Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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Matthieu Buge

12 ARTICLES
Matthieu Buge worked on Russia for the magazine l’Histoire, the Russian film magazine Séance, and as a columnist for Le Courrier de Russie. He is the author of the book Le Cauchemar russe ('The Russian Nightmare').




France is building an Orwellian state in plain sight

Europe’s got talent, a very specific one – a politico-administrative dystopia. And France is once again leading the way. First, a bit of recent history....

Macron’s final gift: A law for death

As the French parliament votes in favour of the legalisation of euthanasia, the president’s decade in power solidifies its gloomy symbolism. After France became, in...

The Iran war is a political project from the Torah

Many aspects of the US-Israeli aggression look like attempts to fulfil biblical prophecies. The current conflict between Iran and Israel isn’t a classic war driven...

Abortion anarchy: What the new UK law will really achieve

With massive immigration and free rein on self-terminating pregnancies, one can’t help but think if the ‘conspiracy theories’ are true. In March 2026, the BBC...

Internet (un)chained: Why cyber-censorship is here to stay

As the world gets deeper in dramatic structural changes, the one universal tool – the internet – has become a new kind of trench...

Looking for the meaning of life? These old sci-fi movies are a good place to start

In a world that looks more and more like a dystopia, two unique masterpieces may help us find some purpose to our existence. Cinema has...

Will the French regime go Soviet?

Facing the political impasse of the entire system, some MPs have a dystopian idea: ban and punish all criticism of the “Republic”. This may seem...

Macron leads the way to Western civilization’s suicide

France has just made abortion, already legal, a constitutional right – a sign of the country’s morbid drive to self-destruction. The Olympics will not be...

Does Macron want to become Emmanuel I?

French media outlets are making light of a supposed ‘quip’ by the president that could lead to the abolition of the two-term limit. A (not...

France’s denial day

Everyone understands why the country was engulfed in protests, but the authorities hush up the problem. After days of extremely violent riots, France enjoyed a...

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