There is a big and sad difference between the life that right-wing extremists and left-wing extremists are forced into. The latter have to choose clandestinity, and depend on organisational and financial aid from foreign powers and criminal forms of self-financing, such as bank robberies or kidnappings. Quite
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Perhaps we have been too pessimistic. Perhaps, in the ocean of information that drowns the net, in addition to deliberately false information there are truths that, with difficulty, come to light and then finally assert themselves – like the one that, over the past three years, has
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“Any technological innovation can be dangerous: fire has been so from the beginning, and language even more so; you could say that both are still dangerous today, but no man could be said to be so without fire and without speech”. This was said by science fiction
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In the US mid-term elections in January 2023, Ron DeSantis, a Republican, was re-elected as Governor of Florida. In his state, he managed to win seats in areas traditionally held by Democratic candidates. He did this by waving the flag of religious extremism, managing to
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The British referendum campaign to leave the European Union marked the point of no return of a structural crisis of information and, therefore, of the entire democratic system. A British company created a new market sector, social manipulation, building a public campaign made of lies, millions of
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In the future, when historians and sociologists write about the defunct American experiment, they will have to see that, despite the rhetoric about freedom and equality, this immense country is a cesspool of racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, anti-scientific obscurantism, ignorance and – above all –
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At the end of the 1960s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defence was the first agency to initiate an interconnected communication project called ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. Things have changed a lot since then, as the Internet, with its
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For years, competitors of PMI Philip Morris International (and especially BAT British American Tobacco) have been claiming that PMI also sells its cigarettes through smuggling. According to many observers, international cigarette smuggling takes place using four main hubs: Greece, South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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A handsome young man walking behind Carla Bruni. He accompanies her and Nicolas Sarkozy to important appointments. He discusses money, careers and billionaire contracts. The press discovers him and puts him on the grill until the whole Sarkozy galleon is sunk. But not him. Grégoire Verdeaux is
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Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for “flying” thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and
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