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France shows the way
Government estimates put the total number of protesters at around 850,000, while unions said between 2.5 million and 3 million had taken to the streets. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 October 2010 (18/10): France-Roma controversy
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Council: France-Roma controversy – proposing the targeting of “mobile (itinerant) criminal groups”: “itinerant”=travellers=Roma EU-LIBYA: EU signs up to ‘unclear’ migration pact with Libya EU-PNR: Mandates: Council of the European Union EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play”: exploitation of children EU-USA: SWIFT-TFTP agreement: Question to European Commission… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and… Continue reading
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France Must Repay Historic Debt to Haiti!
19 August, 2010 — The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 403 Below is an English translation of an open letter to the French government published in the August 16 French daily Libération, concerning the $21-billion (current dollar equivalent) extorted by France from Haiti from 1825 to 1944. This was… Continue reading
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France urged to repay Haiti billions paid for its independence By Kim Willsher
A group of international academics and authors has written to Nicolas Sarkozy calling on France to reimburse the crushing “independence debt” it imposed on Haiti nearly 200 years ago. The debt dates back to when Haiti, then St Dominique, was France’s most profitable colony thanks to slavery. In 1791 the slaves revolted, and in 1804,… Continue reading
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Haiti's Ransom By Isabel MacDonald
It has been nearly seven months since a devastating earthquake killed upwards of 250,000 people in Haiti. But judging from recent media coverage, it would appear the country’s future hinges on just one question: “Will Wyclef be the next Haitian president?” Continue reading
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New York Times refused to post Ezili Danto's comment on the hoax
“First let me say there are two mistakes in this New York Times blog, one the writer or his editor make themselves, the other is in the statement made by the hoaxers. The title of this piece is France Will Not Repay Haiti Reparations. It’s wrong because the debt is not about reparations but restitution. Continue reading
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HLLN 16 July, 2010: Two percent to Haiti not enough | Hackers clone French Foreign Ministry website
16 July, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Fake Website Says France will pay back Haiti Independence Debt by Ezili Dantò bit.ly/bNGy44 and at bit.ly/aLUy9G Sarkozy, Haiti, Independence Debt and Sovereignty bit.ly/9XMEAl In this post – Commentary: Two percent to Haiti not enough By Sir Ronald Sanders, Friday, July 16, 2010 | Caribbean News www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-23967—6-6—.html… Continue reading
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Fake Website says France will pay Haiti back Independence Debt it extorted at gun-point | France threatens to sue | Ezili Danto analysis: What if it wasn't a hoax?
Since we’re looking at this hypothetically as if France had made an admission of error, we ask when will the US pay its part of the Independence Debt paid by Haiti from 1914 to 1947? Compensate Haiti farmers for the lost of our agriculture per Clinton’s apology? Compensate Haiti farmers for USAID’s destruction of Haiti’s… Continue reading
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HLLN 15 July, 2010: Breaking news: France decides to pay Haiti, over the course of 50-years, the Independence Debt (17billion) it extorted by force of arms
France is repaying the historic debt of 90 million gold francs Haiti paid to France following the former’s independence at the dawn of the 19th century. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report 12 May 2010: Anti-communist mania by William Blum
If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah ‘Africa is a country’ Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh … If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like ‘Obama the Marxist’ and… Continue reading
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ICH 25 February, 2010: John Pilger: Listen to the Heroes of Israel
Daily aggregation of news and analysis. Continue reading
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US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti By Alex Lantier
The US military intervention in Haiti is criminal in both form and content. Disguised as a humanitarian rescue operation, its main aim is to build up the necessary firepower to terrorize the masses into accepting a shocking lack of treatment without protest. Even taken on its own terms, the US occupation of Haiti has not… Continue reading
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The Raids on the Resistances Bookstore Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris By DIANA JOHNSTONE
In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances” bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they were from the Jewish Defense League and began… Continue reading
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Guillaume Andreux and Charlotte Pello, “Ken Loach: ‘Make the Interests of Ordinary People Come First’”
Hundreds of thousands of people are now abandoning the old way of doing politics, tired of the establishment that has caused the current social situation. If we don’t take advantage of this moment, we may have to wait another 15 to 20 years before finding a new political opportunity. That’s why I think the NPA… Continue reading
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COHA: Bolivia’s Evo Morales’ European Tour 2009: Russia Flies the Flag Over Latin America and Everyone’s A Winner… Mostly
Washington continues to watch its influence drain in what increasingly must be viewed as its former ‘backyard’ Continue reading
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French Kissing NATO’s Global Mission Creep By DIANA JOHNSTONE
NATO’s original raison d’être, the supposedly menacing Soviet bloc, has been dead for twenty years. But like the military-industrial complex itself, NATO is kept alive and growing by entrenched economic interests, institutional inertia and an official mindset resembling paranoia, with think tanks looking around desperately for “threats”. Continue reading
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