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By PHILLIPE MARLIERE
Nicolas Sarkozy, allegedly the most Anglophile (or rather Americanophile) president of the 5th Republic failed his Science Po degree in the late 70s because his English was so poor that he was barred from sitting the politics exams. In the run up to the war in Iraq, the allegedly "Anti-American" Chirac was able to explain the French position in English before the US media, a small feat totally out of reach for the monolingual Sarkozy.
Sarkozy did not have to make (…)

The lastest opening of UCU (University and College Union) to more ’extreme views’ will not convince many people.
UCU has suddenly become concerned with marketization of British education and is calling with a loud voice for an exchange of ideas. Indeed, it appears to be a well-directed drama in which many recognizable voices have suddenly raised concerns on the marketization of British education and its deleterious end as a commodified field which will saturate and decline with the decline (…)

Thousands of police officers who refused to fight Sadr are given the sack
Azzaman, March 31, 2008
Interior Minister Jawad Boulani has ordered the dismissal of thousands of police members and officers who allegedly refused orders to take part in the fight against the militiamen of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The decision covers most of the police force in the predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and also several cities in the southern Iraq including Basra where most of the (…)

* Issue #52 of El Libertario is out . In its contents we reaffirm the commitment of this voice of Venezuelan anarchism to maintain a critical viewpoint on the country’s realities, as well as our stand in solidarity with the struggle for liberty and equality. The year begins and it’s already clear that the electoral circus will be used once again to tame the social struggle in Venezuela, a script routinely applied with success for the last 10 years. Elections for governors, state (…)

An Open Letter to John Conyers
Chairman John Conyers House Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman Conyers:
Prominent Constitutional law experts believe President Bush has engaged in at least, five categories of repeated, defiant "high crimes and misdemeanors", which separately or together would allow Congress to subject the President to impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution. The sworn oath of members of (…)

“The seizure of faraway lands by America...is a perversion of our national mission.” - President Grover Cleveland, in 1893.
It didn’t start with the U.S.’s Neocon-inspired invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. Whether knowingly or not, the morally bankrupt Bush-Cheney Gang was following an imperial script which is over 110 years old. During that period, the U.S. has “overthrown fourteen governments that displeased it for various ideological, political and economic reasons,” writes Stephen (…)

Online Journal Mars 28, 2008
A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is "so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
“The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, (…)

USA 2008: The Great Depression
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis
By David Usborne in New York
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of (…)

by Bellaciao Paris
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Our italian friends, comrades and compatriots are about to chose new parliamentarian, new government on the 13d and 14th of april...what a harsh choice - (…)

CounterPunch
The world’s largest prison—Gaza prison with 1.5 million inmates, many of them starving, sick and penniless—is receiving more sympathy and protest by Israeli citizens, of widely impressive backgrounds, than is reported in the U.S. press.
In contrast, the humanitarian crisis brought about by Israeli government blockades that prevent food, medicine, fuel and other necessities from coming into this tiny enclave through international relief organizations is received with (…)