Caricature viol-secours version républicaine

Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson, AZ

Caricature du téléphone intelligent

Caricature d'Osama Hajjaj, Jordan

Caricature Donald Trump trop optimiste sur le renouvellement de l'ALENA?

Donald Trump affirmait en fin de semaine avoir conclu le meilleur traité de l'histoire américaine. Même si nous sommes maintenant habitués aux exagérations du président américain, des analystes avancent plutôt que les retombées seraient minimes pour les Américains.

 “We see this rebranded NAFTA agreement as a marketing exercise,” Rupkey said. “The harsh war of words from Trump’s economics team terrified markets, consumers and businesses for a time, but what the U.S. actually got was much more modest than what the angry war of words seemingly demanded.”

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/analysts-say-trump-may-be-overly-optimistic-on-new-north-american-trade-deal/2018/10/01/cf6e734a-c58b-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.2ba35c668399

Caricature Brett Kavanaugh et l'enquête du FBI: un mandat limité

Caricature de RJ Matson, CQ Roll Call

Caricature Twitter chez le psy

Caricature de Jeff Koterba, Omaha World Herald, NE

Une majorité d'adolescents ont déjà été victimes de cyberintimidation

Des chiffres inquiétants et un phénomène contre lequel il faut réagir. 

"Name-calling and rumor-spreading have long been an unpleasant and challenging aspect of adolescent life. But the proliferation of smartphones and the rise of social media has transformed where, when and how bullying takes place. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 59% of U.S. teens have personally experienced at least one of six types of abusive online behaviors.

  The most common type of harassment youth encounter online is name-calling. Some 42% of teens say they have been called offensive names online or via their cellphone. Additionally, about a third (32%) of teens say someone has spread false rumors about them on the internet, while smaller shares have had someone other than a parent constantly ask where they are, who they’re with or what they’re doing (21%) or have been the target of physical threats online (16%)."

 http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/09/27/a-majority-of-teens-have-experienced-some-form-of-cyberbullying/

Charles Aznavour: l'audacieux auteur-compositeur-interprète meurt à 94 ans (Washington Post)

Un autre texte intéressant. On y souligne l'admiration de Bob Dylan et Frank Sinatra pour le chanteur français d'origine arménienne.

 "Diminutive and wiry, with mournful, beetle-browed eyes and a raspy tenor voice, Mr. Aznavour lacked the rakish sex appeal and ebullience of chanteurs such as Maurice Chevalier and Yves Montand. But he surged to fame in the 1960s, selling records on pace with Elvis Presley and the Beatles and drawing superlatives from critics for a charisma that was more implosive than explosive and for songs that illuminated the darker corners of the human heart.

Mr. Aznavour was one of the last surviving links to the mid-20th-century golden age of the “chanson française,” a song tradition blending street-wise, poetic lyrics and accessible melodies. Some of its most revered interpreters included Édith Piaf, a mentor to Mr. Aznavour, and Charles Trenet, who sang and composed songs that were reworked in English as the jazz and pop standards “Beyond the Sea” and “I Wish You Love.”

Mr. Aznavour helped push the chanson away from homages to pretty girls and whimsical odes to romance, although he put out his share. By incorporating jazz, bossa nova, tango and other languorous musical motifs, he gave the most doleful lyrical palette a sumptuous veneer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-aznavour-daring-and-adored-french-singer-and-composer-dies-at-94/2018/10/01/bf080f3e-c577-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.3c1db39ccc77

Mort de Charles Aznavour: "The Master of the Chanson" dans le New York Times

Je me demandais si la mort le décès de Charles Aznavour allait être soulignée au sud de la frontière. On retrouve un certain nombre d'articles reliés à la disparition de ce monument, dont ce ce bel hommage dans le New York Times. Aznavour a connu un certain succès aux États-Unis, jouant au Carnegie Hall et à Las Vegas.

 "His accomplishments were prodigious. He wrote, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 songs, for himself and for others, and sang them in French, Armenian, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish. By some estimates, he sold close to 200 million records. He appeared in more than 60 films, beginning with bit parts as a child. His best-known film role was probably as a pianist with a mysterious past in François Truffaut’s eccentric 1960 crime drama “Shoot the Piano Player” — a part that Truffaut said he had written specifically for Mr. Aznavour."

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/obituaries/charles-aznavour-dead.html

Audiences de Brett Kavanaugh: la caricature de Bruce MacKinnon devient virale

Caricature de Bruce MacKinnon, The Halifax Chronicle Herald

Le FBI peut livrer la marchandise dans le dossier de Brett Kavanaugh (James Comey, New York Times)

Les Démocrates et bien des observateurs ont déjà commencé à critiquer l'enquête demandée par Donald Trump dans le dossier de Brett Kavanaugh en invoquant la durée et l'étendue restreinte du mandat. L'ancien directeur du FBI James Comey affirme de son côté qu'il est possible de livrer la marchandise malgré le contexte bien particulier et le cadre restrictif.

 "Although the process is deeply flawed, and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process, the F.B.I. is up for this. It’s not as hard as Republicans hope it will be.

F.B.I. agents are experts at interviewing people and quickly dispatching leads to their colleagues around the world to follow with additional interviews. Unless limited in some way by the Trump administration, they can speak to scores of people in a few days, if necessary.

They will confront people with testimony and other accounts, testing them and pushing them in a professional way. Agents have much better nonsense detectors than partisans, because they aren’t starting with a conclusion."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/opinion/james-comey-fbi-kavanaugh-investigation.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

ALENA: Trump obtient ce qu'il veut (The Atlantic)

Comme bien d'autres publications américaines ce matin l"The Atlantic" présente le résultat des négociations de l'ALENA comme une victoire. Peut-on extrapoler et affirmer que le rapport de force des États-Unis face au Mexique et au Canada permet d'envisager d'autres gains américains en Europe ou en Asie? Bien sûr le marché américain demeure intéressant et il est difficile de l'ignorer, mais j'imagine mal la Chine céder autant. Donald Trump est cependant conséquent avec le message qu'il véhicule depuis son entrée en politique et le monde occidental peut s'attendre à d'autres secousses.

 "The new agreement shows not only how Trump is willing to risk alliances to get the kinds of agreements he believes benefits American workers, but also how, despite protests, U.S. partners have little choice but to go along with much of what the world’s largest economy wants. It also shows how, ultimately, Trump is starting to refashion the Western global order, which the U.S. constructed in the wake of World War II, to align with his own worldview: more transactional, more bilateral, and less reliant on permanent alliances."

  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/trump-nafta-canada/571795/