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Julian Assange

617 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

Gwenaël Breës

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LEVEL 4, DEGREE ZERO OF INFORMATION

It all started like a bad hangover on a Saturday morning, a week after the Paris attacks, with the announcement of a similar " serious and imminent " (level 4) threat in Brussels. An alert level determined by the...

Eurocrats in need of love

Lhe international press has recently been buzzing about the signs of hostility in Brussels against the Eurocrats. "Eurocrat, use your tie" says a slogan painted on walls and posted as stickers illustrated by the drawing...

ATTACKS ON HEARTS AND MINDS

" We live in a rather unpleasant world, where not only people, but the established powers have an interest in communicating sad affects to us. Sadness, sad affects are all those that diminish our power to act. The...

STARCHISTEM

For the past few years, architectural stars have been designing "grand gestures" in Brussels and other Belgian cities... But how is this surge of (stock market?) listed architects a guarantee of intelligence, democracy,...

The nightmare of the permanent theme park

A MODERN AND FAIRY TALE It was a small town, an old locality divided into 19 small entities, which one day became a region in its own right. Capital of course, but of a small country, a bastard and complicated kingdom...

In the open country

It was summer. The vacations... I had forgotten how good it feels to see the landscape, to leave one's habits behind while basking in the sun and the water; how quickly the time passes with nothing to do; how violent...

Sing and bewilder with Renaud*.

A year ago, Renaud Séchan reappeared after a long absence, remembering those who, like me, have forged a part of their political culture and their critical spirit in his company. Haunted by his disappearance, I am...

From the bar to the barricades

Infiltration, manipulation, amateurism, beginning of insurrection, gratuitous and blind acts or wild carnival...? What happened on November 6 in the margins of the national demonstration? At first glance, the demonstration...

The cinema at the time of the programmed obsolescence of the digital

After household appliances, hi-fi and computers, a new bastion is falling into the hands of the permanent obsolescence industry: the cinema. While the magnetic tape or the audio cassette are distant memories, while...

After me the deluge

Before retiring "prematurely" from the presidency of the Brussels Region (in the middle of the legislature, but after 20 years of power all the same), Charles Picqué took one last big decision: to offer the banks...

Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow…

Unemployed workers, if you have to visit your union, don't go without taking some precautions. In particular: take away from reading. Our advice... It is too narrow to contain the line of unemployed people that...

UGLY, DIRTY AND NASTY

A very complicated notion to handle in the debates on the city is that of the "beautiful" and its corollary: the "ugly". When they enter the discussion, beware of the slippery slope! There are many parameters that...

Ears to the bone

4h37. Suddenly, a shrill ringing sounded at regular intervals. I am startled. The dreams in which I was immersed evaporate in a few seconds. Two hours ago, I had been awakened from my slumber by a bunch of party...

A LITTLE BREVIARY OF PEDESTRIAN NOVLANGUE

Under the sympathetic appearance of allowing "citizens to reappropriate public space", the pedestrian area that many Brussels residents had called for has been transformed into a theme park project flanked by its...

« WE WON’T ANSWER YOU, IT’S NOT THE SUBJECT OF THE EVENING

Participatory democracy", often brandished as a given in political speeches, is never really defined and very rarely transcribed into legal provisions. Fortunately, from Namur to Brussels, it can count on elected...

THIS IS NOT A PEDESTRIAN AREA

On June 29, "Europe's largest pedestrian mall" and its new traffic plan begin to be implemented. More than ever, the City of Brussels is burning the midnight oil. But be careful: this pedestrian path is not a pedestrian...

« No democracy without disobedience to treaties » (Greek adage)

" We will be original, respecting after the elections what we said before " , predicted Alexis Tsípras. A few months later, it is clear that the originality lies elsewhere: a new austerity package is endorsed by...

« Le Soir » on pedestrianism: a GPS that goes wrong

I hadn't read it in a long time. The drop in the bucket was one of those promotional campaigns that underline their own emptiness as they try to sell a product on "values" that are not his own: "Le Soir stands up...