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The Colonial Past and Future of French Fascism

15Feb

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France, Literature, Politics

The Colonial Past and Future of French Fascism

Jennifer Sessions Photograph: Blandine Le Cain. Licensed by Creative Commons. After the unexpected victories of Brexit and Donald Trump in 2016, there is a certain nervousness that Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front party might emerge triumphant from the upcoming presidential elections in France – even if her current lead in polls regarding first-round voting on April 23 evaporates when voters are asked their intentions in the decisive second round on May 7. In today’s blog post, historian Jennifer Sessions analyzes how the origins and history of Le Pen’s National Front are inextricably linked to France’s experience and memory of its colonial past. As Sessions puts it, “French fascism of the postcolonial era has a distinctly colonial face.” She also reminds us that key e...

‘No Winners in a Nuclear War’: US, Russia, China, UK, and France Issue Rare Joint Statement

11Jan

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China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, USA

‘No Winners in a Nuclear War’: US, Russia, China, UK, and France Issue Rare Joint Statement

However, disarmament campaigners noted that the five nations are "expanding nuclear arsenals, spending billions on modernizing, and constantly prepared to start a nuclear war." BRETT WILKINS As the leaders of five of the world's nine nuclear powers on Monday released a rare joint statement acknowledging that there can be no victors of a nuclear war, disarmament campaigners called on them to "walk the talk" and pursue meaningful action to reduce the risk of thermonuclear armageddon by reducing—and ultimately eliminating—their own atomic stockpiles. "As Greta Thunberg said, 'blah, blah, blah.' They write this 'nice' statement but [are] doing exactly the opposite in reality." In a verbatim repetition of a historic 1985 proclamation by former U.S. Pres...

The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour

8Jan

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France, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour

AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzade For the new standard bearer of the French far right, Jewish identity provides cover for Islamophobia, racism, and antisemitism. Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago THIS FALL, France’s political world has been turned upside down by the entry into the race of the far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour. Before officially declaring his candidacy on November 30th, he spent months touring all corners of France, spreading his racist, anti-immigrant message. He has defined rap music as “a subculture for illiterate people” and called unaccompanied immigrant minors “thieves,” “murderers,” and “rapists” who “don’t belong here.” A political novice with no party behind him, he rose from 3% to 17% in presidential polls in the space of just a ...

As the planet wants to go green, France has a nuclear habit it just cannot kick

5Nov

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France

As the planet wants to go green, France has a nuclear habit it just cannot kick

With one of every three lightbulbs in France being lit by the yellow-cake uranium from Niger, its armies have garrisoned the Sahel, from Mauritania at one end to Chad at the other, as part of Operation Barkhane. War is what turns on the lights in France. by Vijay Prashad The Tricastin industrial nuclear site, cooling tower of Eurodif uranium enrichment plant operated by Areva in Drome. Photo: CC BY-ND 2.0, Jeanne Menjoulet On July 28, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Tahiti and said that France owed a “debt” to French Polynesia. The debt was related to approximately 200 nuclear tests France conducted in the 118 islands and atolls that comprise this part of the central South Pacific, which France has controlled since 1842. These tests were conduct...

4Nov

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France

As the Planet Wants to Go Green, France Has a Nuclear Habit It Just Cannot Kick

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Dan Phiffer – CC BY 2.0 On July 28, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Tahiti and said that France owed a “debt” to French Polynesia. The debt was related to approximately 200 nuclear tests France conducted in the 118 islands and atolls that comprise this part of the central South Pacific, which France has controlled since 1842. These tests were conducted between 1966 and 1996. Macron did not apologize for the environmental and human damage caused by these tests. He remained stoic, acknowledging that the tests were not “clean.” “I think it’s true that we wouldn’t have done these same tests in the Creuse or in Brittany,” he said, referring to parts of territorial France. “We did it here because it was farther aw...

Release Georges Abdallah: a demand for justice!

26Oct

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France, Human Rights, Politics

Release Georges Abdallah: a demand for justice!

Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rabab Abdulhadi, and several Members of European Parliament join hundreds more in calling for the release of Georges Abdallah who has been imprisoned in France for almost 37 years. BY OPEN LETTER PROTEST IN LANNEMEZAN, FRANCE, OUTSIDE THE JAIL WHERE GEORGES ABDALLAH IS HELD. (PHOTO: COLLECTIF PALESTINE VAINCR) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is a Lebanese communist of Maronite Christian origin, imprisoned in France for almost 37 years. Why? How is a Lebanese man arrested in 1984 in Lyon still in French prisons despite the fact that he has been eligible for release for 22 years? As a teacher in northern Lebanon in the 1970s, Georges Abdallah worked with the Palestinian people and against colonization. He left his region as a young man to jo...

Former French police officer confesses in suicide note to being notorious serial killer & child rapist

4Oct

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France

Former French police officer confesses in suicide note to being notorious serial killer & child rapist

FILE PHOTO. © Pascal Pochard Casabianca / AF Follow RT onA man who served as a gendarme in Paris has admitted to being behind a number of cold-blooded murders and rapes that terrorized France for decades. He took his own life this week, having been summoned for a DNA test. Identified in the media as François Verove, aged 59, he was found dead on Wednesday in a rented apartment in Le Grau-du-Roi, a resort on France’s Mediterranean coast. A note found in the flat read, “I admit to being a prominent criminal who committed unforgivable acts until the end of the 1990s,” according to reports in French outlets, which said he had died from a drugs overdose. Samples from the now-posthumous DNA test were confirmed to have matched those found on evidence at several old crime scenes.READ...

French Catholic Church enquiry uncovers thousands of pedophiles since 1950

4Oct

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France

French Catholic Church enquiry uncovers thousands of pedophiles since 1950

The commission found between 2900 and 3200 pedophile church members since 1950 — and that’s a “minimum estimate” By Jim W. Dean, Feature Image – Notre-Dame Cathedral Report due Tuesday to detail ‘institutional and cultural’ mechanisms that allowed offenders to stay in place, enquiry’s head says. …from Politico [ Editor’s Note: We have all been here before, where a long running scandal reaches the point where the uber criminals want to tie it off with making a partial admission, similar as to how burning was once use to ‘seal’ a wound, with the cauterizing effect thrown in for free. A long running depredation like this could not have possibly happened without a nation’s Intel, police and political structure being aware, as VT sources tell us this has be...

1Oct

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France, NATO, USA

How AUKUS May Damage NATO

Independent Media Institute The fallout over the AUKUS deal, as we are now seeing, has been a severe rift in relations between two historic allies, the U.S. and France. And the collateral damage may also include NATO. By James W. Carden Only weeks after U.S. President Joe Biden courageously ended the war in Afghanistan—in the face of bitter opposition from the media and Congress—came the announcement of the formation of AUKUS, a new trilateral security alliance between the U.S., the UK and Australia. The creation of AUKUS is only further confirmation—as if more was needed—that the Biden administration intends to wage a new cold war in Asia with China as its target. This is not a development we should welcome. As the Quincy Institute for Responsible S...

Rwanda’s Military is the French Proxy on African Soil

12Sep

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Africa, France

Rwanda’s Military is the French Proxy on African Soil

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: CPT Tom Byrd – Public Domain On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August 8, Rwandan troops captured the port city of Mocímboa da Praia, where just off the coast sits a massive natural gas concession held by the French energy company TotalEnergies SE and the U.S. energy company ExxonMobil. These new developments in the region led to the African Development Bank’s President M. Akinwumi Adesina announcing on August 27 that TotalEnergies SE will restart the Cabo Delgado liquefied natural gas project by the end of 2022. Militants from al-Shabaab (or ISIS-Moz...