The burning wreckage seen in this photo is that of the private jet of Yevgheny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary troops who had challenged Putin earlier this summer by directing his tanks, stationed on the Ukrainian front, towards Moscow[1] . The plane crashed for reasons
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Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains an immense open-air laboratory of what Africa could be and what, unfortunately, it still is. Certain choices made by Nelson Mandela in the name of the hope of integration have created undesirable and certainly unpredictable side effects.
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Maxim Shugaley, a Russian sociologist who became famous for films made about his misadventure in Libya, is the new head of the Russian network in Africa that runs mines, consults for governments, mercenary troops, smuggles of all kinds, and has become a power comparable to that of
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As it was during the Cold War, the confrontation between East and West is taking place not only on the Donbass border, but everywhere – wherever there are organised forces to overthrow the existing precarious equilibrium. This has been the case in Niger, one of the poorest
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‘The only way not to go mad was to drink the blood of the communists we were killing: if you can drink their blood you know you can do anything’. This is not a line from a Quentin Tarantino film, but the testimony of a militiaman of
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Myanmar continues in a free fall towards the abyss: the country, led since February 2021 by the criminal government of General Min Aung Hlaing, after the coup d’état that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and repressed dissent with brutal violence, is increasingly in
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More than ten years after the bloody end of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, Libya continues to be a nation split in two: on the one hand the pro-Western government in Tripoli, led by Fayaz Al-Serraj, and on the other hand the pro-Russian government of General Haftar, which controls
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In the opening scene of the 2005 film ‘Lord of War’, Nicolas Cage, dressed impeccably in a war scene, the ground strewn with thousands of machine-gun shells, explains: ‘There are 550 million firearms in circulation in the world, one for every 12 people. My question is: how
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An American company, DST Digital Sky Technology, born as a rib of NASA, but financially supported by the Russian oil giant Gazprom and directed by two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner), launches micro-satellites into orbit that allow the planet to be monitored inch by inch, and
Read more →German generalist TV has successfully launched some formats that were unknown to me: reality shows about military exercises that praise war (title: we defend Germany); or following the work of traffic police who give fines to motorists; or showing maramalos who cheat tourists; and, last but not
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