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June 15, 2020, 4:26 p.m. EDT Author: Erick Cakpo, Historian and Researcher, University of Lorraine Disclosure statement: Erick Cakpo does not work…

Ali Babar Kenjah The controversy that has healthily accompanied the “déchoukaj” organized on March 22 by the radical RVN resistance movement has…

May 15, 2020 The acute nature of the coronavirus stems largely from the threefold convergence of immediacy…

CRISIS NOTEBOOKS: NOTES FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S POLITICAL OBSERVATORY, JACQUES DELORS INSTITUTE This note is the first in a series…

To believe in the current oil industry by banking on a continuous rise in demand for fossil fuels. Or to…

May 18, 1896: The Supreme Court upholds the «Jim Crow» laws. The «Jim Crow» laws, so named after a character…

January 12, 2020. Author: Stéphane Lemercier, Lecturer – Member of the Montpellier Criminal Law Team (EDPM), University…

The photo: In front of a middle school in Lyon on May 18, 2020. The first phase of «reopening» is gradually getting underway…

March 7, 2017 Author: Dominique Steiler, Holder of the Chair in Mindfulness, Workplace Well-Being, and Economic Peace, Grenoble École de…

Here is my point of view (naive, perhaps, but well-researched). It is the point of view of a citizen who, above all…

Every day, at the start of the school day, the students would copy a moral maxim. Or a quote from…

June 4, 2020, by Michele Pedinielli – In the spring of 1921, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, experienced one of the worst riots…

A Scientific and Political Issue Let us examine a fundamental issue: the slave trade and its relationship to Africans.…

Op-Ed – On May 22, the anniversary of the slave uprising in northern Martinique that precipitated the implementation…

June 15, 2020, 4:27 p.m. EDT Author: Mélissa Fox-Muraton, Professor of Philosophy, Groupe ESC Clermont Partners Groupe ESC Clermont provides…

COVID-19: Why Didn’t God Prevent the Pandemic? Source: Aleteia Catholic Website | April 28, 2020. The crisis…

Figures from a Memorial Epic on the Slave Route in Benin: Oblivion and Return. Figures in a Memorial Epic on…

By Patrick Criqui, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and the University of Grenoble Alpes, and Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of IDDRI and Sciences Po…

June 1, 2020 | By Thierry Pech, CEO of Terra Nova We have entered a period of chronic instability…

By André Torre, Director of Economic Research at INRA, AgroParisTech – Université Paris-Saclay. The question is haunting, and is becoming…

June 9, 2020 Laurent Joffrin’s Political Column The global protests against police brutality…

Protesters filled the new Black Lives Plaza, near the White House, on June 6, 2020, in Washington,…

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Pandemic: French People Increasingly Reluctant to Accept Measures That Restrict Civil Liberties April 22, 2020, 9:56 p.m.…

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«I don't know what to think anymore,» people are saying on social media. «This isn't going to end well at all.» Since…

1The accelerating instability of the world is evident. It encompasses both the growing disorganization of the various levels of life and the increasing scarcity…

By Valérie Zeitoun, Associate Professor, IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School, and Géraldine Michel, Professor, IAE Paris – Sorbonne…

Black and white people who have refused to allow themselves to be locked away in the solidified Tower of the Past will be liberated. I am a…

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I find it hard to understand the insistence on invoking history in this matter of the Schoelcher statues. He…

  VATICAN The Pope spoke on the occasion of Pentecost in a video message in Spanish. 20 Minutes…

Academic rigor, journalistic flair Photo: On the banks of the Seine on May 11. In the current crisis,…

By Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Professor at Panthéon-Assas University, and Bruno Deffains, Professor at Panthéon-Assas University and member of the Club des…

The United States has been rocked by protests for several days following the death of a Black man during his arrest.…

by ORUNO D. LARA CERCAM «SCHŒLCHER, too, is an artist who is making his way toward fame, with a certain…

Mame-Fatou Niang and Julien Suaudeau — May 21, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. It is up to the members of the National Assembly, where the web…

Julien Suaudeau Where does the indifference surrounding the long history of police repression against minorities come from? Photo: Mural by…

BARNABÉ BINCTIN MAY 28, 2020 Basta! : One interpretation of the COVID-19 crisis is to view it as a form…

An Open Letter to the President of the Republic: Patrick Karam, 52 public figures, and 133 organizations denounce the «lack of resources»…

That's it! The lockdown is lifting. Everyone's asking the same question: Can life…

A group of so-called young activists violently destroyed the two statues of Victor Schœlcher while filming themselves and…

Speech delivered on July 21, 1945, by Aimé Césaire on the occasion of the traditional celebration honoring Victor Schoelcher. It…

Those who believe that a statue of Victor Schoelcher was torn down in Fort-de-France on May 22 of last year are blind…

This virus is giving us a real run for our money. Celebrating Labor Day in lockdown. Would you have believed it? That the streets of…

by Thomas Baïetto As you might expect, the end of an epidemic depends closely on the specific characteristics of the microbe responsible and on…

Rokhaya Diallo — May 8, 2020, at 8:59 a.m. — In their articles on the COVID-19 pandemic, the media tend to…

Ephemeral Journal of Decolonial Analysis / April Raoult, Didier What does Professor Didier Raoult of the IHU Méditerranée Infections in Marseille…

The Conversation. May 22, 2020, 2:15 p.m. Authors: Michel Callon, Professor of Sociology, Mines ParisTech; Pierre Lascoumes, Emeritus Research Director…

The CEOs of 163 major companies, including Nestlé, Accor, Orange, Schneider Electric, Ecovadis, Sopra Steria, and Suez, are calling on governments…

OP-ED: Fred Eboko, Political Scientist and Sociologist In an op-ed for *Le Monde*, researcher Fred Eboko discusses the…

Rokhaya Diallo — May 20, 2020, at 9:17 a.m. — updated May 20, 2020, at 9:37 a.m. The injunction against…

April 19, 2020, 1:56 p.m. EDT Author: Flore Gubert, Research Director, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) Partners…

 «EXCELLENCE» AND «RELEVANCE» PUT TO THE TEST BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Xavier Maurange (XM): Sir…

Academic rigor, journalistic flair May 12, 2020, 3:18 p.m. EDT Author Jérôme Pozzi, Associate Professor of Political History, University…

May 20, 2020 | By Alexandre Perra, Executive Director of the EDF Group in charge of Innovation, Corporate Responsibility, and…

As France prepares to begin lifting lockdown restrictions, questions are being raised about the necessity of the lockdown—or at least about its…

Academic rigor, journalistic insight Author: Phillip I. Lieberman, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Disclosure statement: Phillip I. Lieberman has received…

Crash: This health crisis, like a tree obscuring the forest, masks the greatest economic and financial crash in the history of…

May 18, 2020 | By Guillaume Hannezo, Associate Professor at the École Normale Supérieure 1 The tool, developed as a matter of urgency, deserves…

Photo: The 60-year-old Franco-Iranian woman is a renowned anthropologist. MAXPPP Published on May 17, 2020 This iconic researcher was…

Lifting Lockdown Restrictions, or the Return to the “New Normal” By Sylvain Garraud, naturopath at Réseau PureSanté. Lockdown restrictions are being lifted, and the return…

United States: Why Black People and the Poor Are Most Affected by COVID-19 April 19, 2020, 2:01 p.m. EDT more on this…

Author: Marius Bertolucci, Associate Professor specializing in public management. Member of the Society for the Philosophy of Management Sciences…

May 15, 2020 | By Hugues Lagrange, CNRS Sciences Po, (he has just published *Les Maladies du bonheur*…

Authors: Francis Akindès, Professor of Sociology, Alassane Ouattara University of Bouaké; Bernard Taverne, Anthropologist, Physician, U1175, Research Institute for…

Biodiversity in Health, Climate, and Societal Crises. May 14, 2020 | By Philippe CLERGEAU, professor at the National Museum…

«Cogito, ergo sum»—“I think, therefore I am,” as Descartes said. Let’s try turning that statement around: in the age of the coronavirus, I…

Debate on the Delay Caused by COVID-19 in the Implementation of the AfCFTA By Andrew Skipper, Attorney…

The Implications of the Karlsruhe Constitutional Court’s Ruling: Sovereignty, Independence, and Unilateralism By Valéry Denoix de Saint…

The Avia Law, or the Triumph of the Self-Righteous Robots: Bernanos was a prophet when he foretold the reign of robots, «a conspiracy…”

Civil liberties and measures taken to combat the spread of COVID-19: individualism subordinated to a logic of…

Debate: When «Free Choice» Masks the Disciplinary Society Denounced by Michel Foucault May 11, 2020 Author: Elsa…

The Staging of Objects in Provincial Colonial Salons (1850–1896) (Herodote Website) Toward the Emergence of Exhibition Models…

«Seize the opportunity in our misfortune!» An op-ed by 17 members of Parliament: Olivier Becht, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, Paul Christophe, Laure de La Raudière, Agnès…

Einstein's Two Mistakes Scientific research is based on the correspondence between the reality of nature—which is…

«No to a Return to Normal»: From Robert De Niro to Juliette Binoche, an appeal by 200 artists and scientists. By…

Chronicles of the Phoney War. (Lockdown / Reopening.) Ali Babar Kenjah: A Brief Semiology of Lockdown. Lockdown / Reopening: A Central Element…

Debate: Scholars and Politicians in 2020—A Haphazard Partnership? May 6, 2020, 2:44 p.m. EDT Author: Mathieu Schneider, Assistant Professor of Musicology,…

  Post-COVID: Legal Tools to Combat Environmental Degradation May 6, 2020, 2:45 p.m. EDT Author: Marta Torre-Schaub, Research Director…

Why We Can't Say That «Pollution Spreads the Coronavirus» May 6, 2020, 2:44 p.m. EDT • Updated May 7, 2020, 6:38 a.m.…

Environmental and Health Co-Benefits of Public Policy. By Patrice Geoffron, Paris-Dauphine University, …

Education systems are in crisis all over the world. Here's how they will recover April 13, 2020, 4:54 p.m. CEST…

Climate Action After the COVID-19 Crisis: Even More Necessary, Even More Difficult. April 29, 2020. ANALYSIS BY JEAN PISANI-FERRY From…

Thinking About the Future: Toward a School Focused on the Essentials. We have just endured, one after another, two shocks that are forcing us…

COVID-19 and International Law: What «Sanctions» Against China (Continued and Concluded)? By Thibaut Fleury-Graff, Professor…

Health/Economy: The Terrible Trade-off [Who, apart from collapse theorists, could reasonably have imagined that in the 21st century this question would…

That diabolical postilion, Roland Jean-Baptiste-Edouard. The six-volume *Le Robert*, on page 363, gives us the definition of the word…

Teachers are essential during this coronavirus crisis. Have we forgotten that? April 7, 2020. Authors: Olivier Arvisais, Professor, Department…

Debate: To Tackle Crises, Let’s Develop «Learning Communities» Authors: Marie-Cécile Naves, Ph.D. in Political Science,…

Maurice Lévy: «The only way to fight back is to communicate with truth.» May 3, 2020 Maurice Lévy, president…

And every night we clap. Now that’s a great idea! As my friend Zéphyrine would say, “Let’s thank everyone…”

Souleymane Bachir Diagne: «Africa benefits from its very confidence in life itself.» In lockdown in New York, the intellectual…

«Coronavirus: When the Pandemic Drives Technological Advancement.» Opinion piece by Dr. Ghanimi Rajae, April 30, 2020. «Remote work will be the…”

When a Little Unity Would Do Us Good… APRIL 23, 2020 Written by Emmanuel de Reynal and published on Overblog…

Remarks by President Alfred MARIE-JEANNE, Videoconference with the President of the Republic, Thursday, April 30 … My sincere thanks for the initiative…

IT'S THE VIRUS'S FAULT The virus is spreading across France It's just bad luck Everyone has…

Hotel and Tourism Association Guadeloupe Hotel and Tourism Association Guadeloupe Hoteliers' Club Tel: 0590.84.90.90 – Fax…

«Coronavirus: Coping with the Emergency and Moving into the Next Phase» André Lucrèce, Louis-Félix Ozier-Lafontaine, Sociologists Our observations and reflections lead us…

What Is a «Crisis»? April 14, 2020, Author: Ousama Bouiss, Ph.D. candidate in strategy and organizational theory, University of Paris…

CHRONICLES OF THE PHONEBOOTH WAR #2 / Ali Babar Kenjah A BRIEF SEMIOLOGY OF LOCKDOWN Social distancing / preventive measures…

Coronavirus: Alert on Misinformation and Cyberattacks Published on April 22, 2020 – Legal Information Directorate and…

Trust and consent are at the heart of efforts to control the coronavirus. April 22, 2020 | By Sebastian Roché, Director of…

CHRONICLES OF THE PHONETIC WAR #2 / Ali Babar Kenjah A BRIEF SEMIOLOGY OF LOCKDOWN Real name I will call it desert…

Solidarity Put to the Test by International Cooperation. April 21, 2020 | By Matthieu Angotti. After holding various positions…

Facing the Wall of Exponential Growth April 18, 2020, 2 Author: Roland Lehoucq, Astrophysics Researcher, French Energy Agency…

Pierre Vermeren: «The Health Crisis: A Revealer of France’s Decline. In a wide-ranging analysis, the scholar—a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and holder of the agrégation…

The Quarantine of the European Convention on Human Rights. By Frédéric Sudre, Professor Emeritus, University of Montpellier…

In Times of Crisis, Beware the Return of the Scapegoat April 9, 2020, Authors: -Angela Sutan, Professor of Behavioral Economics,…

Thinking About the Future: How Can Camus Help Us Emerge from the Crisis? April 17, 2020,…

Risk Management: Overseas Territories to See a «Worsening» of the Covid-19 Situation Within 3 to 4 Weeks 04/14/20 – 3:42 p.m. For the…

Aerosol Transmission of COVID-19: Implications for Public Health We are a multidisciplinary, international group of experts who…

How Can We Learn from South Korea’s Response to COVID-19? South Korea’s Crisis Management System. April 16, 2020…

Videoconferencing and Social Interaction: Let’s Bring Magic Back to Our Daily Lives April 14, 2020, 7:15 p.m. CEST Author: Stéphane Safin, Lecturer and Researcher in Ergonomics, Télécom…

Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic: Toward a Human-Centered Approach to Lifting Restrictions. Press Release from the National Academy of Medicine, April…

When Lockdown Might Be an Opportunity… APRIL 15, 2020 Written by Emmanuel de Reynal and published on Overblog When…

Lockdown: A Time to «Rethink Our Relationship with Time» For many, time seems to drag on during this coronavirus pandemic…

As the outbreak levels off in several European Union member states, governments have already begun implementing measures to…

Republic Bank (EC) Ltd Joins the Fight Against COVID-19 in the OECS OECS Press Release Tuesday, the 14th…

What does the state of emergency mean for the present and the future? By Françoise Favennec Hery, professor at Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University…

Turning Lockdown into an Adventure Hans Lucas via AFP Lockdown: An Adventure to Discover New Paths? That’s the…

Christian churches in France issue a joint appeal The Aleteia editorial team. In a joint message released on Sunday…

Lockdown: A Study to Assess Its Psychological Effects SCIENCE March 27, 2020 Anne Giersch, director of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory and…

Coronavirus. Laurent Berger calls calls to work more after the crisis «indecent.» For Laurent Berger, the…

Coronavirus: Humans Must Stop «Disrespecting» Nature, Warns Jane Goodall AFP It is our «disrespect» for the environment that…

The Virus Has Not Overcome China’s Lack of Transparency March 24, 2020 | By Chloé Froissart, Associate Professor of Political Science…

Small Businesses and SMEs: A Plan to Emerge from the Crisis. April 8, 2020 | By Michel Guilbaud, Former CEO of…

STATEMENT BY FORCES VIVES OF MARTINIQUE Fort-de-France, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 The public health situation in Martinique is…

April 6, 2020 | By , a faculty member and researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CRI) and co-coordinator of the health division at Terra…

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of international law in strengthening a «social health pact.» By Hélène…

»The CTM has a vital role to play, in partnership with the government." Hervé Brival interviewed Francis Carole, a council member…

COVID-19: «We are called to endure this ordeal with the strength and honor that come from being human,» Brother Rémi…

Coronavirus: Be careful not to overdo exercise or engage in intense physical activity, especially if you have a fever (Source: Le Figaro.) In the event that…

Coronavirus and Vaccine Trials in Africa: WHO Condemns «Racist» Remarks and a «Colonial Mentality» The televised exchange between…

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the urgent need to protect nature. In an op-ed published in the *Journal du dimanche*, the director of…

The Epidemics That Changed the World Many believe that the coronavirus pandemic will profoundly transform our…

Coronavirus: «Comments on LCI that are an insult to Africa and humanity» The Esprit d’ébène association…

   March 27, 2020 | By Laurent Berger, General Secretary of the CFDT The health crisis we are currently facing has two…

  April 3, 2020 | By Mathis Cohen, coordinator of Terra Nova’s digital division, and Simon Matet, coordinator of the…

«And everything came to a halt… This world hurtling like a racecar on its wild ride, this world that we…”

Jean-Philippe NILOR, Member of Parliament for Martinique 12, 97228 SAINTE-LUCE, 12 Rue Paul LANGEVIN jean-philippe.nilor@wanadoo.fr peyia.martinique@gmail.com Marcellin NADEAU Mayor of Le Prêcheur City Hall…

  To view this email in your browser Share this selection MARCH 30, 2020 – No. 923 HEALTH COVID-19:…

Subject: Combating COVID-19 Dear Prefect, Please allow me to bring this matter to your attention following the letter regarding…

        ………… The idea of bringing Cuban doctors to Martinique to address the shortage or lack of doctors in…

A summary of an interview by Tara Schlegel with Didier Sicard, an infectious disease specialist who has spent a significant amount of time working on…

Cergy, March 30, 2020 Mr. President, «I’m writing you a letter/ That you may or may not read/…

Doctors, Not Bombs Our country doesn’t drop bombs on other peoples or send thousands of planes…

One-third of the world’s population is currently under lockdown. Three billion people are forced to stay indoors to stop the spread of…

Lessons from the Crisis The health crisis we are currently facing has two competing effects on social relations: on the one hand,…

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmental activist who has become the face of COP24: We need a new way to…

These images are now everywhere in news reports: women, children, men, the elderly, college students, schoolchildren, both able-bodied people and those with disabilities—everyone…

It was therefore in 1163 that construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is said to have begun. On many occasions, it was very…

As Cannes hands out its awards, Christophe Barbier presents his awards to the politicians who made their mark this year. Just as…

New Edition. Karthala «Here you will find the result of two years of passionate work that brought together a group of…”

by Livie PIERRE-CHARLES Every new school year brings innovations of varying degrees of sustainability. This year’s innovation focuses on—and not…

A two-lane, two-way road is being built along the Lamentin-Robert corridor, but this is now causing serious problems for families…

Anniversary of September 1870: Everyone to Rivière-Pilote. At least, that’s what the »patriotic» organizations—APM, CNCP, MIM, and others—want:

This is an issue affecting the residents of Fond Giromon in Le Lamentin, who are suffering and will be adversely affected by the implementation…

Annual General Meeting of the «Tous Créoles!» Association Last Saturday, September 3, 2011, about fifty members of «Tous Créoles!»…

YLM—everyone knows him—publishes numerous opinion pieces, most of which are very insightful, on issues related to…

HERE IS THE STATEMENT FROM CLAUDY SIAR, INTERMINISTERIAL DELEGATE FOR OVERSEAS TERRITORIES: «Pierre-Just Marny committed suicide in his cell, according to Claudy Siar,…

Following Ms. Penchard’s reactions and decisions, here is a PRESS RELEASE from the UGTG—Regarding the events that took place in…

Edouard Delépine (EDL), a member of the PPM and of 'Together for a New Martinique,» has just told Gérard Dorwling-Carter (GDC),…

A protest took place this Monday in front of the Haitian consulate in Guadeloupe, calling into question the actions (or inaction) of the current consul, Ms. …

Following our article announcing two books published by Oruno D. LARA, one of which deals with the period of liberation…

How can we explain why Cyrille Bissette’s role—and his name—are so little known in Martinique? Is it because of his…

By Gracienne LAURENCE From the Paris offices of the Secretariat for Health, Prof. Didier Honsin, Director General of the…

The fact that a woman was elected president of the General Council for the first time: «…actually…”

The King is dead; long live the Queen. What we see on TV during meetings of elected officials…

How many of us, as residents of Martinique, are aware of the major global issues? Not the tremendous social movement and…

By Mike Irasque On June 1, 2010, a joint committee, composed of elected officials from the Regional Council and the General Council, …