Richard Ballerand

Opinion | Human Metapneumovirus Is Not the Next COVID medpagetoday.com/opinion/parasi…

Curiously calculated but telling ntl: cnn.com/2026/03/18/tra…

The hidden scandal of modern slavery in London standard.co.uk/news/london/mo…

Lest we forget

Alzheimer's 'Clock' Uses Blood Test to Forecast Symptom Onset medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzh…

Scrappy San Diego startup goes toe-to-toe with gene-sequencing giant Illumina sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/scr…

Ming Tang: NHSE is moving away from electronic patient records digitalhealth.net/2026/02/ming-t…

Radiologists rule cnn.com/2026/02/09/tec…

Patience et rusticité: l'entraînement "grand froid" des chasseurs alpins | TV5MONDE - Informations information.tv5monde.com/france/patienc…

Klepto capital: How London became a dirty money hub standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

Europe Needs Joint Financing and Procurement to Defend Itself rusi.org/explore-our-re…

«Donald Trump et l’élite qui l’entoure ne survivront pas à une alternance politique. S’ils perdent le pouvoir, ils finiront en prison voire pire. À défaut de pouvoir revenir en arrière, ils vont plus loin», analyse @GillesGressani, directeur de la revue du @Grand_Continent.

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works." It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books... "We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim." "This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works." "Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration." "But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination." Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit. "The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said. "And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself." Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that. The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet. "But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate." "Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure." There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel. Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is destroying America.

BREAKING: In a stunning report, CNN just analyzed all the ways Donald Trump and his family have profited from his Presidency. This is insane.

Genius

Leadership rather than sane-washing