Islam: milieux fréristes ou salafistes, visées par une mesure de gel de leurs avoirs
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Si le gel des avoirs de l’IESH, l’institut de formation à l’arabe et à la théologie musulmane situé à Saint-Léger-de-Fougeret, dans la Nièvre, a été très médiatisé à la mi-juin, l’organisme n’est pas le seul à être dans le viseur du ministère de l’Intérieur. Selon les informations de Libération, au moins une douzaine d’autres structures, notamment des maisons d’édition, ou personnalités sont également concernées par des mesures de gel des avoirs, publiées au Journal officiel, depuis début juin.
Si l’Institut européen des sciences humaines (IESH) a reçu dans la foulée la notification d’un projet de dissolution, il est, pour le moment, impossible de savoir si c’est le cas aussi des autres entités musulmanes dans le collimateur des autorités. «S’agissant de procédures encore en cours, nous ne souhaitons pas communiquer à ce stade», a très sobrement répondu le ministère de l’Intérieur, après plusieurs sollicitations.
The Ukraine Revovery Conference -- URC2025 -- is taking place in Rome. The U.S. will take part in a Ukraine coalition of the willing meeting for the first time in Rome.
The so-called 'coalition of the willing' is a group of countries that plan to support Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. It was established earlier this year and is led by France and Britain. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed the launch of a European fund aimed at mobilising private investment for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
The EU today announced a new €2.3 billion package of agreements signed with international and bilateral public financial institutions under the Ukraine Investment Framework.
Creating a Ukraine Economic Recovery Executive may sound like a mundane and bureaucratic exercise. But in reality, it is all about leadership. For over three years, no one has taken charge of supporting Ukraine’s economic recovery. Meloni can finally change that.
In addition to chairing the URC, Prime Minister Meloni has the relationships necessary to pull this together. She has a warm relationship with US President Trump. Her April visit to Kyiv, followed by her engagement with President Zelenskyy and renewed support for a Vatican-hosted peace process, signals her commitment to both diplomacy and reconstruction. (Kurt Volker)
Never, at least in this century, have leaders of important countries jointly engaged in such an exercise of supreme absurdity: URC2025. To be sure: they are all adults, elected leaders of their countries and institutions, braving Rome's sweltering summer heat, to achieve what?
A grandiose plan for rebuilding a country about to be destroyed and swallowed by a powerful neighbor. As Kiev is burning under a hail of Russian drones and missiles, with desperate and exhausted people hiding underground, the circus in Rome is celebrating billions of Euros promised to rebuild what? A country led waste by Russian artillery and bombs, with a population about to be annihilated by a vengeful and cruel enemy. and possibly to be replaced by immigrants from the Russian Far East and South (Buryats, Yakuts, Tuvans)?
The Rome circus is sure to amuse Moscow and spur ideas on how to harness European billions to the reconstruction of Novorossiya, the sequel to the former Ukraine.
What is supposed to happen to the Ukrainians? Perhaps this:
-- one third dead;
-- one third fled to Central and Western Europe;
-- one third remaining to be thoroughly russified and mixed with the newcomers.
Heinrich von Loesch
How Trump is torpedoing Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts
The US president’s flip-flopping is hampering Kyiv’s ability to plan for life beyond war
Trump’s flip-flopping conceals a deeper truth, and it’s not good news for Ukraine
The direction of Washington’s policy remains focused on managing Kyiv’s effective surrender, not on crushing Putin’s war machine
The Russian leader is convinced that Moscow’s battlefield superiority is growing, and that Ukraine’s defenses may collapse in the coming months, according to people close to the Kremlin.
Putin is continuing his offensive in Ukraine with great determination and brutality, despite the recent annoyance of US President Donald Trump. The New York Times claims to have learned that the Kremlin leader assumes that the military situation will develop in his favor in the coming days and weeks. What's more, Putin apparently assumes that the Ukrainian lines of defense could collapse in the coming months.
Russia will be able to routinely launch over 1,000 drones per strike package by Fall 2025, echoing a recent warning from Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces Commander Major Robert Brovdi that Russia could escalate its strike packages to include over 1,000 Shahed-type drones per day.[7] Ukrainian electronic and radio warfare expert Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov estimated on June 20 that Russia has increased Shahed production sevenfold and forecasted that Russian strike packages may soon incorporate up to 800 Shaheds — a forecast that is in line with the July 8 to 9 Russian strike package.[8] ISW previously reported that Russia is significantly expanding its long-range drone production capabilities for modified Geran-2 drones (the Russian-made analogue of the Iranian-origin Shahed-136 drones), including by opening production lines with companies in the People's Republic of China (PRC).[9]
The continued increase in the size of strike packages is likely intended to support Russian efforts to degrade Ukrainian morale in the face of constant Russian aggression.
Hubris In The Kremlin: Vladimir Putin Is Underestimating The West Again
Vladimir Putin is convinced his country is strong enough to secure total victory in Ukraine. But the Russian leader is forgetting two crucial things about the current geographic dynamic.
TURIN — Is he about to make the same mistake he made three years ago? In February 2022, Vladimir Putin ultimately decided to invade Ukraine only after convincing himself that neither the United States nor the European Union would do anything to thwart his plans.
There was every reason for him to believe so: the Americans didn’t show him the slightest sign that they would react, and the Europeans — in any case duly informed by Washington of the significant mass of Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine — did not want to be convinced of the reality of the danger.
“They won’t do anything, I can go,” the Russian president appeared to tell himself. He was of course completely mistaken about the strength and speed with which the West would rush to Kyiv’s defense.
That blindness has cost him and Russia dearly. The United States immediately delivered weapons to Ukraine. The Europeans were even more reactive, and quickly began to equip themselves with a common defense system.
On the ground, the only real change Putin managed to impose was the formal annexation of territories formerly controlled by pro-Russian secessionist movements. His navy has been decimated in the Black Sea, and after the strong stimulus of increased military spending, his economy is now showing serious signs of difficulty.
Toll of aggression
For Putin, the toll of this aggression has ultimately been catastrophic. And yet he has now refused the hand Donald Trump extended to him. The American president was willing to recognize the annexation of Crimea, to admit the fait accompli of the integration of Donbas into the Russian Federation, to cut off all aid to Ukraine, and to close the doors of the Atlantic Alliance to Kyiv.
Trump aimed unusually sharp criticism at Vladimir Putin, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader: “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
On Thursday, Russian launched another 400 drones and 18 missiles on Ukraine in an “an obvious build-up of terror,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Moscow’s sustained assault is now injecting new urgency into questions surrounding Washington’s commitment to defending Kyiv. Just when he was losing ground, Washington offered Putin the chance to save face… And what did he do? He refused. His demands remain maximalist. He wants the demilitarization of Ukraine and the replacement of Volodymyr Zelensky with one of his own men. He wants to secure an indisputable victory that will allow him to establish a protectorate over what was once the empire of the tsars, and by doing so, he wants to intimidate the whole of Europe.
BERLIN, July 11 (Reuters) - NATO will need more long-range missiles in its arsenal to deter Russia from attacking Europe because Moscow is expected to increase production of long-range weapons, a U.S. Army general told Reuters.
Russia's effective use of long-range missiles in its war in Ukraine has convinced Western military officials of their importance for destroying command posts, transportation hubs and missile launchers far behind enemy lines.
"The Russian army is bigger today than it was when they started the war in Ukraine," Major General John Rafferty said in an interview at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, Germany.
"And we know that they're going to continue to invest in long-range rockets and missiles and sophisticated air defences. So more alliance capability is really, really important."
The war in Ukraine has underscored Europe's heavy dependence on the United States to provide long-range missiles, with Kyiv seeking to strengthen its air defences.
Der Generalsekretär der macronistischen Partei Renaissance, Gabriel Attal, verteidigte am Montag auf einem Parteitag der Führungskräfte der Partei eine „starke republikanische Antwort“ auf das, was er als „Strategie der islamistischen Abschottung“ bezeichnete, und folgte damit dem Bericht, der der Regierung in den letzten Tagen über einen angeblichen Einfluss der Muslimbruderschaft in Frankreich vorgelegt worden war. Zu den markantesten Ankündigungen gehörte das Verbot des Tragens von Kopftüchern im öffentlichen Raum für minderjährige Mädchen unter 15 Jahren. Gabriel Attal sagte: „Junge Mädchen zu schützen bedeutet, abzulehnen, dass man sie in einer rigorosen Lesart der Religion einsperrt“, und rief dazu auf, „nicht die Augen zu senken“ angesichts dessen, was er als Angriff auf die Würde der Kinder ansieht. Zu diesem Zweck schlägt er die Schaffung eines Straftatbestands der Nötigung zum Tragen des Schleiers vor, der sich gegen Eltern oder Mitglieder des familiären Umfelds richtet, die minderjährigen Mädchen dieses religiöse Zeichen aufzwingen, indem sie daraus einen Straftatbestand machen, der mit strafrechtlichen Sanktionen verbunden ist. Schließlich forderte der ehemalige Premierminister von Emmanuel Macron die Ausarbeitung eines neuen Gesetzes gegen Separatismus, das sich diesmal auf die Bekämpfung von „gemeinschaftlicher Abschottung“ konzentrieren soll.
Trump Fired Them. Now They’re Plotting to Stop Him
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Former USAID and State Department officials worried about the future of democracy in America say they’re actively organizing to resist Trump, inside and outside of government.
Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.
For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation.
The community is composed of diplomats and human rights activists who were once on the U.S. government payroll encouraging Latin American dissidents to fight dictators and supporting African independence movements. They were involved to varying degrees with an ultimately successful uprising in the Middle East.
Some have found post-government work in academia and nonprofits. Others are still looking for jobs. Several have begun moonlighting as strategic advisers to American activists, protest organizers and federal employees willing to engage in civil disobedience.
DemocracyAID is the brainchild of Danielle Reiff, another former USAID diplomat who retired from government work in late 2024. As Trump targeted her former agency this year, she started a group chat on the encrypted app Signal to “keep the community together.”
“We started to have really robust, good conversations, and we realized this was not going to be a quick incident. We really needed to start organizing for the longer haul,” she told NOTUS.
The focus quickly shifted from salvaging the foreign assistance infrastructure to redeploying inside the United States. Reiff and Tucci joined forces, held dozens of meetings, sketched out a general structure and split it up into working groups that concentrate on separate missions like communications and training. They now have 200 volunteers and an Instagram account, @friendsofUSAID, with over 88,000 followers. A recent post shared “5 ways to keep up the momentum” of last month’s “No Kings” protests.
Reiff said that some of the training sessions are “just letter writing: how to write op-eds to a local newspaper for a local story.”
“We’re democracy officers at the end of the day. We’re still in a strategic planning process. We’ve got a lot of different irons in the fire,” she told NOTUS.
Deputy White House press secretary Anna Kelly attacked the effort in a statement to NOTUS. “It is inherently undemocratic for unelected bureaucrats to undermine the duly elected President of the United States and the agenda he was given a mandate to implement,” she said.
“For all of us who are conflict experts, everything is blinking bright red. We’re well beyond early-warning signs here in the U.S.,” said one person who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity.
This government, even if it weren’t populated by the biggest morons on Earth, cannot do what it is threatening to do,” they said.
Five prominent tribal leaders from the West Bank city of Hebron have submitted a letter to Israeli officials offering full recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and proposing a peaceful breakaway from the Palestinian Authority to form an autonomous “Emirate of Hebron.”
The initiative, led by Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari—head of Hebron’s most influential clan—outlines a plan for cooperation with Israel, economic development, and eventual integration into the Abraham Accords framework.The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the letter, which was addressed to Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat and is intended for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We want coexistence,” said Sheikh Jaabari, speaking from his family’s ceremonial tent in Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank. “We want cooperation with Israel.”
The sheikhs’ letter calls for mutual recognition between Israel and the proposed Hebron Emirate. They commit to “zero tolerance” for terrorism, and reject the policies of the Palestinian Authority, accusing it of corruption and incentivizing violence through payments to convicted attackers
