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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 23, 2012

  French Senate Outlaws Genocide Denial

  PARIS, January 24 (RIA Novosti):     France’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill late on Monday making the denial of genocide a crime punishable by a 45,000-euro fine and a year in jail. The bill that sets the country...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 15, 2011

  Silvio Berlusconi and Europe's decline

By RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev:     The resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who said he would step down last week, became effective late Saturday night. As in Greece, which is also struggling economically, the move was part...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 5, 2011

  Jitters abound as the euro-zone faces uncertainty

Keeble McFarlane     While it is one of the centres of world civilisation, Europe has also been the crucible of some of the worst abuses of human beings. From the early days in the dim, dark, misty past, Europeans have spent as much time killing each other...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 31, 2011

  NATO’s genocidal role (Part III)

Reflections of Fide l (Taken from CubaDebate)   ON February 23, under the title "Cynicism’s danse macabre," I stated: "The politics of plunder imposed by the United States and its NATO allies in the Middle East is in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 5, 2011

  NATO’s inevitable war (Part II)

Reflections of Fidel   (Taken from CubaDebate)       WHEN Gaddafi, aged just 28 and a colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he implemented important...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 19, 2010

  France in Haiti: A fresh start by Sarkozy?

By Sir Ronald Sanders: At last a French President visited Haiti – a country that contributed greatly to France’s accumulation of wealth in the 18th Century and which France impoverished for a century after that. Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in devastated Haiti on February 17, a month and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 10, 2009

  Contradictions in U.S. foreign policy

(Taken from CubaDebate) AFTER the G-20 Summit that captured the world’s attention, news continued arriving via the agencies on the feverish activity of the man who was the star in London, Barack Obama, the new president of the United States, who is approaching the 100th day of his...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 5, 2009

  British PM calls for ban on tax havens

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday took aim at tax havens suggesting they should be outlawed just a few weeks before he hosts the G20 summit in London. "You are also restructuring your banks. So are we," Brown said in a landmark address to the US Congress...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 19, 2009

  Violence in Guadeloupe puts Sarkozy under pressure

By Estelle Shirbon: PARIS, France (Reuters): President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged new state spending on Wednesday for those hit by the economic crisis as violence in the French island of Guadeloupe put pressure on him to avert unrest on the mainland. A union representative was shot dead and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 18, 2009

  Race, class fuel social conflict on French Caribbean islands

POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP): A general strike crippling Guadeloupe and Martinique has exposed racial and class divides on the French Caribbean islands where a white elite wields power over a majority descended from African slaves. Protesters on Monday stepped up their nearly month-long...... [view]

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