Brigitte challande, 18 février 2026.- Une analyse approfondie d'Abu Amir le 17/02 : la société vit une crise ouverte.
"La réalité de la bande de Gaza ne peut être appréhendée comme une crise passagère ou une phase temporaire. Il s'agit plutôt d'une situation prolongée, façonnée par des années d'accumulations politiques, économiques et sécuritaires, au point que la vie y est devenue une épreuve humaine particulièrement rude.
Brigitte Challande, 18 février 2026.- Abu Amir écrit, dans ce compte rendu hebdomadaire des activités éducatives, comment Gaza sauve ce qui reste de son enfance. 16 février.
"À Gaza, l'éducation n'est plus un événement rythmé par la sonnerie de l'école ni lié à un bâtiment à étages. Ici, l'éducation est un acte silencieux de survie, une tentative quotidienne de saisir un sens stable dans un monde qui se désagrège sans cesse.
Aziza Nofal, 16 février 2026. Pour la deuxième année consécutive, Nevine Hamad constate la chute des notes de son fils Jalal al-Din, pourtant classé parmi les trois meilleurs élèves de sa classe.
Selon l'UNRWA, environ 90 % des écoles de la bande de Gaza ont été endommagées ou détruites par l'occupation israélienne lors de la dernière guerre.
Désormais au deuxième trimestre de troisième, ses compétences sont nettement inférieures à ce qu'elles étaient il y a quelques années.
By Ilana Mercer
February 18, 2026
The Iranian January 2026 protesters were acting out-of-character. More like Israelis than ordinary Iranians; these protesters appeared to have been thoroughly Israelized. ~ilana
I'll stifle the impulse not to say the obvious, and say it: An Israeli-American regime-change operation is underway in Iran.
It's "right out of the US-Israel playbook" for such operations, notes Professor John Merisheimer, a scrupulous scholar of "great-power politics." Or, more precisely, of naked imperial power.
Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo review Amir Naderi's film The Runner, which explores themes of self-resilience, innovation, and voluntary exchange through the story of eleven-year-old Iranian orphan Amiro.
By Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo
Libertarianism.org
February 18, 2026
The Criterion Channel's recent streaming of Amir Naderi's The Runner (1984) http://www.newsnet.fr/1 offers North American viewers the opportunity to experience a classic of Iranian cinema.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
February 18, 2026
Trump's cancellation of the so-called "endangerment finding" with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House back in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump's spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins. Among countless others.
The entire notion that fossil-fuel-based industrial civilization threatens to boil the planet alive is sheer crackpottery.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
February 18, 2026
Inflation, bailouts, and ultra-low interest rates have widened the wealth gap in the United States. This is no natural market phenomenon, but is driven largely by monetary inflation which always benefits some groups at the expense of others. This has become more apparent during our current age of cronyist interventionism which accelerated following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
February 18, 2026
US policymakers, particularly under the current Trump administration (as of February 2026), consistently describe Iran as the world's leading or foremost state sponsor of terrorism. This characterization has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy toward Iran for decades, with Iran designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S.
US mostly dodged disaster this time. But what if Net Zero mandates aren't adjusted or ended?
By Paul Driessen
February 18, 2026
Winter Storm Fern (January 23-27) dumped heavy snow and ice on more than 240,000,000 Americans across 40 states and 2,300 miles, beginning in Arizona and wrapping up in Maine.
Scores died, including 20 in New York City, where Mayor Mamdani refused to close homeless camps or compel "unhoused residents" to move indoors, instead letting them rely on the "warmth of collectivism."
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
February 18, 2026
In our discussion on Monday, Nima and I examine the problematic situation in which Netanyahu has placed US President Donald Trump.
Trump's threats to Iran are just an example of his method of negotiation by making threats to encourage a deal after which the threats are withdrawn. I do not think that Trump intended to attack Iran.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
February 18, 2026
History repeats. (Or it rhymes, depending on your choice of words.)
Throughout history, there has been an extraordinary tendency for governments (and cultures) to follow similar paths. Even regarding eras thousands of years apart, we see people behaving in much the same way, over and over. This is particularly true in the case of "wrong moves." Over and over, people and their governments make the same mistakes, seemingly never learning from past errors.
West Jerusalem has moved to register large areas in the occupied territories as "state property" for the first time since 1967
RT News
February 18, 2026
The Israeli security cabinet has approved a proposal to register large areas in the West Bank as "state property" for the first time since occupation began in 1967 following the Six-Day War.
The new decision builds on a move by the cabinet last weekend, when it made it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land in the West Bank and repealed a law dating back to times of Jordanian control over the area to make land registries public rather than private.
By Tom Mullen
Talks Freedom
February 18, 2026
Libertarians are often characterized as a fringe movement, advocating limiting government far beyond what most Americans would even consider, and prone to promoting conspiracy theories.
All of that is true.
That doesn't mean we aren't right, even about the conspiracy theories. We almost always are. We were right about the war on terror. We were right about Obamacare.
By Sheryl Collmer
Crisis Magazine
February 18, 2026
Something big is happening, an earthquake. More than an earthquake, it's an asteroid slamming to earth. And we might be the dinosaurs, depending on what we do about it.
The Epstein Files: a short name referring to a huge phenomenon, and it's so much bigger than one player. The disclosures mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act expose a fraction of the global network of evil: satanism, child abduction and sacrifice, and even more monstrous acts committed by very powerful people at the heads of nations and industries.
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Equipe israélienne de bobsleigh
Le commentaire d'un journaliste sportif sur un athlète israélien provoque une polémique internationale, évoquant son soutien à l'armée de Tsahal dans son offensive à Gaza. La RTS a depuis retiré la séquence, tandis que critiques et soutiens s'affrontent. L'incident relance le débat sur la neutralité politique aux Jeux olympiques.
par Peter Hänseler
Les masses se réjouissent de la chute des riches et des puissants, embourbés dans des imbroglios pervers que l'on considérait autrefois comme de simples théories du complot. Nous posons des questions dangereuses, car la perversion sexuelle n'est pas le problème le plus fondamental.
Introduction
Trump publie des documents mais perd le contrôle du récit
par Mounir Kilani
Du Rwanda à l'Ukraine, de l'Algérie au Groenland, chaque geste mémoriel devient un levier diplomatique, une monnaie politique, une capacité de dissuasion - et le passé n'est plus neutre : il se gouverne, se monnaye et se brandit comme une arme. Bienvenue dans l'économie globale de la mémoire.
Les excuses et les réparations ne relèvent plus du repentir moral ; elles sont devenues des instruments de calcul stratégique.