Gaza-bound ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists sets sail from Greece
By : Amira Hass - Monday July 18, 2011 SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN – On Saturday evening a Gaza-bound boat left Greek territorial waters. Its 10 participants regard themselves as representatives of the entire abortive flotilla to Gaza, and are determined to exhaust all possibilities in order to reach their destination, or at least carry out the symbolic act of protesting the blockade. They are well aware of the Lilliputian dimensions of their venture, compared with the massive impact organizers had initially (...)
read more, comments... STRAUSS-KAHN : French writer and human rights activist Claude Ribbe has created a Support Committee for Nafissatou Diallo
By : Claude Ribbe - Monday June 13, 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French ex-managing director of the International Monetary Fund, rich, powerful, famous, bloated with arrogance and vanity, is accused by a perfectly ordinary, hard-working African Muslim immigrant in New York of attempting to rape her and forcing her against her will to engage in sexual acts. Because the ambitious Dominique Strauss-Kahn – the self-proclaimed future president of the French republic – claims to be a leftist, because he was the (...)
read more, comments... A show on French Gypsies under the German Occupation censored by the European Commission Liaison Office (ECLO) in Kosovo
By : Le MRAP - Saturday May 28, 2011 A show on French Gypsies under the German Occupation censored by the European Commission Liaison Office (ECLO) in Kosovo. "Mérignac-Beaudésert, Tsiganes français sous l’Occupation" is an adaptation based on historical documentation dealing with the internment and deportation of French Gypsies during the Second World War. The text has been published by the French publisher l’Espace d’un instant, in partnership with the Voix des Rroms, the Nouvelles alternatives (...)
read more, comments... Head of IMF Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault
By : TAMER EL-GHOBASHY - Sunday May 15, 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, has been arrested on charges of attempted rape, criminal sexual act and unlawful imprisonment, New York City police said Sunday, the Associated Press reported. A law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn was taken into police custody Saturday after being removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport. The law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced a cleaning woman onto his bed and sexually assaulted (...)
read more, comments... French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November
By : Franco Bechis - Saturday March 26, 2011 Timeline of events October 6, 2011 Nouri Mesmari turned himself over to the French secret service and, according to the Italians, he masterminded the revolution against Gaddafi. The document was leaked to Italian newspaper Libero. In the documents, the French secret services refer to Mesmari as ‘The Libyan Wikileak’ because he gave them all the inside information about the regime as well as account of who’s who in Libya and who they should or should not contact. With (...)
read more, comments... THE MEANINGLESS CONCEPT OF ETHICAL WAR : THE CASE AGAINST INTERVENTION
By : JOHN CHUCKMAN - Friday March 25, 2011 By John Chuckman French air force planes struck the first blows: using “intelligent” munitions, the planes struck tanks and artillery which threatened the people of Benghazi. Now, who wouldn’t be heartened to learn that mechanized forces being used against civilians, civilians whose only demand was freedom from tyranny, were destroyed? One might easily regard intervention, limited strictly to such targets, as both ethical and desirable, but the truth is that (...)
read more, comments... Paris: Week of solidarity and struggles against repression (20-27 february 2011)
By : semainedesolidarite - Saturday February 19, 2011 To control population movements is one of the States priorities. It is, in particular, to select with care the labour force needed for the economy, and this in a general context of deterioration in the standard of living. This selection requires the reinforcement of imprisonment of people called “undesirable”, border controls and raids, dropping visas and an intensification of the struggle against the ones who in one way or another go against keeping under control population (...)
read more, comments... Book "Indignez-vous" a virus from France arouses Egypt-translation
By : Nilus Mative - Wednesday February 2, 2011 INDIGNEZ-VOUS! GET ANGRY! CRY OUT by Stéphane Hessel After 93 years, it is almost the final act. The end for me is not very far off any more. But it still leaves me a chance to be able to remind others of what acted as the basis of my political engagement. It was the years of resistance to the Nazi occupation — and the program of social rights worked out 66 years ago by the National Council of the Resistance! It is to Jean Moulin [murdered founder of the Council] that we owe, as (...)
read more, comments... "Indignez-vou" by 93-y.o. Incites Youths,600K sold,Translation
By : Clayton Hallmark - Wednesday January 12, 2011 INDIGNEZ-VOUS (Translation follows.) De Stéphane Hessel Booklet "Indignez-vou" by Man 93 Incites Young French-600,000 Sold Translated below, Stephane Hessel’s pamphlet, "Ignez-vou!" ("Get Angry" or "Cry Out"), has taken France by storm — a record 600,000 copies sold in 3 months. Hessel and his comrades fought in a situation reminiscent of the Tribulation as Nazi occupation made France a hell. This incendiary pamphlet is going viral at a time when Europe is "in the streets" (...)
read more, comments... The Faults in the French Educational System Aggravate Social Inequality
By : Isabelle Metral - Sunday December 19, 2010 by Isabelle Metral and reviewed by Bill Scoble Aziz Djellab, professor of sociology at the university of Lille-III, comments on the latest PISA report. Both the media and the French Ministry for National Education were impatiently waiting for its publication: the PISA report [1] has just delivered its verdict. And the verdict is that the French system is getting more and more inegalitarian, and that social class remains a determining factor in students’ achievements. This means (...)
read more, comments... France joins Ireland in ‘raiding national pension fund’
By : Max Julius - Tuesday November 30, 2010 France has reportedly passed a law to use the assets in its €36 billion national reserve pension fund to pay off welfare system debts, as Ireland tapped its own reserve pension fund to supplement an EU-IMF bailout. The assets of the French pension fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, have been moved into the agency in charge of refinancing the country’s social debt, Cades, Financial News reported. According to the newspaper, the fund will continue to control the (...)
read more, comments... Financial News: France Seizes EUR36 Billion Of Pension Assets
By : George Coats - Tuesday November 30, 2010 Asset managers will have the chance to get billions of euros in mandates in the next few months for the EUR36 billion Fonds de R??serve pour les Retraites (FRR), the French reserve pension fund, after the French parliament last week passed a law to use its assets to pay off the debts of France’s welfare system. The assets have been transferred into the state’s social debt sinking fund Cades. The FRR will continue to control the assets, but as a third-party manager on behalf of (...)
read more, comments... What was, What is, and What’s Coming Next
By : David Glenn Cox - Sunday November 28, 2010 By David Glenn Cox Hindsight is 20/20, you can look back throughout history and choose any three events and the future becomes explained. The American Revolution 1776, the French Revolution 1789, the terror 1793 – Napoleon 1799. The American Revolution financed in part by France, helped to deplete the French treasury in what Churchill called, “the first world war.” The depleted treasury exacerbated the domestic miseries of the French people, while the idea of (...)
read more, comments... Motion of support for the british students
By : Audrey - Thursday November 18, 2010 Motion carried by the general meeting of students of the University of Le Havre on the 15th of November, 2010. Dear comrades, We have learnt with enthusiasm, that on November the 10th of 2010, 50’000 students and academics marched in the streets of London against the rise of tuition fees and the spending cuts announced in British universities. We are particularly sensitive to these issues. Indeed, the law dealing with the liberties and responsibilities of the universities, which (...)
read more, comments... Sarkozy should retire, says France
By : Mark Weisbrot - Wednesday October 27, 2010 By taking to the streets to defend their pension rights from regressive cuts, the French are fighting for all our benefits The demonstrations that have rocked France this past week highlight some of its differences from the United States. The photo here, for example shows the difference between rioting in baseball-playing versus soccer-playing countries. In the US, we would pick up the tear gas canister and throw it, rather than kick it, back at the police. More importantly, the French (...)
read more, comments... Another Great Day for Democracy
By : David Glenn Cox - Friday October 22, 2010 By David Glenn Cox There is good journalism and then there is bad journalism and then there is reprehensible journalism. The reprehensible journalist is akin to the kid whose parents worked two jobs so he could attend the Julliard school of music. Only to graduate and take a job with Muszak rewriting Black Sabbath songs to be used as elevator music with a Paul Anka impersonator singing, “I am Iron Man.” It is reprehensible not just because it is bad, but because the (...)
read more, comments... Testicle Importation
By : David Glenn Cox - Wednesday October 20, 2010 By David Glenn Cox Those of you who know me well, know I’m a buy American first kind of guy. I don’t drive foreign cars or eat fancy foreign cheeses but you just can’t grow a good Brazil nut in Omaha. There are sometimes when importation is the only answer to a national shortage. Don’t ask me why, maybe its the fluoride in the water or all those atom bomb tests back in the 1950’s but this country is facing a serious testicle shortage. It would certainly seem (...)
read more, comments... sarkozy’s own pension scheme
By : judecannes - Tuesday October 19, 2010 Politis, a french news paper explain one reason mr Sarkozy could be interested in passing his reform. His brother, Mr guillame Sarkozy his at the head of a company created in 2008 that sell pension scheme. Politis says, banks and insurance companies are looking forward the application of the reform that pushes the retirement age from 60 to 62. Mr Sarkozy (guillaume) is looking for a benefit of 1.2 billion euro within a few years. His company, has already make plans toward it. All that (...)
read more, comments... Row brewing between Sarkozy and Merkel over Roma
By : Brussels - Friday September 17, 2010 French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Friday he had not been aware of a discussion in Brussels on the Roma issue between President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that has led to a bilateral row. “I did not witness (such a discussion), although I was present the entire time,” Mr. Kouchner told Europe 1 radio. “The president also did not tell me anything about it. I don’t know if it took place somewhere off on the side.” Mr. (...)
read more, comments... Nicolas Sarkozy evokes memories of Gestapo by rounding up Roma for expulsion
By : Charles Bremner - Thursday August 19, 2010 TWO boys stood in a gymnasium in an eastern Paris suburb yesterday and pondered their future. "I want to be a mechanic and a footballer," said Benjamin, 14. "First, I’d like to go to school," he added. His companion, who has also never been to school, wanted to be a journalist. The boys’ immediate future is fairly certain. The French police will pack them off to Eastern Europe, along with other foreign Roma whom President Sarkozy plans to expel in a clampdown on illegal (...)
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