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Samir Saul - Michel Seymour

Samir Saul holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris and is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal. His latest book is L'Impérialisme, passé et présent. Un essai (2023). He is also the author of Intérêts économiques français et décolonisation de l'Afrique du Nord (1945-1962) (2016), and La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914. Intérêts économiques et implications politiques (1997). He is also co-editor of Méditerranée, Moyen-Orient : deux siècles de relations internationales (2003). Email : samir.saul@umontreal.ca _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Michel Seymour is a retired professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, where he taught from 1990 to 2019. He is the author of a dozen monographs, including A Liberal Theory of Collective Rights, 2017; La nation pluraliste, co-authored with Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp, for which the authors won the Canadian Philosophical Association Prize; De la tolérance à la reconnaissance, 2008, for which he won the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He also won the Richard Arès prize from Action nationale magazine for Le pari de la démesure, published in 2001. Email : seymour@videotron.ca web site: michelseymour.org

Two years of war in the Middle East: an assessment and what comes next

The series of events triggered by the operation of October 7, 2023, revealed pre-existing realities that had remained hidden until then. Before October 7, the Middle East was evolving in a way that sidelined the Palestinians and disregarded their rights…

Trampling on rights and freedoms to stifle support for Palestinians

The aid provided by Western governments to Israel and its genocidal policies is a fact that is out in the open. Some are ashamed, others openly display their association and complicity. Geopolitical calculations (for the domination of the Near East),…

Humanitarianism is important, but not sufficient

To understand the nature of a war and be able to make an informed decision, it is not enough to rely on what is happening internally within societies engaged in armed conflict. A state may be considered democratic in its…

Trump’s Foreign Policy: A Sham?

Some believe that Donald Trump actually wants to end the war in Ukraine. Others believe he’s as belligerent as his predecessors. Who’s right? Perhaps a bit of both. He may have wanted to end American involvement in the war in…

State assassinations: a way to conceal political and military failure

The recent spate of assassinations committed by Israel and the United States has drawn attention to what appears to be a growing trend: “decapitation.” War increasingly resembles ordinary criminality punishable under the law, specifically homicide or first-degree murder. The list…

US imperialism is hitting a BRICS wall!

Neoliberal globalized capitalism spread across the globe at the turn of the 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Warsaw Pact, and the dissolution of the USSR. For the West, and especially for the Anglosphere,…

The 12-Day War and the World Conflict

The war against Iran, which Israel has been seeking for over 20 years and which it launched with a blatant aggression on June 13, ended on June 24. A surprise attack ended with a surprise ceasefire. It is only a…

Why Israel attacked Iran

As if the genocide in Palestine were not enough, Israel simultaneously unleashed a war through a blatant and large-scale aggression. Does not Israel best fit the description of a “rogue state,” a term that the United States indiscriminately hurled at…

Neoliberal Gospel, Hollow Progressivism, Right-Wing Populism: the Misery of our Times

Can a portrait of the Western ideological landscape be painted? The uproar surrounding certain “cultural” or “civilizational” wars, the dire warnings against underhanded and harmful intrigues hatched by real or imaginary enemies, the anguished calls to defend one’s sacrosanct “values,”…

Will we finally open our eyes to international realities?

In North America, citizens are so free that they can, if they wish, completely ignore geopolitical reality. Among the freedoms they are offered is the freedom to ignore the importance of these issues, a freedom that the authorities willingly maintain,…

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