Alger a tout intérêt à entretenir de bonnes relations tant avec Moscou qu’avec l’Occident, mais comme Poutine fait durer le conflit, la donne pourrait changer. Source : Responsible Statecraft, Emily Milliken, Giorgio CafieroTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Denis spent his last day of military leave celebrating Christmas with friends in Kyiv. Two weeks after returning from positions near Bakhmut, the site of the most brutal fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the 18-year-old private first class and his friend Dmytro still find it difficult adjusting to civilian life. “For me, it’s tough to be in society with civilians and to socialize with them,” said 20-year-old Dmytro, who is also a private first class in the Ukrainian military.

We take a look at the top stories of the year.

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Glass Act: Scientists Reveal Secrets of Frog Transparency (Maria)

This summer, WhoWhatWhy once again ran its popular Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP). Five college students and recent graduates, some of whom were completely new to journalism, spent three months learning the craft and honing their skills.    The result was an impressive array of stories. Here is a selection of them.  

 

In early 1997 the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen Charles Krulak issued an order authorising the use of video... The post US Marine Corps Order on Using Video Games for Military Training first appeared on Spy Culture.

La Réserve fédérale tente depuis des mois de provoquer une récession, et les Américains ordinaires en subissent les frais. Pendant ce temps, sans le pansement des taux d’intérêt bas, nous constatons qu’une grande partie du monde des affaires américain a été construit sur la fraude. Source : Jacobin Mag, Branko MarceticTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Loïk Le Floch-Prigent : Ingénieur et ancien PDG de Elf Source : Thinkerview, Youtube, 14-12-2022

In the video we reveal who made our naughty and nice Christmas list for 2022.

Selon Le Soir de Bruxelles, les enquêteurs belges viennent d'ouvrir une nouvelle piste dans l'affaire des corruptions au Parlement européen : le Prix Sakharov pour la liberté de penser. Institué en 1988 sur proposition du Français Jean-François Deniau, le Prix Sakharov, du nom d'un célèbre dissident soviétique, a été profondément réformé en 2003. Il n'est plus aujourd'hui décerné qu'à des personnalités soutenues par les États-Unis. Il honore désormais « une réalisation particulière dans un des domaines (...)

Finkelstein comments: A correspondent recently wrote me that, whereas it used to be that a typical teacher in his district had 20 years teaching experience, now it’s down to four years’ experience.  (He himself just left the teaching profession after a brief stint.)  I asked him what accounts for the quick exodus from teaching.  Here’s what he responded. The root cause is economics without question. I can summarize the largest factors, but it will hardly capture the entire problem.  

“You break it, you buy it.” This is a rule most Americans who have ever purchased anything in a store are familiar with. But when it comes to his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk, true to his image as a “disruptor,” has turned that rule on its head. His mantra seems to be, “You buy it, you break it.” He certainly seems to be well on his way to screwing up the popular social media platform. And that is his right, according to the rule in America that matters above all: the rule of money.  

The CIA recently launched a new outreach effort – its own podcast.  In this subscribercast I review and analyse The...

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Hours after Russia bombarded cities throughout Ukraine with 70 missile attacks on November 23 that left at least 10 people dead, a family in Kyiv sang happy birthday to a little girl in a pizza restaurant.   

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Ces neuf derniers mois, le débat sur la guerre russo-ukrainienne a fait apparaître plusieurs carences à mesure qu’il se développait. Source : The National Interest, Paul R. PillarTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises