The Weekly Forum - 14 May
19 mei 2025 | Forum for Democracy Intl
The Middle East is in flames once again, as we all know. The terrible war in Gaza has been raging for well over a year. Every week we see images of new horrors there. But this has been going on for a quarter of a century. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran and Yemen have all been attacked in one way or another by the United States, with catastrophic results. Thierry Baudet spoke passionately against this neo-conservative warmongering in the Dutch parliament this week – and when he started to speak about the sadism of the Israeli forces, he was cut short by the Chairman of the House.
Watch Thierry’s speech (translated by AI) here
Meanwhile everyone is trying to work out what Donald Trump will do next. Is he playing 4-D chess or is he nuts? The mainstream media is in no doubt about the answer to that question. Not only is he nuts, for them, but, worse, he is a man – a man who plays on his virility. The hatred of him is largely to be explained by this reverse sexism, argues Hans van de Breevaart of the Renaissance Institute, FVD’s think tank, and it comes from the hatred of masculinity taught by Theodor Adorno and his Frankfurt School. For that matter, the hatred of ‘real men’ probably also explains fashionable distaste for many other world leaders too.
Read Hans van de Breevaart’s article here
FVD’s friends Edouard Husson (Paris) and Ulrike Reisner (Vienna) have written a book, published in German, French and English, calling for Europe to be decolonised. They argue that East Germany was decolonised when the Soviets left in 1990 but West Germany was not. Not only did the US and other military bases remain but the country was opened up for ‘investment’ by big US corporations. This and other stupid decisions, caused by the strange obsession with ‘green’ policies, have caused a grave imbalance in Europe and the world.
Read the article by Edouard Husson and Ulrike Reisner here
Our guest on The Forum this week was Charles Malet of UK Column, discussing the astonishing moral and financial corruption in the Church of England.