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EDITORIAL: European digital sovereignty — the Franco-German paper arrives late, but it matters
On June 17, 2026, France and Germany co-signed a joint document titled the Franco-German Joint Paper on Digital Sovereignty — a policy text intended…
ESSAY: The Iran-USA 14-point deal — what the text says, omits, and truly threatens
On June 20, 2026, after weeks of secret negotiations conducted under American and Israeli military pressure on Iranian nuclear sites, the Trump and Pezeshkian…
DECODING: Trump sacrifices American housing on the altar of the SAVE Act and the filibuster
On Wednesday, June 24, 2026, Donald Trump was supposed to sign on Capitol Hill the most significant housing legislation in decades. The 21st Century…
COLUMN: Beijing and Africa — zero tariffs for 53 nations, free trade as an instrument of empire
On May 1, 2026, China officially implemented what Xi Jinping had announced on February 14, 2026 at the 39th African Union Summit in Addis…
OPEN LETTER: To Vladimir Putin — You Can Win Battles, but Not History
I have no illusions. You will not read these lines. You do not read Canadian columnists who write from countries where freedom of the…
NARRATIVE: Pyongyang Tests Its Weapons on June 25 — The Date as a Declaration of Intent
There are coincidences, and there is Pyongyang. In Kim Jong Un's dictatorship, nothing happens by chance — not the images distributed by KCNA, not…
INVESTIGATION: Trump, Tariffs and the Courts — The White House Seeks an Elusive Legal Basis
In less than four months, two top-tier American courts invalidated the legal foundations of Donald Trump's trade tariffs. On February 20, 2026, the U.S.…
FACT-CHECK: The EU-USA Trade Deal, Torpedoed in 48 Hours by Trump?
On Thursday June 25, 2026, the member states of the European Union gave their final green light to the trade agreement concluded with Washington.…
ESSAY: DeepSeek V4, Open Source as a Geopolitical Weapon
On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek released on Hugging Face two models under an MIT license: DeepSeek V4-Pro, a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1.6 trillion total…