.

AI is a new tool for government elites' coercion. The rest of us will struggle, but we will prevail and grow freer.

By James Anthony 

December 9, 2025

To remain competitive, humans must show up.

Humans add the most value in high-income nations. In these nations, humans' total fertility rate has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1974.

On top of that, today's artificial narrow intelligence is a mixed bag.

Par Al-Mayadeen

Avec la végétation rasée et les ruches détruites, l'industrie apicole de Gaza lutte pour sa survie, tandis que les agriculteurs s'efforcent de maintenir en vie les abeilles restantes malgré le blocus et les bombardements israéliens.

Autrefois réputée pour ses vergers d'agrumes et son miel riche, l'industrie apicole de Gaza a été pratiquement réduite au silence par le génocide israélien à Gaza.

Par Larry Johnson
Arrêt sur info — 09 décembre 2025

La capacité militaire de l'Ukraine à combattre la Russie sur le champ de bataille diminue rapidement, alors que font l'Ukraine et ses alliés de l'OTAN  ? Produire encore plus de propagande insignifiante destinée à convaincre les Américains et Européens crédules que l'Occident doit continuer à fournir de l'aide économique et militaire à l'Ukraine parce que l'économie russe est en train d'imploser.

J’ai été récemment interviewé par Glenn Diesen, que je remercie abondamment pour son invitation et son travail extraordinaire. Les vidéos sont ci-dessous, en anglais et aussi avec doublage français.

Emmanuel Todd

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Emmanuel Todd est démographe historique, auteur à succès et intellectuel de premier plan en France. Emmanuel Todd a prédit l’effondrement de l’Union soviétique en

Par Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

Les mesures coercitives imposées à la Russie s'avèrent de plus en plus être des politiques véritablement suicidaires pour plusieurs pays européens. En excluant les sources d'énergie russes bon marché et abondantes, de nombreux pays européens sont devenus extrêmement vulnérables, mettant en péril leur propre sécurité énergétique et économique.

Giulio Chinappi

Le recenti dichiarazioni di Tokyo su Taiwan travalicano la legalità internazionale e la stessa Costituzione pacifista giapponese. La Cina rivendica ragioni storiche e giuridiche solide; al Giappone spetta rispettarle, rinunciando a ogni tentazione di riarmo e ingerenza.

L'inasprimento retorico del governo giapponese sulla questione di Taiwan, culminato nelle affermazioni che descrivono uno scenario di "minaccia alla sopravvivenza" per il Giappone in caso di uso della forza nello Stretto, rappresenta un salto di qualità nell'ambiguità strategica di Tokyo: non più semplice oscillazione tra cautela diplomatica e allineamento alle dinamiche alleate, ma predisposizione a legittimare un ruolo di intervento fuori dallo spirito e, in larga misura, fuori dalla lettera della legalità internazionale e dei vincoli costituzionali interni.

Par Michael Leonardi, le 5 décembre 2025

Francesca Albanese, rapporteure spéciale des Nations unies sur la situation des droits de l'homme dans les territoires palestiniens occupés depuis 1967, représente une menace systémique et existentielle pour le discours de la "civilisation occidentale" et le mythe de la suprématie colporté quotidiennement par l'establishment. Dans l'univers médiatique italien, Maurizio Molinari (ancien directeur de La Repubblica et La Stampa) et le commentateur télévisé Davide Parenzo incarnent parfaitement cette gangrène systémique, constituant deux des pires exemples de la domination du sionisme dans les médias italiens.

Par George Samuelson, le 8 décembre 2025

Maintenant qu'il siège au conseil consultatif de l'une des entreprises de défense les plus rentables d'Ukraine, Pompeo n'a aucune raison de modérer son discours en faveur de la guerre, pas plus que de faire obstacle aux intérêts de l'entreprise.

Avec un passé bien chargé, Mike Pompeo a rejoint une grande entreprise ukrainienne de défense qui produit des armes susceptibles de toucher Moscou.