France

Wars Of Vengeance Will Not Work For France, Just As They Failed The US

November 16, 2015 Phyllis Bennis, www.thenation.com Resist! France

By Phyllis Bennis for The Nation - France is in mourning and in shock. We still don’t know how many people were killed and injured. In fact, there’s a lot we still don’t know—including who was responsible. The ISIS claim of responsibility tells us virtually nothing about who really planned or carried out the attacks; opportunist claims are an old story. But the lack of information hasn’t prevented lots of assumptions about who is “obviously” responsible and what should be done to them. Already the call is rising across France—“this time it’s all-out war.” But we do know what happens when cries of war and vengeance drown out all other voices; we’ve heard them before.

Non-French War Deaths Matter

November 16, 2015 Staff, www.worldbeyondwar.org Educate! France, Terrorism

By Staff of World Beyond War - We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places. We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day. “This is not just an attack on the French people, it is an attack on human decency and all things that we hold dear,” says U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham.

What Preceded The Islamic State Attacks In France

November 16, 2015 Moon Of Alabama, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! France, Terrorism

By Moon Of Alabama for Information Clearing House - November 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Moon Of Alabama" - This happened last night: At least 120 dead in Paris attacks, Hollande declares emergency. Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

France: Probe On Police Killing Of Activist Stalls Amid Scandal

October 25, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! France, killed by police, Police violence

By Staff for Telesur - This was the first time that police repression killed a protester under a Socialist Party government in France. Almost one year after the activist's death, the investigation has not moved an inch further since the police handed its conclusions to the judge in March, according to a shocking revelation issued by Le Monde on Friday; their version conveniently coincides with the government’s initial statement that denied any error from the police officials. Remi Fraisse, a 21 year-old botanist, died on Oct. 25 around 2 a.m. local time, shortly after a military grenade hit his back while he was protesting with other environmental activists against the highly-controversial building of a dam in Sivens, in the southwestern department of Tarn. Yet, according to Le Monde, which gained access to the report the police investigative body handed in March to the judge, the investigation not only stagnates, but “worse: it retrocedes.”

Air France Protests: Six Workers Arrested After Shirt-Ripping Scenes

October 13, 2015 Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com Resist! France, Protests

By Kim Willsher for The Guardian - Six Air France workers have been arrested on suspicion of attacking company directors, a week after staff ripped off executives’ shirts in a protest over job cuts. Police arrived at the homes of suspects on Monday morning after allegedly identifying them from footage of airline staff forcing their way into a directors’ meeting where 2, 900 redundancies were being announced. Police and judicial sources said five Air France staff, all members of the CGT union, were arrested at their homes in the Paris region and would be held in custody in the capital.

Air France Execs’ Clothes Ripped Off By Workers Facing Layoffs

October 6, 2015 Claire Bernish, www.theantimedia.org Resist! France, Protests

By Claire Bernish for Anti Media - Roissy-en-France, Paris — Two Air France senior executives were stripped of much of their clothing by a frenzied, irate crowd protesting massive job cuts at the airline. A meeting of the company’s Central Committee (CCE) in Roissy-en-France came to an abrupt conclusion when the crowd of about 100 furious staff protesters swooped toward Air France Assistant HR Director Xavier Broseta, peeled his shirt and tie from his body, and forced him to escape with the assistance of security guards. Likewise, the head of Air France in Orly, Pierre Plissonnier had to seek safety with a boost from security over a fence — after his shirt and suit coat were reduced to shreds at the hands of the incensed crowd.

Car Free Paris Results In Less Air & Noise Pollution

October 5, 2015 Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com Create! Environement, France, pollution

Kim Willsher for The Guardian - Paris’s “day without cars” last week led to such a dramatic drop in both air and noise pollution that the mayor’s office is now planning more vehicle-free days in the French capital. Airparif, which measures city pollution levels, said levels of nitrogen dioxide dropped by up to 40% in parts of the city on Sunday 27 September. There was almost one-third less nitrogen dioxide pollution on the busy Champs Elyées than on a similar Sunday. Along the Seine in the city centre, levels were down by about 40%. At the busy Place de l’Opera, levels were 20% lower. Bruitparif, which measures noise, said sound levels dropped by half in the city centre.

Saudi King Cuts French Vacation Short Due To Protests

August 4, 2015 Holly Ellyatt, www.ap.org Resist! France, Saudi Arabia

By Holly Ellyatt for Associated Press - The Saudi king's visit to his family's French Riviera mansion is over after weeks of controversy surrounding the closure of a public beach during his stay, the top state official in the area said on Monday. Sub-prefect Philippe Castanet said that the small, isolated beach was reopened after the departure Sunday of King Salman following an eight-day stay. Beachgoers had briefly won a halt to the preparations for his arrival, delaying the elevator construction and closure of the beach. Falcou's group had planned to deliver a petition against the closure on Tuesday, the anniversary of the 1789 abolition of feudalism in France.

Greece’s Capitulation Reveals Deep Conflicts Within Eurozone

July 13, 2015 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Educate! Austerity, European Union (EU), Finland, France, Germany, Greece

By Jerome Roos for ROAR - For the past two weeks, day-to-day life in Greece has been suspended on a political pendulum swinging violently from one extreme to the other. Between bank runs and mass mobilizations, heroic victories and inglorious defeats, financial blackmail and popular defiance, the future of this small country — and of the entire currency union of which it is a part — still hangs in the balance. It has been an emotional roller coaster throughout, with the collective heartbeat in Athens oscillating wildly between hope and desperation; between the tears of joy at Syntagma on the night of the referendum victory and the cries of agony resounding from the same square just days later, as prime minister Tsipras and his Syriza-led government prepared to capitulate. In the end, the overwhelming sensation is one of confusion and disbelief. What just happened? Was that real? The European Monetary Union is a mortally wounded animal preying blindly on its own tail. The Greek debt saga is merely the signal crisis of its eventual demise; even if it is eventually “resolved”, more intense conflicts are undoubtedly to come.

Clinton Emails On Libya Show Deadly Echoes Of French Colonialism

July 12, 2015 Conn M. Hallinan, www.dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com Educate! Benghazi, France, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Oil, Wars and Militarism

By Conn M. Hallinan for Dispatches From The Edge - While the Benghazi emails do raise questions about Hilary Clinton’s veracity, the real story is how French intelligence plotted to overthrow the Libyan leader in order to claim a hefty slice of Libya’s oil production and “favorable consideration” for French businesses. According to the memos, in return for money and support, “the DGSE officers indicated that they expected the new government of Libya to favor French firms and national interests, particularly regarding the oil industry in Libya.” Another May 5 email indicates that French humanitarian flights to Benghazi included officials of the French oil company TOTAL, and representatives of construction firms and defense contractors, who secretly met with Council members and then “discreetly” traveled by road to Egypt, protected by DGSE agents.

Austerity Has Failed: Open Letter From Piketty To Angela Merkel

July 8, 2015 Thomas Piketty , Jeffrey Sachs , Heiner Flassbeck , Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis, www.thenation.com Create! Finance and the Economy, France, Germany, Truth

By Thomas Piketty , Jeffrey Sachs , Heiner Flassbeck , Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis in The Nation - The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working. Now Greece has loudly said no more. As most of the world knew it would, the financial demands made by Europe have crushed the Greek economy, led to mass unemployment, a collapse of the banking system, made the external debt crisis far worse, with the debt problem escalating to an unpayable 175 percent of GDP. The economy now lies broken with tax receipts nose-diving, output and employment depressed, and businesses starved of capital. The humanitarian impact has been colossal—40 percent of children now live in poverty, infant mortality is sky-rocketing and youth unemployment is close to 50 percent.

Protests Against Job Loss Close Tunnel Between France And UK

June 25, 2015 Don Melvin, www.cnn.com Resist! France, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights and Jobs

The tunnel that runs under the English Channel between England and France was closed Tuesday afternoon, cutting off a key link between the European continent and the British Isles. All traffic was suspended starting at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET), because protesters broke into the tunnel entry site in France and set tires on fire, a Eurotunnel press officer told CNN. He declined to give his name. Eurotunnel -- Groupe Eurotunnel SE -- manages the channel tunnel, sometimes referred to as the Chunnel, earning money from the Eurostar passenger train service and trains owned by other companies that use the passageway. Would-be passengers trying to contact Eurotunnel got a recorded message saying, "Our passenger service is temporarily suspended."

Wikileaks: NSA Spied On Last Three French Presidents

June 24, 2015 WikiLeaks, www.wikileaks.org Educate! France, Wikileaks

By WikiLeaks - Today, 23 June 2015, WikiLeaks began publishing "Espionnage Élysée", a collection of TOP SECRET intelligence reports and technical documents from the US National Security Agency (NSA) concerning targeting and signals intelligence intercepts of the communications of high-level officials from successive French governments over the last ten years. The top secret documents derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of French Presidents Francois Hollande (2012–present), Nicolas Sarkozy (2007–2012), and Jacques Chirac (1995–2007), as well as French cabinet ministers and the French Ambassador to the United States. The documents also contain the "selectors" from the target list, detailing the cell phone numbers of numerous officials in the Elysee up to and including the direct cell phone of the President.

France Continues To Sell The Artifacts Of Genocide

June 17, 2015 Robert A. Williams Jr., www.truth-out.org Educate! France, Genocide, Indigenous People

By Robert A. Williams Jr. in Truthout - The French government has once again failed to stop an auction of sacred Hopi artifacts by a Paris auction house, this one occurring on June 10. France's continuing complicity in this artful form of cultural genocide is particularly disturbing, given its own complicated history of involvement in the Nazis' systematic plunder of tens of thousands of works of art from the private collections of European Jews. The French should be particularly sensitive to the provenance of the claims of the Hopi tribe of Arizona. The Hopi (who call themselves Hopitu, or "the peaceful people") have suffered religious persecution along with theft, plunder, destruction and appropriation of their ceremonial and sacred art objects since their first contacts with European-derived colonizers in the 16th century.

French Minister Seeks To Restrict Weed Killers

June 16, 2015 Sarah Caspari, www.csmonitor.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, France, Public Health

By Sarah Caspari in Christian Science Monitor - If Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal has her way, amateur gardeners in France will no longer be able to purchase weed-killers containing glyphosate, citing health concerns. "France must be offensive on stopping pesticides," Royal said of the herbicides on French television, according to Reuters. In a March report, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Originally developed in the 1970s by Monsanto under the name Roundup, glyphosate has been available in generic forms after the company's last commercial patent expired in 2000. Roundup remains the world's most widely used weed-killer, according to the IARC.

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