America signed the trade accord, but Europeans are frustrated. It could change forever the mechanics of the American alliances, with earth-shattering fallouts. It’s common—almost universal—Europeans complain about the trade agreement they just signed with the United States. Moreover, will the tariffs America has imposed on half the world be effective? The issue is highly controversial, […]
Stable-currency could further divide the USA and China, with one country embracing it and the other rejecting it. The two are re-engineering themselves in different directions. Who will be right? American stable currency, based on crypto, promises to change the US and the world with it. Yet China is very cautious. It’s not just money; […]
The violence of the clash between Israel and Hamas cannot leave theology indifferent—not even Christian theology. If only because the merciless situation it has produced since October 2023 is taking place in a land that is in some way “holy” to the three Abrahamic religions that inhabit it. But above all because every time there […]
The Cardinal offered himself in return for the Israeli hostages right after Hamas’ massacre. The offer could now help to break a deadlock in the region. It’s resurfacing on the web (see here), the October 2023interview (see here) where the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, offered himself in exchange for the release of Israeli […]
The history of the CPSU, the CPC, and the global situation don’t push Xi’s China toward democratic reforms. But domestic contradictions create fissures that could be hard to control otherwise. In 2012, the year Xi Jinping took power, it was the 63rd anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) rule in China. It was a […]
The modern enlightened thought has made out of the working hypothesis «etsi Deus non daretur» a kind of procedural dogma of its attempt to bring order to our world. Sometimes, in doing so, it has shown an intransigence worthy of the most rigorous religious belief. It often forgot that «living without God» is certainly possible—but […]
The Israeli bombing of the Church of the Holy Family raises bigger questions about the future of Israel. Does it want to live under siege, or does it want to become a powerhouse integrated into the region? The Holy Land is made up of symbols and of symbolic places. Jerusalem is the holy city of […]
