Matthew Ehret “Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe.” President Kennedy, 1961 Inaugural Address Where China and Russia are currently leading a new …
« La France se propose de recouvrer sur son territoire l’entier exercice de sa souveraineté, actuellement entamé par la présence permanente d’éléments militaires alliés ou par l’utilisation qui est faite de son ciel, de cesser sa participation aux commandements intégrés et de ne plus mettre de forces à disposition de l’OTAN[1]. » C’est par ces mots très […]
Ce 9 novembre 2020 marque les 50 ans de la mort du Général de Gaulle. Gardée secrète quelques heures selon la volonté de son épouse, la mort du général de Gaulle, survenue dans la soirée du 9 novembre 1970, n’a été annoncée que le lendemain matin à la presse. De Gaulle fut-il toujours […]
By 1937, the German Army, the Wehrmacht was confident enough to show off its new Panzer armored combat tactics to visiting military delegations from other nations. Senior officers from Germany’s ancient enemy France were especially impressed – and appalled – at the radical new weapons systems and tactics on display.
According to one story, which may be apocryphal, a French general asked a senior German officer where the new concepts came from. “But we just read the book of your own great armored theorist, De Gaulle,” the answer came.
At the time it seemed that Paris had yet again become the center of a world revolution, but in time a quite diffferent legacy has emerged, recalls Diana Johnstone fifty years later. By Diana Johnstone Special to Consortium News in…Read more →
French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the US does not deserve the attention the news media is giving it.
Macron has nothing to offer Trump. France is only a bit player in the Syrian war. France’s military contribution to the Syrian raid was token. France does not lead Europe, Germany does, and does not decide EU policy, which is decided not in Paris but in Berlin.
Ce jeudi 26 octobre 2017, Emmanuel Macron est en voyage en Guyane. Six mois après les mouvements sociaux survenus dans le département d’outre-mer en pleine campagne présidentielle, le dauphin de François Hollande va devoir assumer les promesses sans garantie de son prédécesseur, formulées dans le « pacte d’avenir » signé par Ségolène Royal le 17 mar
Lebanese customs officers display confiscated drugs of Captagon pills found in a bus, at Beirut Port, in Lebanon in 2007. (AP/Ahmad Omar)
French customs officials said on Tuesday that they had intercepted 135kg of Captagon, dubbed the “jihadist drug”, at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport this year.
Captagon, a type of amphetamine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among fighters in the Syrian war.
21st Century Wire says…
Macaron – ‘a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food colouring’
Not to be confused with Emmanuel Macron who leads Marine Le Pen with 23.9%, as compared to Le Pen’s 21.4% after the first round of French Presidential election voting which commenced on April 23rd.
