Category: Culture

Day of interprofessional mobilization: demonstrations everywhere in France

Several unions had called the French to mobilize everywhere in France on Tuesday, against the social policy of the government. Nearly 300,000 people demonstrated in several regions of France according to the CGT. Some universities have been blocked [ . . . ]

Source: Interprofessional mobilization day: events all over France

Farmers in French Pyrenees try to scare bears to Spain

Farmers and hunters in the French Pyrenees have attempted to move two female bears towards the Spanish side of the border using “scare tactics”.

According to reports, this weekend around 100 shepherds, farmers, hunters, and local government members from the Ossau valley, the Hautes-Pyrénées, and the surrounding areas, met up in the mountains in an attempt to move away two female brown bears that had just been released.

The gendarmerie confirmed that “some” farmers, hunters and ministers “had started a battle of scare tactics in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques” [ . . . ]

Source: Farmers in French Pyrenees try to scare bears to Spain

Les temps de la fin (avant la fin des temps)


Every day brings a lot of alarming news about the planet, always darkening our horizon. Never have we been so informed about the inevitability and imminence of what is looming: the end of the world, nothing less. And yet? We know and yet we can not really believe it. In a brief and dense essay, Pierre-Henri Castel think lucidly the new situation in which we find ourselves, the time of the end that open, prologue to the end of time. He will be joined in the second part, the writer David Diop, author of the literary season Brother Soul, a novel seized with the question of evil through the figure of a Senegalese soldier plunged into madness trenches WWI.

Listen at: Les temps de la fin (avant la fin des temps)