Chronique d'un été de basculement

par Serge Van Cutsem

En l'espace de quelques semaines, l'été 2026 aura vu se répéter le même geste, avec une régularité presque mécanique : perquisitionner, placer en garde à vue, geler des avoirs, saisir du matériel, sans jugement, et sans même d'accusation formellement instruite. Le point commun de ces épisodes n'est ni la couleur politique des personnes visées, ni la nature exacte de leur discours, mais la logique qui les frappe toutes : neutraliser avant de juger, punir en dehors du procès.

par Philippe Bergerac

En mai 1937, George Orwell (qui combattait dans les rangs du POUM, Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, parti communiste anti-stalinien espagnol) assiste à Barcelone à la répression sanglante des ouvriers révolutionnaires par les forces staliniennes et le gouvernement républicain.

Les ouvriers révolutionnaires = les vrais communistes qui avaient aboli l'argent, l'État et le salariat dans des dizaines de communes autour de Barcelone et de l'Aragon : même si c'était fragile et non homogène, pendant plusieurs mois, dans des dizaines de villages et dans une partie de l'industrie catalane, on a réellement expérimenté autre chose que le capital, l'argent et le salariat.

On vous avait parlé de cela en 2012 : "Maintenant Big Brother vous observe VRAIMENT, des systèmes effrayants pour prévoir ce que les gens feront..." et encore, on a un peu d'avance : les prochains systèmes anticiperont ce que vous faites, ce qui était très bien expliqué (avec ses risques) dans " youtube ".

Au Royaume-Uni, la reconnaissance faciale en temps réel (LFR) franchit un cap.

par Mickaël Lelièvre

Trois mois après l'entrée en application de l'interdiction australienne des réseaux sociaux pour les moins de seize ans, le bilan livré par le régulateur national de l'internet, eSafety, est sévère : plus de huit enfants sur dix concernés par la mesure continuent d'utiliser ces plateformes, à une fréquence presque identique à celle observée avant le 10 décembre 2025.

par Planète vagabonde

Pendant les gigantesques incendies qui ont ravagé la Gironde, Thierry Calleau, citoyen engagé et libre penseur, avait reçu l'ordre d'évacuer sa maison de Saint-Médard-en-Jalles. Il a pourtant choisi de rester et s'est battu contre la menace des feux.

Dans ce témoignage inédit, il raconte ce qu'il a vécu au plus près des flammes, partage ses interrogations sur la gestion de cette catastrophe et livre une réflexion plus large sur notre rapport à la nature, à la peur, à la responsabilité citoyenne et aux crises qui bouleversent notre époque.

par Rastignac

Il suffit parfois de quelques minutes d'archive pour mesurer l'ampleur d'une évolution.

En écoutant cette classe de sixième filmée en 1972, on est frappé par la qualité de l'expression des élèves : un vocabulaire précis, des phrases construites, une pensée articulée, une aisance à l'oral qui surprend aujourd'hui. Ce ne sont p

By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org  

August 5, 2026

Economists who worry about wealth disparities between racial groups are preoccupied with addressing the causes of racial inequality. They all have different theories and explanations about the causes of racial wealth gaps, but the prevailing assumption is that some form of unfairness must be driving it.

The key form of unfairness thought to produce disparities in racial outcomes is discrimination.

By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation  

August 5, 2026

One of the things that has fascinated me ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation is why so many Americans continue to hew to statism. After all, just look around us. The statist systems that 20th-century Americans brought into existence have brought us a life of constant chaos, crisis, war, conflict, hostility, monetary debauchery, massive taxation, death, suffering, tyranny, and oppression.

Think Robert Oppenheimer, if Robert Oppenheimer had built a bomb that didn't work.  

By Alex Berenson
Unreported Truths  

August 5, 2026

Throughout the Covid epidemic, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci didn't know what he didn't know.

Worse, he didn't care.

Fauci's Covid "diary" - his musings about his Covid experience - have revealed his epic self-love to the world. But it's what the diary doesn't say that's the real problem.

Five months into the Iran conflict, supporters are asking whether America First still means fewer wars.  

By Brian C. Joondeph
American Thinker  

August 5, 2026

One of President Donald Trump's defining campaign themes was refreshingly simple: America should stop fighting endless wars.

He repeated that message across three presidential campaigns. Iraq was a mistake. Afghanistan became a twenty-year quagmire.

By Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns  

August 5, 2026

I'm an 80's child in the end. That means when I start working on a new project some random song or movie moment comes unbidden into my head from that weird and wonderful decade.

The movie Real Genius  youtube while Tears for Fears sets the tone for the fade out, of a house destroyed by popcorn. This classic comedy about smart kids outsmarting their professor, the odious Jerry Hathaway played to slimy perfection by Bill Atherton, who has them working on a "lasers from space" project for the MIC so he can make money is where my brain went today.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 5, 2026

"All Western nations are essentially on the same path to dispossession." See this.

Immigrant-invader elected to US Congress introduces bill to abolish US border protection.

White ethnicities in Europe, the UK, and the white former British colonies in the "New World" continue to actively participate in their own demise by encouraging massive inflows of hostile and unassimilable immigrant-invaders who are provided not only with material support by the white populations that are being overrun but also with legal privileges that the white citizens do not have.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com

August 5, 2026

Our naivete is being exploited so ruthlessly and with such abandon that the golden age of the Big Con is consuming itself.

Naivete is interesting because it's so easily confused with confidence, native optimism, youthful enthusiasm, and a host of delusions, including mistaking idealized fantasies and fairy tales as templates for the real world.

"I mean, it is a bit rich watching a BBC reporter act shocked and offended by somebody saying they think Jewish lives are worth more than Palestinian lives."  

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au  

August 5, 2026

The BBC recently interviewed an Israeli settler who said that all the Palestinians in four surrounding villages should be exterminated to avenge an Israeli who was killed while terrorizing a Palestinian village last month, adding that just a single Jewish life is worth ten million Palestinian lives.

Moon of Alabama  

August 5, 2026

Once again the U.S. president threatened to bomb Iran to smithereens. Once again he pulled back, while, once again, claiming that Iran was begging for negotiations, which, once again, Iran denied.

Welcome to Monday.

It is the fifth time Trump TACOed on bombing Iran.

Last Saturday, while the U.S. military was getting ready to (again) bomb Iran. Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of Iran, picked up the phone and called up his colleagues in the Arab Gulf states.

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

August 5, 2026

Spain has demonstrated precisely why government is so often the source of the crisis rather than the solution. The Sánchez government issued a sweeping royal decree to legalize hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, bypassed Parliament, and then acted astonished when people outside Spain interpreted the message exactly as any rational person would: enter the country illegally today and the politicians may legalize you tomorrow.

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup 

August 5, 2026

Three years ago, the prevailing assumption across Wall Street, the City of London, and most government institutions was remarkably simple: inflation would normalize, supply chains would heal, interest rates would eventually decline, and precious metals would once again retreat into the background as investors chased higher returns elsewhere. Gold, according to that narrative, had already enjoyed its moment.

Des Palestiniens de la bande de Gaza ont organisé des prières funéraires pour les 112 personnes retrouvées sous les décombres de leurs maisons détruites par Israël lors de la guerre génocidaire contre cette région côtière assiégée.

Mardi, des milliers de Palestiniens ont participé aux funérailles dans le quartier de Sabra, à Gaza, où les corps, recouverts de drapeaux palestiniens, ont été placés près des ruines des immeubles d'habitation détruits.