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Julian Assange

588 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

Robin Delobel

Diplômé de journalisme à l'ULB, objecteur de croissance

A participé à plusieurs livres sur la dette écologique et l'extractivisme, ainsi qu'au livre de Rob Hopkins Ils changent le monde.

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Digital revolution and acceleration of the ecological debt

What is the link between digital technology and ecological debt? For years, we have been hearing that digital technology is immaterial, the knowledge economy, it seems. Despite some awareness on the ecological impact...

Journalism and government responsibilities

The questioning of the Prime Minister by the editor of Kairos led to reactions ranging from indifference, to contempt, to criticism of the form. On the substance very few reactions. There was no solidarity from other...

THE DEBT, A TOOL FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PEOPLES

2010, the debt crisis is in full swing and is making headlines in all media. Six years later, exceptionally low interest rates temporarily put aside discussions of "too much" public debt and repayment problems. The...

FROM COPYING TO POPULAR ECOLOGICAL NARRATIVES

In spite of the beautiful promises and great announcements made in order not to lose face, the political "leaders" who are supposed to represent the populations of their countries opt for ever more repressive policies,...

BEN ALI’S ODIOUS DEBT: BELGIAN GOVERNMENT KILLS SENATE RESOLUTION

At the end of the international conference on investment, held in Tunis on November 29 and 30, the French and Belgian governments announced the conversion of part of their claims on Tunisia in investment projects,...

« THE DEBTS LEFT TO US BY NUCLEAR POWER

Nuclear power is rarely mentioned when we talk about ecological debt. This industry and its numerous pollutions represent however the most extreme illustration of what the ecological debt means "the debt accumulated...

BELGIUM IN THE MIRROR: THE QUESTION OF THE RESTITUTION OF AFRICAN CULTURAL GOODS

A few weeks before the reopening of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervueren, mobilizations are organized for the restitution of objects looted during the colonial era and enshrined as works of art in European...

TRANSITION TRAP ?

Many environmentalists, long-time or more recently acquired to the cause, develop a total confidence in the so-called renewable energies in opposition to the Evil that constitute the fossil energies. Renewables would...

VISIT TO THE « ASSISES OF ATTENTION », PARIS, FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Who would have bet a kopek that attention, this so natural human faculty, would have been the subject of a specific conference in 2020? However, on February 1st, this was the case in Paris, where the first "Assises...

OPEN FORUMS FOR TRANSHUMANISTS

L'Obs, an old reputable French weekly, had the headline on October 17 "Artificial intelligence disrupts our lives. "On the cover, a portrait of Yann Le Cun on tour to present his book Quand la machine apprend. This...

POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY

On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, the House of Books organized a debate entitled "Progress chosen or suffered?" Several representatives of the parties of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Ecolo, CDH, PS, MR and PTB)...

THE CRIME OF CHOLERA IN HAITI

Ten years ago, on January 12, 2010, a devastating and deadly earthquake struck Haiti. A tragedy that cost the lives of nearly 300,000 people. Following this natural disaster, international aid poured in and the military...

5G AT THE HEART OF A CHINA-US COLD WAR?

The opposition between the United States and China, presented as a legal and commercial battle, in reality masks a conflict for political and technological leadership driving economic growth. While we are witnessing...

5G AND ECOLOGY

At the time of the climate demonstrations and the parties of all sides seem to agree, in the speeches, on a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the decisions taken by the politicians rather indicate a mad race...

DEBT AND HEALTH CRISIS

March 2020 outbreak of the crisis, which crisis? The social, ecological, economic and civilizational crisis... which was already very perceptible? Or rather the health crisis following the global coronavirus pandemic?...

INTEGRATING THE CRITIQUE OF THE DIGITAL INTO THE ECOLOGY

Since the summer of 2018, protests in response to the ongoing environmental disaster show the rising level of concern. Thousands of people regularly take to the streets to express their anger at the damage. Ecology,...