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11Dec

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France

Macron’s French Nuclear Farce

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER (Image: EPR design, Framatome ANP/Wikimedia Commons) French president, Emmanuel Macron, is still trying to sell the EPR, a reactor that ended up mostly on paper. I’ve been searching for the equivalent word in French for ‘chutzpah’ but so far ‘insolence’ or ‘audace’ just doesn’t quite cover President Emmanuel Macron’s renewed pitch to sell French nuclear technology to the United States. Nevertheless, that was a central purpose of Macron’s state visit to the nation’s capital last week. In a mise-en-scène worthy of a Feydeau farce, he even brought a whole atomic entourage with him including representatives from the state regulator (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire) as well as cabinet members and the (bankrupt) French nuclear power industry. ...

US, France present united front to hold Russia to account on Ukraine

1Dec

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France, Russia, Ukraine, USA

US, France present united front to hold Russia to account on Ukraine

BY SPEECHIFY Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism. INFO FacebookTwitterCopy URL Biden and Macron say they are committed to holding Russia to account "for widely documented atrocities and war crimes, committed both by its regular armed forces and by its proxies" in Ukraine The presidents of the United States and France said they would hold Russia to account for its actions in Ukraine and the European Union reached tentative agreement on an oil price cap to squeeze Moscow’s export earnings. Western powers are trying to rally support for Ukraine, which is reeling from missile and drone attacks targeting power supply, water and heat in its cities just as winter has set in nine months into Russia’s invasion. Ru...

On this Day in 1942, Nazi German Troops Take Vichy France

7Nov

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France

On this Day in 1942, Nazi German Troops Take Vichy France

By: Assistant Managing Editor https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/10/on-this-day-in-1942-nazi-german-troops-take-vichy-france/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 On November 10, 1942, German troops occupy Vichy France, which had previously been free of an Axis military presence. Since July 1940, upon being invaded and defeated by Nazi German forces, the autonomous French state had been split into two regions. One was occupied by German troops, and the other was unoccupied, governed by a more or less puppet regime centered in Vichy, a spa region about 200 miles southeast of Paris, and led by Gen. Philippe Petain, a World War I hero. Pub...

Radioactivity Under the Sand: The Buried Waste From French Nuclear Tests in Algeria

11Jul

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Algeria, Environment, France, Human Rights

Radioactivity Under the Sand: The Buried Waste From French Nuclear Tests in Algeria

BY JEAN-MARIE COLLIN AND PATRICE BOUVERET The Hoggar massif by Xenus06/Creative Commons. The Hoggar massif is located in the west of the Algerian Sahara. Prehistoric men have left stunning rock carvings there. The men of the 20th century left nuclear waste. Between 1960 and 1996, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in Algeria and 193 in French Polynesia. In Algeria, atmospheric and underground tests were carried out at the Reggane and In Ekker sites, in an atmosphere of secrecy and conflict between an Algerian nation under construction and a colonial power seeking strategic autonomy. A majority of the tests – 11 – were carried out after the Evian agreements (18 March 1962), which established Algeria’s independence. It was not until the 1990s that the first independent stud...

Macron secures second term as French President, despite huge unpopularity, amid an “ocean of abstentions”

7Jun

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France

Macron secures second term as French President, despite huge unpopularity, amid an “ocean of abstentions”

News of Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2022 French Presidential election, broadcast worldwide before counting had closed, brought forth an audible sigh of collective relief from the global corporate neo-liberal elite. The City of London, Wall Street, the French Bourse, Washington, Westminster, Brussels, and the Bundestag, in short, all the economic and political mouthpieces of corporate finance capital, of western imperialism, were jubilant at their own victory. Business will continue, they hope, as usual. An intense media-orchestrated campaign to deter left-wing voters from supporting his rival resulted in Macron’s 58.5% victory (with 18,779,641 votes) over Marine Le Pen’s 41.5% (and 13,297,760 votes) at the close of counting. More than one in three voters did not vote fo...

Obituary of Annette Beaumanoir, an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist heroine of our times

7Jun

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France, Politics

Obituary of Annette Beaumanoir, an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist heroine of our times

Annette Beaumanoir was born in Brittany, France, in 1923. Her father, Jean, came from a wealthy family but was cut off with a shilling when he insisted on marrying his beloved, Marthe, the daughter of a lowly farm worker. The family was progressive and anti-fascist, with Jean and Marthe supporting the International Brigades in Spain and participating in a solidarity committee to help people escaping the Franco regime. As a young person she learnt about the horrors being perpetrated against Jewish people in Nazi Germany, although this was information that was largely suppressed in France at the time, as it was in Britain. This was important in persuading her to join the French resistance at the age of 17, in order the better to fight the Nazis. In July 19...

22Apr

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France

The Three-Way Split of French Politics

BY MATHIAS BERNARD With the majority of the ballots counted on Monday morning, the official results of the first round of the French presidential election appear to confirm the power dynamics at work from the previous election. Emmanuel Macron (La République en Marche, LREM) and Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National, RN) have made it into the second round – in the same order as five years ago, making it the second time the duel will take place. The last and only time this happened in France was when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (RPR) twice faced off against François Mitterrand (Socialist Party), first in 1974, when the right-wing candidate won and then again in 1981, when the socialist candidate triumphed. Such stability is largely linked to the mai...

French presidential election: Why the political establishment must reckon with the costs of Islamophobia to the economy

21Apr

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France

French presidential election: Why the political establishment must reckon with the costs of Islamophobia to the economy

Islamophobia is the one subject that unites all corners of the French political spectrum, but it is a bad economic strategy that is forcing skilled Muslim workers out, writes Yasser Louati Growing racism in France has forced many Muslims to leave the country. [GETTY] There may be a continuous shift in French public debate, but one subject that remains consistent, is the paranoia around national identity and the presence of Muslims. Indeed, centring racist narratives within French political discourse has always served as a foundation to national tragedies. Weather it’s the far-left parties, Luttes Ouvrirères (French Communist Party) and Jean Luc Melenchon’s La France Insoumise, or far-right candidates, Marine Le Pen (National Rally) and Eric Zemmour, the French po...

GAMI, Lockheed Martin Join Forces to Localize Work on Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Missile Defense System in Saudi Arabia

10Apr

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France, Saudi Arabia

GAMI, Lockheed Martin Join Forces to Localize Work on Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Missile Defense System in Saudi Arabia

By: TV RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) has announced today in the World Defense Show, its approval of two localization projects: the first, for localizing the manufacture of missile interceptor launchers, and the second for producing the missile interceptor canisters locally. In collaboration with Lockheed Martin, these projects fall under the program for localization of the THAAD Weapon System. Such projects serve GAMI’s strategy to bolster relations with its international partners from across the globe along the Kingdom’s localization journey, with the ultimate target of localizing more than 50% of expenditure on defense equipment and services by the year 2030. Commenting on this momentous announcement, Gasem Al-Maimani, GAMI...

Mainstreaming Extremism: The Language of Suffering and Redemption in Interwar France

15Feb

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France, Literature, Politics

Mainstreaming Extremism: The Language of Suffering and Redemption in Interwar France

Caroline Campbell Today’s blog post comes from Caroline Campbell, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Dakota. As Campbell notes, supporters of xenophobic nationalist movements typically “deny that they hold bigoted views. Instead, they use coded language to advance exclusionary conceptions of national belonging.” A case in point is postwar disability rights activist Suzanne Fouché, who during the interwar years offered a redemptive, spiritual framework for the radical right’s “French First” philosophy. By focusing on languages of violence in Far Right movements, Campbell suggests, we overlook the power of such feminized appeals – and as a result we are surprised again and again when large numbers of white women support exclusionary movements. A common char...