War of Civilizations

By Hamid Alizadeh Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands of defenceless Rohingya Muslims are fleeing the brutal onslaught of Myanmar's armed forces. In...

By Jackson Diehl December 11, 2016 Donald Trump is about to lead the West into the third and darkest phase of its 15-year quest...

Dans l'autre débat d'entre-deux-tours, Alain Finkielkraut et Régis Debray, deux brillants esprits, s'affrontent pour L'Express sur la géopolitique.   Dans Civilisation, Régis Debray convoque un géopoliticien...

Le Pen: ‘I Will Bring Islamist Fundamentalism to Its Knees’ by Victoria Friedman. 4 Apr 2017 At a rural town hall meeting in La Bazoche-Gouet, French...

FAR-RIGHT political movements and parties across Europe have exploited popular discontent to gain political power, emboldening some of the most racist, xenophobic and reactionary...

Dutch secret services conducted an investigation into suspicions that Geert Wilders, head of the anti-Islam Party for Freedom, was strongly influenced by top Israeli...

By Micah L. Sifry Original post date: 8 February 2017 What does Stephen Bannon really believe? Because he hasn’t spoken much in public since becoming, as...

There is a long tradition in Germany of organizing state provocations for political purposes. In 1933, the Nazis organized the Reichstag fire and declared a semi-blind Dutch communist to be the sole perpetrator in order to crush the Communist Party and pass the Enabling Act, which sanctioned Hitler’s dictatorship.

If somebody asked me, in 2016, why I still consider myself to be on the Left, then I would undoubtedly start from my thoughts about the historical shift that occurred with the atomic bombings of two Japanese cities on 6th and 9th August 1945. Yet I would be the first to admit that the question of these weapons of mass destruction (and other such weapons) transcends the traditional spectrum of political ideologies, including those of the Left and of the Right.

Blood-curdling proposals for the persecution of Muslims played a central role in Trump’s election campaign. At one moment, he promised to stop all Muslims from entering the US, though this was later changed to “extreme vetting”. The use of torture by water-boarding was approved and applauded, and Hillary Clinton was pilloried for not speaking of “radical Islamic terrorism”.