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by Michael Hudson
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May 10, 2012
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Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European “Socialists”, they manage crisis in the interests of finance
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May 6, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
Francois Hollande is the new president of France – yet he’s never really tasted power in a lifetime of Soclialist politics.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports from Tulle.
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
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Truthdig
April 23, 2012
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I went to Lille in northern France a few days before the first round of the French presidential election to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate François Holland. It was a depressing experience. Thunderous music pulsated through the ugly and poorly heated Zenith convention hall a few blocks from the city center. The rhetoric was as empty and cliché-driven as an American campaign event. Words like “destiny,” “progress” and “change” were thrown about by Holland, who looks like an accountant and made oratorical flourishes and frenetic arm gestures that seemed calculated to evoke the last socialist French president, François Mitterrand. There was the singing of “La Marseillaise” when it was over. Continue reading
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
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London, England
1 April 2012
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“ … she becomes the endless scream in the breaking news,
which was no longer breaking news, when the aircraft returned to bomb a house with two windows and a door.”
(The Girl/The Scream, Mahmoud Darwish, 1941-2008)
March was another month of tragic, needless lives lost, the searing grief of mother’s and father’s for lost son’s and daughters.
by William Bowles
Featured Writer
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williambowles.info
3 March 2012
I read a lot of news stories every day as I munch my way through the BBC News, VOR, RT, Dissident Voice, Strategic Culture Foundation, Global Research, countless RSS feeds, and so it goes… A lot of news sources and obviously I can’t read everything but what strikes me first, as it does I suspect everyone else, are the headlines, and it’s from these that we take our cues as to the importance of an event, especially to those who rule.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2012; added the movie
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A Tale of Two Cities – audiobook
Charles DICKENS (1812 – 1870)
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. – Summary by Brad Filippone
Genre(s): Historical Fiction
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
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East Africa
26 October 2011
Despite official denials peddled by the mainstream media, it is emerging that the US and France are engaged in a new war in the Horn of Africa.
Given that 11-12 million people are at risk of starvation in the famine-hit region, an escalation of conflict has huge humanitarian and legal implications. Yet the Western public is being given no oversight on the matter from what appears to be a veritable news blackout on the dire situation.
by Gaither Stewart
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at The Greanville Post
September 24, 2011
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ARCHIVES: In Remembrance of the Algerian Struggle for Independence
Editors Note: With the US and its NATO accomplices once again bent on “repackaging” the Arab Maghreb and the Gulf region via overt and covert bloody interventions in Iraq, Libya, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and other nations, apparently a new age of colonialism has arrived.
Of course, chiefly for the benefit of the perennially bamboozled American public, the pretense that we’re doing this to secure peace, freedom, and democracy in the region will likely continue indefinitely. Continue reading
by Franklin Lamb
Featured Writer
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Tripoli, Libya
July 12, 2011
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On Sunday July 10, France seemingly allied itself with Russia and China in calling on NATO to immediately stop its counterproductive and counterintuitive bombing, as more countries witness public demonstrations against NATO’s actions in Libya. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in Paris that military action in Libya must end and Colonel Gaddafi be welcomed around the negotiating table. Continue reading
by Stephanie Westbrook
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 10, 2011
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
By Roland Michel Tremblay
Featured Writer
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The Marginal
2 June, 2011
The 74 year old Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, a wealthy man and former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria, was arrested on May 31 under sexual assault charges involving a New York hotel maid. The charges and circumstances are practically identical to the 62 year old Dominique Strauss-Kahn alleged offences. DSK was arrested in New York on May 14 for sexually assaulting a New York Hotel maid, leading to his resignation from the head of the International Monetary Fund and ending his chances to become France’s president next year against Nicolas Sarkozy.
By John Pilger
Information Clearing House
www.johnpilger.com
May 26, 2011
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When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”.
By Roland Michel Tremblay
Featured Writer
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The Marginal
18 May, 2011
Le Monde confirmed in a poll conducted by CSA that for 57% of the French population, Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a plot. Reviewing the French Press reveals that most of the mass media in France published articles of main political figures, including political rivals, stating that they do not believe the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are genuine. In the meantime the career of the Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and potential future French President, who was favourable to the people instead of global corporations, is over. Unless somehow the belief of his innocence could be turned to his advantage, even if found guilty by forged evidence. A crucial mistake perhaps, the French simply don’t think like Americans, anything is possible. Here is a review of the most substantial articles in the French Press.
by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
March 25, 2011
A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of the EU’s 27 members and those of 17 non-EU Mediterranean countries to attend a conference in Paris to launch a Mediterranean Union.
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