Nous étions trois pour inventorier les insectes de cette session : Pierre Rousset, Axel Dehalleux et André Lantz. D'autres membres de l'association Beaumonts Nature en Ville nous ont rejoint, ainsi que quelques personnes se promenant la nuit dans le parc. Au total douze curieux et curieuses se sont succédés lors de cette observation. La LépiLED a été allumée vers 22h et éteinte vers 1h 50. Le drap vertical a été disposé, comme en avril 2026, au moyen d'une corde attachée à une branche (…)

Natural disasters have the uncomfortable ability to reveal the harsh truth of a situation. They do not cause crises on their own; they simply strip away the facades concealing them. The two major earthquakes that recently struck Venezuela, with epicentres in Caracas and La Guaira, not only shifted the tectonic plates of the Caribbean and South America, but also completely shattered the political, social and economic normality in a country already struggling, with great effort, to get back on (…)

Patricio Abinales examines the case of the Filipina-American activist Chantal Anicoche, captured by the Philippine army during an immersion tour in a New People's Army guerrilla zone in Mindoro. Writing from a critical-left position, Abinales argues that the Communist Party of the Philippines' rural insurgency has been steadily weakened over the past two decades by improved counterinsurgency technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the wholesale loss of the second generation of cadres in the (…)

La fin provisoire de la canicule ne doit pas effacer son brutal enseignement : le monde où l'on ne pouvait pas mourir de chaud dans l'un des pays les plus riches du monde ne reviendra plus. Le temps est venu du deuil, de la colère et de l'action. Enfin la pluie. Et avec elle l'oubli ? Les averses orageuses et les masses d'air plus fraîches qui doivent s'étendre vers l'intérieur du pays pendant le week-end vont aussi faire pleuvoir un sentiment de soulagement et l'envie de tourner la page. (…)

On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office, demanding enforcement of Articles 54 and 96 of the Social Security Law and an end to the deductions taken for what the state calls “supplementary insurance.” According to the labor news agency ILNA, the protest looked much as it had in previous weeks. It was not a new event but the continuation of one that has not (…)

Western military aid has kept Ukraine fighting; it has not been calibrated to let Ukraine win. Ths reflects West European interests: Berlin, Paris and London want a settlement that contains Russia without provoking the regime collapse a Ukrainian victory might trigger. Behind the visible story of delays and conditions in weapons system delivery lies a less visible European leverage — debt. Three-quarters of Ukraine's public debt sits with EU, IMF and World Bank creditors, on terms that (…)