Pierre Briançon

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

Another horror story
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Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent

Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence follows Beijing’s playbook on dissent
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Dude who advised resigns, and dude who decided stays on?
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

How Jeff Bezos (and Will Lewis) brought the Washington Post down
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Security "guarantees" for Ukraine (read in FT): If the Russians attack, let's give them a three-day headstart.

BlackRock’s Rick Rieder surges ahead in race to chair Federal Reserve Donald Trump has said he plans to name his nominee to run the US central bank ‘in the not too distant future’

Betting markets, what's not to love? ("leading contender...")
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It's tough to admit you've become a provincial market place
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The battle for Kupiansk: inside Ukraine’s victory against the odds
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The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose Looming US sanctions risk cutting fuel supplies to German capital, prompting government to review Rosneft expropriation

The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose
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Trump may have Alzheimer’s, says niece
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(He said brain-dead, actually, my bad...)

Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken? Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau des nouvelles générations.

«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes

Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’: A Schoolteacher’s Stand Against Russia’s Child Indoctrination - The Moscow Times Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working as a school event coordinator in Karabash, a copper-smelting hub in Russia’s Chelyabinsk regi...

Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working at a school in the Chelyabinsk region.

The footage he filmed became "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards last month.

NATO dude here painstakingly demonstrating how right Macron was when he talked about "brainless NATO."
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Britain wants to save its red squirrels, and The Economist is on it.

Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters

“I was a surgeon in Iran…”
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What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy Lenders in the war-torn country have shrunk their bad loans from 37% to 24% of their portfolios in the last two years. Other sectors are shaken by corruption scandals, but the financial industry remai...

What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-... @pierrebri.bsky.social

Breakingviews - What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy Lenders in the war-torn country have shrunk their bad loans from 37% to 24% of their portfolios in the last two years. Other sectors are shaken by corruption scandals, but the financial industry remai...

What Ukraine’s resilient banks could teach Zelenskiy
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The Board of Peace farce marks the day when the whole Davos edifice should collapse under a long-deserved tsunami of ridicule. (Don't worry, it won't.)

Read Steve Scherer on his journey "from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America":
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Why Was Macron Wearing Sunglasses at Davos?

Always trust irreplaceable NYTimes to dig deeper on the most important issues of the day
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

We live in the age of neo-royalist cliques - a Cambridge University paper
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Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.

This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual

Canadian military models response to hypothetical American invasion
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9 - So really, what's not to like?

8 - Meanwhile let’s not underestimate the big downside. These are all red states. But then divided Colorado, New Mexico and Minnesota (especially Minnesota) might wish to join in full?

7 - Hope for the euro as a currency overtime, so protection against the long-term decline of the $.

6 - Free abortion rights and the abolition of the death penalty from Montana to New Orleans would be among the first decisions taken by the French authorities.