Marie-George Buffet Blows the Whistle
By : Hervé Fuyet - Monday February 5, 2007 By Pierre-Henri Lab, Special correspondent, Besançon (Doubs) ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE : M.-G. Buffet tire le signal d’alarme Marie-George Buffet, now officially candidate in the French presidential election only two months away, appeals urgently for unity of the political Left against the political Right. During her electoral meeting in the province of Franche-Comté in south-eastern France, Marie-George Buffet called on the political Left to “act responsibly, since the victory (...)
read more, comments... France : Sex and lies on the cyberspace hustings
By : Charles Bremner - Saturday February 3, 2007 If you want gossip on the love life of Ségolène Royal or a compromising video of Nicolas Sarkozy do not bother looking at the French newspapers or television, just switch on the computer. Tales of the supposed dalliances and skulduggery of the presidential candidates are flooding the internet as the parties, supporters, bloggers, trouble-makers and comedians pile in before the April presidential election. Distrust of France’s compliant media and a love affair with weblogs and video (...)
read more, comments... Chirac Slams Iraq War as Boost to Terrorism
By : Emmy - Saturday January 6, 2007 Published on Friday, January 5, 2007 by the Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/headlin... NO AFP on BELLACIAO PLZ !
read more, comments... Reuters Pictures of the Year 2006 - Political World
By : zed - Friday December 15, 2006 PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A student is detained by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2006. In the largest student movement in the past 30 years in Chile, hundreds of thousands of students from around the country are pressuring the government to cede to their list of demands whose main points are free passes to public transportation, free college entrance exams, more teachers and improved secondary school buildings. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A (...)
read more, comments... Letter open of the Collective Dom to Mr. Jacques Chirac, president of the Republic
By : basta - Saturday December 9, 2006 le 8 décembre 2006 With Mr Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, Large Master of the national Order of the Legion of Honor Mr. President of the Republic, France, definitely, seems to have lost some reference marks and there would be, in our opinion, urgency which you recall to our compatriots fundamental principles of the Republic. An organizer of television, Mr. Pascal Sevran, being believed obviously above our laws, has just affirmed publicly and cynically not only its racism, (...)
read more, comments... France - Banlieues: inquiry on the dead of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Bucket
By : syd - Saturday December 9, 2006 Banlieues The “lightness” of the flics a.m.m. “The Igs, the “police of the police”, accusation the policemen of Clichy-sous-Bois to have had a behavior “of a lightness and 27 an amazing distraction” October 2005, when they had chased three young people that were themselves shelters in one telephone exchange to you electrical worker: two of they are deceaseds, the third party has been seriously ustionato and this episode has been the fuse that it (...)
read more, comments... France: website editor faces prosecution for posting union press release
By : RSF - Friday December 1, 2006 Reporters Without Borders today condemned a judge’s decision to open a judicial investigation against Roberto Ferrario, the editor of the left-wing website Bellaciao ( http://bellaciao.org ), in response to a libel suit by the Saint Nazaire-based shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, over a critical press release by the USM-CGT union that was posted on the site. “Ferrario was not the author of the statement which Chantiers de l’Atlantique considered libellous,” (...)
read more, comments... FREE SPEECH IS OUR HUMAN RIGHT
By : Matt Norman - Tuesday November 21, 2006 To support Bellaciao sign here by Matt Norman Victoria, Australia Dear Roberto, I have read with much disgust the plight who have yourself in, with regard to comments made by you or your webpage relating to “Shipyards of St Nazaire” I would like you to keep me fully informed of what your government or judicial system does to you about this matter. I will bring the full force of public opinion onto the French Government and Justice system if you are not able to speak your (...)
read more, comments... Marie-George Buffet: "We should declare war on the Right"
By : France - Friday November 17, 2006 At the close of work at the National Conference, Marie-George Buffet notably had to say: "We measure the unparalleled stakes in the 2007 elections, for the future of our country: either to slide into bi-partism, with its hopeless succession of alternances, or instead to give rise to a popular alternative to neo-liberal politics. This must be our objective: to construct on the Left a popular and political majority, around a project capable of changing our life. This ambition, I sum up in (...)
read more, comments... A Candidature to Succeed - The Communists United and Determined
By : France - Friday November 17, 2006 PCF: Marie-George Buffet is proposed as anti-liberal [1] candidate in the presidential election. The delegates to the party’s National Conference approve by 80% the strategy for 2007. The objective: to construct a vast assembly of all anti-liberal forces. This decision will be submitted to a vote by all party members in November. 2007: The National Conference of the French Communist Party (PCF), this weekend, proposed by a majority of more than 80% the candidature of Marie-George (...)
read more, comments... FRANCE 2005 :
By : wayne madsen - Saturday November 11, 2006 FRANCE 2005: November 10/11/12, 2006 — WMR has obtained purposely cryptic e-mail sent by U.S. intelligence assets to a French government official in July 2005 accurately warning of the infiltration of French immigrant groups by neo-con intelligence assets trained in the United States to foment rioting in the largely Muslim immigrant banlieus of Paris in November 2005. WMR has previously reported on the involvement of elements controlled by French Interior Minister and presidential (...)
read more, comments... France henpecked with stick blows: Alina Reyes supports Bellaciao... Thanks Alina
By : Alina Reyes - Thursday November 2, 2006 by Alina Reyes to support Bellaciao sign here I just heard that the commitment to trial of Roberto Ferrario, as unique responsible for Bellaciao collective!!??, for the publication, as any website or blog could have done it, of a press statement from CGT related to the Shipyards of St Nazaire story, is notified by the Judge. This repressive action, obvious example of a will to control expression in the Net, is the symptom of increasing and very pernicious politic inflexibility, such as the (...)
read more, comments... One year after November 2005 in France
By : The Rage of the People - Friday October 27, 2006 By La Rage du Peuple One year after the most important urban riots in this beginning of 21th century the French suburbs burn again. Since September, three attacks against the police are committed with stones, iron bar and Molotov cocktail. Yesterday night, fire persists around Paris, 2 buses are burned and the fight against the police and authorities continue. Isn’t the school who are taken for target, in spite of an education system which excludes in the peripheral territories. (...)
read more, comments... Weldon’s Paris trips tied to cover-up of 9/11 French intelligence intercepts
By : Tom Flocco - Thursday October 19, 2006 - Weldon’s Paris trips tied to cover-up of 9/11 French intelligence intercepts www.TomFlocco.com International and federal agents active and retired within a worldwide executive intelligence network are reporting that Congressman Curt Weldon (R-7-PA) has made five trips to Paris during the last few years while French intelligence surveillance stakeouts filmed and taped Weldon’s hotel activities and meetings with Israeli-Iranian double agent Manucher Ghorbanifar. (...)
read more, comments... THE SECRETS OF 9-11 SURFACING? OR WHO GOT COZY WITH SARKOZY?
By : Tom Heneghan - Wednesday October 18, 2006 IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND ANNIHILATE THEM TOM HENEGHAN Oct. 18/06 12:30 PM PDT THE SECRETS OF 9-11 SURFACING? OR WHO GOT COZY WITH SARKOZY? Congressman Kurt Weldon (R. Penn) along with fellow-congressman Hoekstra (R. Penn.) have been now fingered by US French Interpol in making numerous trips to Paris France over the last few years to meet with Israeli Iranian double agents Manchur Ghorbanifar. Subjects of discussion included Weapons of (...)
read more, comments... A tribute to Thomas SANKARA : Paris, 15 October 2006, 8pm
By : Paris - Thursday October 12, 2006 An evening proposed by the association SURVIE and the CIJS (Justice for Thomas Sankara International Collective), with the support of Bellaciao Collective and the Parisian circle of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party. Commemoration of the 19th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s death. Movies presentation: “Captain Thomas Sankara, requiem for a murdered president” in the presence of the producer Ms Thuy Tiên Yo Sankara commited to memory” in the presence of (...)
read more, comments... France rejects "war on terror"
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday September 7, 2006 France rejects "war on terror" Thu Sep 7, 8:27 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - France issued an implicit criticism of U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a "war on terror." Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, speaking in parliament, expressed these views on global terrorism, while President Jacques Chirac backed France’s claims to the international front rank with a fresh defense of his country’s nuclear arsenal. Villepin noted Chirac’s strong opposition to (...)
read more, comments... Towards the Truth Regarding War Crimes Committed in Lebanon
By : Paris - Thursday August 31, 2006 Lebanon has been victim of what the French government has called a ‘disproportionate’ act of war committed by Israel. This war has violated international law which stipulates that all attacks should be in keeping with proportionality and a limited use of violence against only military objectives. In addition, Israeli military operations contravened the First Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which stipulates that collective punishments and actions against the (...)
read more, comments... In Lebanon, France Converging to Pre-mandate Policy
By : Nicola Nasser - Wednesday August 30, 2006 By Nicola Nasser* In a pattern that reminds of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement (1), France seems converging to a role that belongs to its previous colonial era in Lebanon and Syria, in harmony with, but under the regional hegemony of the United States’ involvement in other countries of the Arab Levant, in a stark departure from Charles de Gaulle’s post-Algeria legacy. Gone are the days when Paris was briefly perceived early in 2003 as if it was in the shoes of the former (...)
read more, comments... Zidane and the ‘war on terror’
By : Gabriele Zamparini - Saturday July 15, 2006 By Gabriele Zamparini “The France legend, playing in his final match before retirement, was dismissed in extra-time for chestbutting Italy’s Marco Materazzi” the Guardian reported. “Zinédine Zidane’s despicable, unfathomable act of violence” (1) has been unanimously blamed as a “stupid reaction”, a “disgrace”. “How sad that he should save the most shameful episode for the final page of his story” wrote the BBC. (2) (...)
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