Du 12 au 15 juin, le monde de l'archéologie va se mobiliser contre les attaques contenues dans la loi de simplification de la vie économique. Le 4 avril 2024 lors de sa visite sur le chantier de restauration du château de Dampierre (Yvelines), Rachida Dati annonçait une nouvelle législation contre l'archéologie préventive. Accusant les archéologues de « faire des fouilles pour se faire plaisir », « creuser un trou pour un trou », elle voulait une nouvelle loi adaptée au bâti ancien (…)

Depuis le retour de Trump, Israël a abandonné toute prétention à l'autodéfense. Mais tout en évitant de rendre des comptes, il a consolidé son héritage en tant que paria mondial. Des Palestiniens pleurent les corps de leurs proches tués lors d'une frappe militaire israélienne sur Gaza, à l'hôpital Al-Shifa dans la ville de Gaza, le mercredi 4 juin 2025. [Du 27 mai au 3 juin, 102 Gazaouis à la recherche désespérée de nourriture ont été tués et 490 ont été blessés, selon divers rapports. (…)

With a prime minister who campaigned on the promise that there won't be a Palestinian state on his watch, and as Israel bombards Gaza and takes unilateral actions to ultimately annex Palestinian territories, no one can say with a straight face that there's only one rejectionist in this conflict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a map of “The New Middle East” while addressing the UN General Assembly in New York last year.Credit: Noam Galai Hamas rejected a cease-fire deal (…)

“The blood and flour can be seen in a photograph from Gaza that was published this weekend: It shows a mangled corpse with flour scattered over it mixed with the blood on the body into a horrific, pink-hued paste. The face of the deceased is covered with a tattered jacket; he was one of dozens who were killed at the food distribution center in Gaza that the Israel Defense Forces turned into another death zone.” Israeli tanks taking position next to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid (…)

Sri Lanka's latest anti-corruption crusade promises to cleanse the state of venality, yet mirrors the same neoliberal prescriptions that created the crisis in the first place. The IMF's governance diagnostic, echoed by liberal NGOs and now the National People's Power government, treats corruption as a technical problem requiring institutional fixes—conveniently ignoring how structural adjustment programmes systematically dismantle state capacity whilst enriching private capital. This (…)

On the margins of official institutions, independent sociologist and community blogger Vitalie Sprînceană applies himself to thinking about the world that was and the one that is coming. Against all odds: a certified minority, but a putative spearhead. Chișinău (Moldova)– The visitor from the western part of the Old Continent struggles to find a left-wing conscience in “the other Europe,” that is, the former people's democracies beyond the former Iron Curtain. And for good reason, since (…)