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Journey to the End of the Night: The Paris ’Nuit Debout’ movement

by Gearoid O’Colmain

Paris (France) | 21 April 2016

Gearoid O’Colmain visited Republic Square in Paris to see there the movement "Nuit debout". To his disappointment, what is presented as a citizen speaking was a leftist rally. Here, far from seeing in capitalism "the highest stage of imperialism", we deplore the lies of a great boss, but no one (…)

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Mordechai Vanunu: "Iran poses no threat"

by Silvia Cattori

10 November 2011

Against the current backdrop of Israeli talk of pre-emptive strikes against Iran’s alleged military nuclear facilities, Voltaire Network is republishing this exclusive 2005 interview of Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. Twenty-five years ago, this former Israeli nuclear technician exposed (…)

Witch hunts in "free" Libya

by Lizzie Phelan

London (United Kingdom) | 22 September 2011

While NATO’s mandate enjoins it to protect civilians, the Alliance allows the forces of the Libyan National Transition Council to continue their abuses. After hunting down black Africans, the summary executions now extend to members of the Qadhadhfa tribe, that of the fallen Leader. Hundreds of (…)

Freedom Flotilla 2

Too many headwinds to take to sea but the struggle goes on

by Silvia Cattori

5 July 2011

Under pressure from Israel and the United States, the embattled Greek government has prohibited the Freedom Flotilla from sailing to Gaza from its ports. But for its organizers, the fight has just begun and Israel will be kept under pressure by civil society who will continue to denounce the (…)

Under the guise of humanitarian intervention

Africom’s Covert War in Sudan

by Keith Harmon Snow

11 March 2009

Sudan holds important oil reserves in its South, becoming the focus of growing competition for influence between the US and China, the leading recipient of Sudanese oil. The US has responded to China’s growing influence in Africa with the formation of the United States Africa Command, or (…)

The 2007 French Presidential election

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan : "France must withdraw from NATO"

by Silvia Cattori

Paris (France) | 16 March 2007

The merger between the main French right-wing parties permitted to the Atlanticists to gain the upper hand over the Gaullists and to their champion, Nicolas Sarkozy, to become the UMP candidate. Getting in resistance, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan resigned from the only party of the right and announced (…)

The “War against Terror” is a War against the People

by Silvia Cattori

6 November 2006

In this interview recorded by Swiss journalist Silvia Cattori in November
2005 - more than six months before the war launched against Lebanon by
Israeli army in summer 2006 – Youssef Aschkar was warning that the
destabilization of Lebanon, Syria and Iran was under way, and that Lebanon
was (…)

The Yugoslav Caldron

Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists”

by Silvia Cattori

14 August 2006

In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps (…)

Dispatch from Palestine - Nablus: "It is our life"

by Silvia Cattori

Nablus (Palestine/Israel) | 19 July 2006

While the world witnesses the destruction of Lebanon by Israel, the occupation of Palestine goes on its way . While the cameras are turned towards Beirut, all elements are brought into play to suffocate the Palestinians and to force them to flee their shelters. Sylvia Cattori went to the field (…)

“Ending genocide in Darfur”

by David Tuller, John Heffernan

10 March 2006

In September 2004, the Bush administration said that murder, rape and violence in Darfur constituted genocide. Since that moment on, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, but the responsible ones for such a massacre (the Sudanese government and the militias) continue to wage their (…)

“No left turn”

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

17 January 2006

When the Aymaran indegenous leader Tupac Katari was executed in 1781 by Spanish colonial rulers, he cried out that he would return incarnated in millions. The overwhelming victory of Evo Morales, being himself also an Aymaran aborigine, seems that Katari was right. His electoral victory was (…)

“Will Germany’s Coalition work?”

by Henry Kissinger

15 December 2005

Angela Merkel has become the German Chancellor at a critical moment for this country due to its economic problems. With regard to the European construction, Germany is trapped between its traditions and the need of transforming the Atlantic Alliance. When I saw the elections’ results, I thought (…)

“Was Newsweek Really Wrong?”

by Linda S. Heard

20 May 2005

The entire Muslim world rebelled after Newsweek published an article affirming that interrogators at Guantanamo, the most famous of American gulags, had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. There were violent demonstrations in Afghanistan in which Muslims leaders demanded the culprits be (…)

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