« Quand l’Etat finance les médias, il les contrôle »
L’État suisse veut aider les médias… au risque d’en faire des médias d’État. Les opposants dénoncent une dérive antidémocratique.
Étiquette : Politique
« Avant la fin du monde, la fin du mois ! »
Les citoyens suisses ont refusé l’interdiction des pesticides et les taxes climatiques, mais accepté les mesures anti-terroristes et l’élargissement des pouvoirs du gouvernement. Le pays se retrouve divisé entre villes et campagne comme jamais auparavant. Comment, pourquoi ? On vous dit tout.
Les révélations sans fin des Monsanto Papers
Les millions de documents internes que Monsanto, le leader mondial des pesticides a été contraint de rendre publics depuis mars 2017 n’en finissent pas de raconter une histoire effarante de corruption, de collusion et de manipulation scientifique à l’échelle planétaire. La World Company, en vrai.
Are Chinese the Jews of Asia?
To say that China is a growing concern in the Philippines is an understatement. Let’s start with the sovereignty dispute over the West Philippines Sea / South China Sea. That whole area, of the highest economical and strategical value, has been recognized by a decision of the United Nations’ Permanent Court of Arbitration as belonging …
After I read this article’s conclusion, listing the main problems plaguing Philippines politics right now, I thought of the situation in Switzerland. Radically different for sure (we don’t have extrajudicial killings), yet feeling just as gloomy. The Swiss list could go something like this: The seething resentment of the poor over the booming price of …
In the Philippines, Facebook IS internet
Internet neutrality is slowly disappearing everywhere, but in the Philippines it is already dead and gone, it probably never even existed. There are only two telecom companies, Globe and Smart, resulting in a bad duopoly situation. For no reason, I am with Globe, but I am pretty sure Smart is just as bad. In Port …
Knocked down, but getting up again
FINALLY I am able to leave the nightmare that Kapares had become behind me. It was a good lesson, though a pretty expensive one, and I learned a lot. First of all, I learned that you really, REALLY should be careful who you associate yourself with. My former associate’s real passions (and I’m sure he …