Reports of mutinies within the army mount while tensions escalate A conference on the security concerns of the most populous state in Africa was not held on the continent but in France, a former colonial…
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A century ago, crowds in Paris were cheering, “on to Berlin!” Crowds in Berlin cried, “on to Paris.” World War I, the supreme example of nationalist/militaristic stupidity, was about to begin. One hundred…
Two decades later Paris refuses to attend ceremony in Kigali Rwandan President Paul Kagame has once again escalated conflict with the government of France by accusing the European country of playing a critical role in…
The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East. Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority…
The Venezuelan president himself, before he died, wondered aloud whether the US government – or the banksters who own it – gave him, and its other leading Latin American enemies, cancer. A little over a year ago, Chavez went on Venezuelan national radio and said: “I don’t know but… it is very odd that we have seen Lugo affected by cancer, Dilma when she was a candidate, me, going into an election year, not long ago Lula and now Cristina… It is very hard to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some leaders in Latin America. It’s at the very least strange, very strange.”
Special Forces deployed by Paris to Niger to “secure” uranium mines Reports emanating from the West African state of Mali indicate that French grounds forces accompanied by the national army from the capital of Bamako–along…
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu made his first visit to France under Francois Hollande, but his arrival was not warmly received by more than a thousand demonstrators. Hollande continued to oppose Israel’s desire for war on…
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was granted to the European Union (EU) for its relentless contribution to “the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.” While the EU’s contribution to peace…
Whatever role the UN’s Kofi Annan was playing, it appears that at least his latest statements have in fact been neutral, with the Western media taking it upon itself to then twist his comments out…