Cultural Opinion

Forrest Gump et le rêve américain Cadre théorique et Introduction Le philosophe français Paul Ricoeur, dans son essai "Le Socius et le Prochain", indique au lecteur les deux attitudes possibles pour repenser une relation sociale différente et abandonner la structure artificielle de la société moderne. La première est une attitude anti-moderne, caractérisée par la vision d'un monde déshumanisé où il n'y a plus de place pour le prochain (la société ne valorise pas celui qui se lie aux autres sans rien attendre en retour). La seconde est la vision moderne qui considère le prochain comme dépassé. En conclusion de cet article, Ricoeur établit la fausseté de la dialectique prochain-socius. Ce monde moderne se comprend mieux si l'on se rappelle ce qu'Arendt expose dans "Condition de l'homme moderne" : la vie contemplative ou traditionnelle devient absurde pour les modernes. Cette aliénation du monde implique de le sacrifier et de perdre la liberté créat...

  I woke up today thinking about those who suffer, about the ones that cannot speak and the ones that we don't see. I'm not interested in naming them because I know that you already know of their existence and if you are reading this text I'm sure that you are not one of them. This group of disconnected people doesn't share anything but their lack of representation, they are the ones that history books do not concern about, the ones that have passed their whole life without voice and image, the ones who suffer and cannot complain.  You will never find between their lines a famous or powerful individual, power for them it isn't something real and reachable it's an old joke that they never laughed about. Be aware of pretending to know who i'm mentioning cause if you ask me to explain them i wouldn't be able to do it but nevertheless we all know of them. All the cities of the world are built by them and all the cities of the world reject them, the things yo...

Throughout history there have been lots of memorable units within world armies; these units not only distinguished themselves because of the quantity of deployments and wars fought under the same banner but also and mainly because of their courage, will and determination to defeat the enemy, establishing a high standard that follows them into eternity. We have to take into account that these are the exceptions in the battlefields throughout history because fear more often than we believe makes cowards of men and haunts them taking the soul of every fighter. One of the units that has proven to be exceptional in the battlefield and willing to face fear is the well known Foreign Legion.  It is easy to understand why this group of fighters is well known in the military world, the legion is commanded by french officials and ruled by the republic but it is composed by foreign members that take the chance to fight for another country and to die for causes that are not their own. We are no...

  The hell on earth in the XX Century The evolution of the Ethiopian state, one of the oldest in the world located in the Horn of Africa, was historically marked by the interplay of ethnic, regional and religious factors that sometimes acted in harmony and sometimes in conflict.  In the last century, neither Emperor Haile Selassie's "national integration policy" nor the Dergue military regime's "Ethiopia First" slogan, which hybridised Ethiopian nationalism with Marxism, helped stem the rising tide of ethno-nationalist rebellion.  The Emperor's regime faced ethno-national and regional armed movements in Tigray (1942-43), Bale (1963-68), Gojjam (1967) and Eritrea since the early 1960s. While it successfully suppressed the first three, the Eritrean movement was intractable, mainly due to external support that the others were unable to acquire.  The Dergue also had to contend with another wave of ethno-national movements, some of them "inherited" ...

  The state as an international player, characteristics and limitations. A subject of public international law is any entity capable of acquiring rights and contracting obligations within the international legal order. That is to say, they will be a centre of imputation of international norms, contracting obligations and rights within the legal system. It is legally asserted that the subject lies in the capacity of that entity to create, modify or extinguish legal relations. When they participate in the creation of norms, we can affirm their subjectivity.  We must be clear that international law is based on the recognition that it has multiple subjects. The original subjects are the states, on which the whole community agrees, and from them other international subjectivities are affirmed.  The multiplicity of subjects raises the question that the subjects of public international law are not necessarily all identical because states do have identity from the point of view o...

History of the financiation of the united nations  The United Nations (UN) is a complex organisation with several budgets funded in different ways. The UN Secretariat General manages a regular budget, another for peace missions, and a third for the UN tribunals: the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the International Residual Mechanism of the International Criminal Tribunals, the successor body to those two courts.  Within the UN there are specialised agencies such as the WHO, and funds and programmes, such as UNICEF, which have separate budgets. The UN's regular budget is funded by mandatory contributions and approved by the General Assembly. Until now it was for a two-year period, but since 2020 budgets have become annual. For 2020, the General Assembly approved a budget of more than USD 3 billion.  The Assembly's Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions is in charge of establishing every three years what percentage of...