EDITOR—The Evian agreements of March 18, 1962 and the cease-fire they instituted, ended the war between the French army and the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN) and began a “transitional period,” which ended with the referendum of self-determination on July 1, 1962. The resounding “yes” vote led to the transfer of sovereignty from the French to the Algerian authorities on July, 3 and to the official celebration of Independence on July 5. The date of July 5th had been deliberately chosen by the Algerian provisional Government as a historical reference to July 5, 1830, when the city of Algiers had surrendered to the French occupiers.
FRENCH CRYPTOFASCISM
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France never stopped looting Africa, now the tables are turning
24 minutes readBRAD PEARCE—France heavily relies on nuclear energy, with 68 percent of its power coming from nuclear plants. It obtains 19 percent of the uranium required to run these plants from Niger. Despite this significant contribution toward France’s energy needs, only 14.3 percent of Nigeriens have access to a power grid, and even that is often unreliable. This stark contrast highlights the disparities and ongoing exploitation by rapine foreign powers throughout the African continent.
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PRESS TV’S MARZIYEH HASHEMI JOINS JEFF J. BROWN TO DISCUSS THE VERY MISGUIDED, TOTALLY USELESS FRENCH PROTESTS
15 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—Poverty is exploding here. This is what they need to be protesting. And so, Macron and the power elites love this because it’s a waste of time and they should be protesting neoliberal capitalism, jungle capitalism, the impoverishment of the people, taking away medical care, and medical benefits, closing tens of thousands of hospital beds, getting rid of nurses. This is what they ought to be protesting. But they don’t.
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How ‘Democracies’ Degenerate Into Minoritarian Right-Wing Governments (Aristocracies)
16 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—After the recent French Parliamentary elections, the current French President, Emmanuel Macron, who has often been ruling by decree, will do so even more than before. As the Iranian journalist in Paris, Ramin Mazaheri, recently said: “Elections at just 46% turnout are a hair’s breadth away from not having democratic credibility, but that must be added with [to] the constant use of the 49-3 executive decree and the certainty of a Brussels’ veto for any legislation they don’t like. It combines to modern autocracy – rule by an oligarchical elite.”
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THIERRY MEYSSAN—While still in Caracas, I was invited to a dinner together with my companion. When our plates arrived, my friend didn’t feel very hungry, so we switched them discreetly since, for some obscure reason, I had received a conspicuously smaller helping than most people. Back in our hotel, he was suddenly overcome by trembling, loss of consciousness and was rolling on the floor while foaming at the mouth. When the doctors arrived, they immediately exclaimed: this man has been poisoned. They saved him in the nick of time. Two days later, a dozen uniformed officers of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service came to apologize and to let us know they had identified the foreign agent behind the operation. Now in a wheelchair, it took my friend six months to recover.