Caricature de Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
mercredi 26 septembre 2018
Bill Cosby prisonnier politique? Un martyr de la cause des Noirs américains?
"To suggest that Cosby’s conviction and sentencing are invalid not because he didn’t commit a crime, but because other (white) rapists have gotten away with their crimes, is a peculiar logic. It reveals a disturbing impulse: the desire to weigh black men’s social standing against white men’s, even to the detriment of all women. If Cosby were to (further) evade punishment for his crimes, would that be a mark of racial progress? It’s an uncomfortable thought, a callous calculus that loses sight of the humanity at the heart of any pursuit of justice. Demanding accountability of black abusers is not an inherently anti-black proposition."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/bill-cosby-not-anti-racist-martyr/571348/
Donald Trump pense vaincre la Chine. Vraiment?
"What does such a test of wills sound like? It sounds like a senior Chinese official telling me at a seminar at Tsinghua University in April that it’s just “too late” for America to tell China what to do anymore on issues like trade, because China is now too big and powerful. And it sounds like President Trump, in effect, telling China: “Says who? Show me what you got, baby!” Or as Trump actually tweeted last week: “We are under no pressure to make a deal with China, they are under pressure to make a deal with us. … If we meet, we meet.”
I guess we should be grateful that this confrontation has been confined to trade, but, as I said, it was inevitable. Because, as one top tech executive pointed out to me: “China is not a ‘near peer’ anymore. It is a peer.”
As Mary Meeker’s latest internet trends study noted, five years ago China had only two of the world’s largest publicly traded tech companies, while the U.S. had nine. Today, China has nine of the top 20 — Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Financial, Baidu, Xiaomi, Didi, JD.com, Meituan and Toutiao — and the U.S. has 11. Twenty years ago, China had none."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/opinion/trump-china-trade-economy-tech.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Julie Swetnick: une troisième femme sort de l'ombre pour accuser Brett Kavanaugh
"A third woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying he was physically abusive toward girls in high school and present at a house party in 1982 where she says she was the victim of a “gang” rape."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-nomination-trump-calls-nominee-an-absolute-gem-as-tensions-swirl-over-planned-hearing/2018/09/26/df224aea-c190-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html?utm_term=.00651ea07996
mardi 25 septembre 2018
Le monde se moque de Donald Trump
"Dozens of times since 2011, Trump has tweeted the word laughing, and even though that’s a fairly common word, the vast majority of the uses involve foreign countries (or groups like isis) laughing at the United States.
More recently, however, Trump has argued that the snickering is over.
“The world respects our country now,” he told a reporter earlier this month, after former President Barack Obama criticized him in a speech. “They didn’t respect our country when he was running it. They were laughing at our country. We’re making great trade deals now and we’re making fair trade deals, but we’re making them good for us. And we didn’t have that.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/trump-unga-laughter/571267/
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