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Andrea Capussela

@andreacapussela.bsky.social
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📖 The Republic of Innovation (Polity), The Political Economy of Italy's Decline (Oxford), Declino Italia (Einaudi), State-Building in Kosovo (Bloomsbury) ✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Times

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andy Burnham's aim to 'end forty years of neoliberalism' is the right one - so how can it be achieved? LSE's @andreacapussela.bsky.social thinks that Schumpeterian theory might help us find out. www.compassonline.org.uk/a-suggestion...
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A Suggestion for the New PM: The Political Economy of Egalitarian Liberty - Compass
What can we learn from Schumpeter?
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
presentation of my book, LSE 15 October, tickets available here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/polit...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
presentation of my book, LSE 15 October, tickets available here:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/political-economy
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gaza: what 'double tap' strike means: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Run! Get away!’: witnesses recount Israeli ‘double tap’ strike that killed child and medic in Gaza
When Mohammad Abdul Zinati, 15, rushed to help a man wounded in a bomb attack, he had no time to react before he too was hit
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is all that matters: 'Europeans overwhelmingly want a strong, united and independent Europe' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Europeans want a united Europe but question whether it can get there, study finds
A continent-wide crisis of confidence is creating fertile ground for far-right narratives of decline, report suggests
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent piece by @casmudde.bsky.social : 'Time is running out to stop the far right.' A possible response in my piece here: www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berli...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Negative Liberty Now Fetters Progressive Politics
Two decades of bold reform followed the 1970s crisis; since 2008, next to none. Blame an idea.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
With some delay, my op-Ed on the dramatic Saxony-Anhalt election. It is high time we focus our political struggle on strengthening democracy, rather than merely weakening the far right. To do this, we must show realism, resilience and restraint.
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The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right | Cas Mudde
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent piece: 'Time is running out to stop the far right' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A possible response in my piece here: www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berli...
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The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right | Cas Mudde
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
L'Opinion sur quatre ans de Meloni au pouvoir, avec mes commentaires : share.google/bz5Do6BoYGPA...
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Giorgia Meloni : les dessous d'une stabilité record
Depuis 1 413 jours au pouvoir, la présidente du Conseil italien a dépassé le record de Silvio Berlusconi. Mais pour quel résultat ? Premier bilan d'un populisme scruté en Europe
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The liberal view of freedom – non-interference – is hegemonic, and sounds obvious. I think 'its implications raise tall normative and rhetorical obstacles to progressive reform — and entail that liberal socialism, taken literally, is a contradiction in terms.' www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berli...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Negative Liberty Now Fetters Progressive Politics
Two decades of bold reform followed the 1970s crisis; since 2008, next to none. Blame an idea.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I conclude thus: 'the republican-Schumpeterian synthesis offers progressives a coherent basis on which to build attractive and realistic programmes of reform, which could defeat both the demagogic right and neoliberal conservatives.' www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berli...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Negative Liberty Now Fetters Progressive Politics
Two decades of bold reform followed the 1970s crisis; since 2008, next to none. Blame an idea.
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Lucathequietone @lucathequietone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Da leggere. Non solo le sempre interessanti considerazioni di @interazioni.blog, ma soprattutto il post di @andreacapussela.bsky.social le cui riflessioni sul concetto di libertà dovrebbero essere insegnate a scuola.. ..ehi, adesso che ci penso...
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Cesare @interazioni.blog · 01/09/2026
Vorrei segnalare questo contributo di @andreacapussela.bsky.social (con un traduttore lo si può leggere in italiano), che trovo simile al mio approccio all'economia politica. Dato che uso questo mezzo anche per interagire con autori di post fonte di ispirazione...⬇️ substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Europe’s autonomy and republican freedom
The domestic basis of Europe’s external autonomy
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As I published this, Social Europe – @henningmeyer.eurosky.social – published this excellent piece by Andrew Watt, on the opportunity for establishing an EU safe asset: the convergence is obvious, as a safe asset is critical for autonomy www.socialeurope.eu/americas-fis...
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America’s Fiscal Crisis Is Europe’s Chance to Build a Treasury Market of Its Own
The EU should seize the moment to gain strategic autonomy by creating its own safe asset.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘After the summer of humiliation of 2025, and a winter marked by [US] geopolitical adventurism, Europeans seem to have realised that the cost of lacking autonomy from Washington is unsustainable.‘ Here I discuss the republican basis for Europe’s autonomy andreacapussela.substack.com/p/europes-au...
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Europe’s autonomy and republican freedom
The domestic basis of Europe’s external autonomy
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This piece argues that working class support for the far right is 'a case of suicide out of fear of death'. Yes. But the reason may be that what progressives offer is neoliberalism lite. Were they to offer republican freedom instead, things would change www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My home state is set to hand a breakthrough to the German far right. It’s a disaster decades in the making | Marcus Böick
A sense of abandonment could make Saxony-Anhalt the first state government to be solely led by the AfD. But the party’s hollow promises will only make a dire situation worse, says historian Marcus Böi...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent, by @brankomilan.bsky.social, on warmongering by smaller powers: ought to disturb our consciences and alert our intelligence: branko2f7.substack.com/p/on-europea...
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On European hypocrisy and warmongering
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the world reactions were predictable.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Online lunch talk on my book, 6th October at noon: gdi.ch/en/events/co...
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Online Lunchtalk: Rethinking Freedom
in English
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dagospia offre un'interpretazione originale della similitudine nel mio articolo: www.ft.com/content/dcf2...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This electoral reform, I argue in this piece, will 'add to the ruin of Italy's institutions'
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Delighted that FT chose this sentence of my piece as the caption for the (well-chosen) picture: 'Like a fishmonger after days of rough seas, Meloni has scant goods to sell.'
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/08/2026
Opinion: The Italian prime minister's electoral reform could shore up the governing coalition despite its poor record in power. ft.trib.al/GZoJiDt
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: DSA policies like universal healthcare would help millions of Americans.

FACT: Israel has the right to defend itself.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Indeed, Italian renaissance princes are thought to have believed that art and beauty would protect them: successive invasions proved them wrong, and Machiavelli right
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Non è mai possibile dimenticare ... che gli israeliani combattono non solo per difendere il loro territorio, ma sempre per la loro stessa esistenza, la loro sopravvivenza.' Curioso che G Pasquino scriva questo, di uno stato con 300 testate nucleari www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
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Starà agli elettori israeliani dare un’occasione alla pace
Netanyahu, sotto processo per corruzione e sotto accusa dalla Corte penale internazionale, per crimini di guerra e contro l’umanità, vuole dagli elettori non solo un mandato a rimanere in carica, ma u...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A generous Polish review of my book says that it 'makes an exceptionally bold claim', 'proposes a comprehensive reconstruction of Western capitalism', and 'is written almost like fiction': www.obserwatorfinansowy.pl/tematyka/mak...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Qui Orazio, Machiavelli, Leopardi, Manzoni: su leggi, norme sociali, ordine sociale, e credibilità delle regole
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nel 1991–94, c’era una vera aspirazione al «civismo»? C’era, io credo. È invece mancata la prospettiva credibile della transizione a un ordine sociale migliore. Temo che quella prospettiva manchi tuttora. Il principale vantaggio delle destre è questo. www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
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Un ordine sociale iniquo. Il problema delle regole in Italia è tutto politico
Le regole sono troppo poco credibili in Italia, perché poco rispettate. Le radici del problema sono nell’ordine sociale, che tollera la diffusa violazione delle regole. Per cambiarlo occorre offrire a...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
After the Financial Times, also Handelsblatt names my book among the best ones in economics this year: www.handelsblatt.com/arts_und_sty...
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This could be crucial for Europe's autonomy, but would ideally be a European project: 'Être capable en 2029 d’entraîner des modèles à la frontière. Nous montrons que cet objectif est atteignable.' Thanks @grandcontinent.bsky.social for signalling it legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/07/0...
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Opération Prométhée : la France peut gagner la course à l'IA. Quel en serait le prix?
Une pièce de doctrine à l'attention du prochain président de la République et de ses électeurs.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
For my British friends: ' a massacre made in Whitehall, at the behest of Trump’s White House, in order to buff up shareholder returns.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Outlandish now
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Delighted to present my book tomorrow at Regensburg university
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Splendid news: archives might give Quixote a good film version www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project
Team hope 30 of hours of footage held by three countries will be enough to bring to life film-maker’s vision
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Former Republican congressman turned Democrat: “Every time I bring up my support of Israel, Democrats just jump down my throat. It is one of the most powerful animating issues in the party right now.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Will the Mamdani effect make 2028 the year of the leftwing president?
The mayor hopes to ‘write a new chapter in the party’s history’ – and recent democratic socialist wins prove he might be able to do it
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer: 'I accept...with good grace.' Yet grace, like beauty, is in the eye of the observer. Reminds one of another PM of this kingdom, who said that if you have to tell people that you are a lady, you aren't www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer to step down as prime minister two years after historic election victory
Labour leader bows to mounting pressure after Andy Burnham’s success against Reform UK in Makerfield
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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026
There is sadly nothing mythical about the fact that the US threatened to seize Greenland. Or about the ambush of Zelenskyy in the White House. Or US support for far right extremists in Europe, or its anti-EU National Security Strategy. Sometimes there are not two sides to an issue.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@financialtimes.com suggests my book!
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 20/06/2026
Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent
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Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent
<div><img width="600" height="360" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/06/54474357527_10848ca2dc_o-2-600x360.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/06/54474357527_10848ca2dc_o-2-600x360.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2026/06/54474357527_10848ca2dc_o-2-1200x720.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, according to an EUobserver investigation compiling data from the EU institutions, third-party aid organisations and on the ground in Israel/Palestine - and despite a wall of silence from Brussels itself.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On the Financial Times, @martinwolfhh.bsky.social lists my book as one of the 'best summer economics books': 'original and provocative work on how to combine freedom with prosperity. ... The ideal is radical. It might not be workable. But it is definitely attractive.' www.ft.com/content/96e2...
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Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Today @martinwolfhh.bsky.social on @financialtimes.com lists my book among the best ones this year: 'original and provocative work on how to combine freedom with prosperity...radical...might not be workable. But it is definitely attractive'
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On the Financial Times, @martinwolfhh.bsky.social lists my book as one of the 'best summer economics books': 'original and provocative work on how to combine freedom with prosperity. ... The ideal is radical. It might not be workable. But it is definitely attractive.' www.ft.com/content/96e2...
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Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Interesting critique of EU digital rules: 'Brussels fails to recognise that digital sovereignty isn’t just about who owns or controls your technology. It’s also about having an independent vision for how that technology is designed, developed and deployed.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun
The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision, says Max von Thun of the Open Markets Institute Europe
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 10/06/2026
Reprendre le feu de la liberté républicaine
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Reprendre le feu de la liberté républicaine | Le Grand Continent
Trump a radicalisé l’Europe, et c’est dans les racines d’une vieille idée de liberté qu’on trouve ce qu’il faut pour articuler une nouvelle histoire du futur.
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Olivier @oleboto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/06/1... Pour une Europe Démocratique autonome, contre le National Market Liberalism à la Trump : Liberté Républicaine et Innovation.
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Reprendre le feu de la liberté républicaine | Le Grand Continent
Trump a radicalisé l’Europe, et c’est dans les racines d’une vieille idée de liberté qu’on trouve ce qu’il faut pour articuler une nouvelle histoire du futur.
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Juan Agullo 🦉 @juan-agullo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#Trump 🇺🇸 a radicalisé l’ #Europe 🇪🇺, et c’est dans les racines d’une vieille idée de liberté qu’on trouve ce qu’il faut pour articuler une nouvelle histoire du futur. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/06/1...
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Reprendre le feu de la liberté républicaine | Le Grand Continent
Trump a radicalisé l’Europe, et c’est dans les racines d’une vieille idée de liberté qu’on trouve ce qu’il faut pour articuler une nouvelle histoire du futur.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Video evidence of the killing of this child in the West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Video shows family’s car slowing before Israeli troops shot dead Palestinian baby
Footage appears to contradict Israeli military’s account of killing of seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal in West Bank
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Grand Continent @grandcontinent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Avant les frappes de cette nuit, Trump avait annoncé à 38 reprises un accord avec l’Iran depuis le début de la guerre
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Trump a annoncé à 38 reprises un accord avec l’Iran depuis mars
Au cours des 11 dernières semaines, le président américain a déclaré environ une fois tous les deux jours qu’un accord avec Téhéran était imminent.
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Machiavel reconnaît aux dominés la connaissance de leur propre domination. Montrer [aux Européens] la perspective crédible d’une plus grande liberté [peut] vaincre les démagogues nationaux [et] donner des bases internes solides à l’objectif de l’autonomie extérieure [de l'Europe]".
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