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Cyril Capdevielle

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Media concentration in France

by Cyril Capdevielle

9 February 2006

The publication of the report made by the Lancelot Commission in January with regard to media concentration in France had, as its first impact, the rise of shares prices of the great groups of the sector. The report concluded that the current state of concentration in the media sector is not a (…)

The effervescence of a continent

Latin America escapes from the United States

by Cyril Capdevielle

1 February 2006

Is Washington losing Latin America?, wonders Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the very elitist Council on Foreign Relations.
Relations between the United States and Latin America are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Washington’s interest (…)

Propaganda

Is it necessary to burn Hugo Chávez?

by Cyril Capdevielle, Thierry Meyssan

18 January 2006

An organization for the defence of human rights, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and French journals Libération and Le Monde continue to spread defamatory accusations against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, calling him an anti-Semite. Clearly acting in bad faith, they manipulated a mutilated (…)

The superpower without complex

by Cyril Capdevielle

17 January 2006

From now on, the American empire assumes itself with no complex at all, it’s even theorized by the elites of a country that accepts that democratic ideals are not theirs anymore. Thus, the Heritage Foundation held a conference on the lessons of the Roman empire for today’s America (The Lessons (…)

UNICEF Report

Invisible children

by Cyril Capdevielle

17 January 2006

A UNICEF report recently issued addressed the situation of children worldwide. It was not surprising that the figures published revealed a catastrophic situation. Mostly because half of the births that take place in developing nations are not registered, thus turning these children into (…)

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

NATO: an alliance for freedom

by Cyril Capdevielle

16 January 2006

Reforming NATO and turn it into an instrument of the war on terror is the ambition of a think tank chaired by José María Aznar and whose proposal is that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mimics exactly the current war machinery of the United States. NATO would turn, from a military (…)

Bolivia hands over its missiles to the United States

by Cyril Capdevielle

Paris (France) | 16 January 2006

Evo Morales, “cocalero” and MAS (Movement towards Socialism) leader, and presidential candidate for elections in Bolivia scheduled for December 18, recently stated that 28 MHN-5 surface-to-air missiles made in China had disappeared. The missiles were in Bolivian arsenals and handed over to the (…)

Report of the US National Security Council

Strategy for victory in Iraq

by Cyril Capdevielle

12 January 2006

Recently published by the White House, the “Strategy for victory in Iraq” is, first of all, a communication document for US public opinion that is increasingly more skeptical regarding the relevance of troops in Iraq and which demands that the “boys” come home. In such a communication, it is (…)