Right to Food: Time to Act!

By Jacques Diouf | Rome (Italie) | 3 November 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Anti-terror hysteria masks the real contemporary political stakes, with the food issue in the first line. 854 million people suffer from hunger, as Jacques Diouf, Director-General for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), reminds us. Our foremost duty is to feed them.

Middle East Peace Conference Failure Risks Devastating Consequences

Washington DC (États-Unis) | 17 October 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The following letter on the Middle East peace conference scheduled for Annapolis, Maryland, in late November, was sent by its signers on October 10 to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The statement is a joint initiative of the US/Middle East Project, Inc. (General Brent Scowcroft, chairman, International Board, and Henry Siegman, president), the International Crisis Group (Gareth Evans, president), and the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program (Steven Clemons, director).

European United for Truth March

By David Ray Griffin | 18 August 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | A major European United for Truth march is to take place at Brussels starting at "Bruxelles Gare du Nord" at 14H00 on 9th September 2007. David Ray Griffin calls to action.

Hedy Epstein and Greta Berlin: “We Are Committed to Sailing to Gaza – Ahoy!”

By Silvia Cattori | 13 August 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Hedy Epstein and Greta Berlin, two among other personalities promoting the project, "Sailing a boat to Gaza" explain, in the interview they gave to Silvia Cattori, why the boat "Free Gaza" will not sail this summer as initially planned, but next spring.

Uncertainties of world economy

By The Bank for International Settlements ( BIS)  | Bâle (Suisse) | 29 June 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | We republish an extract of the 77th Annual Report conclusion of the Bank for International Settlements. It seems that the globalization wreaked the traditional economic rules and that nobody more knows how to regulate ample economic or monetary crises. Although we can reasonably think that the global growth will continue in the years to come, there are strong uncertainties likely to oppose this tendency. The continuing overheating of the Chinese economy and the excessive growth of its currency and its credit let feel afraid of a sudden inflation. The foreign investments decline in the United States, as this country is transformed into an antiterrorist citadel, and the decline of its productivity gains call a new sensitive decline of the dollar which, in the context of the excessive debt of the US households can turn into a disaster. Besides, the financial institutions are very vulnerable as the inherent insurance risks to their loans became impenetrable. In other words, in case of (...)

Countdown
Iran Must Get Ready to Repel a Nuclear Attack

By Léonid Ivashov | Moscow (Russia) | 16 February 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | For the general Leonid Ivashov, the former Chief of the Russian armed forces’ Staff, it is doubtless that the Bush administration plans nuclear attacks against Iran and that the Pentagon will be capable to carry them out within the few coming weeks. He is too sure that the United States will not be talked out of it by the other nuclear powers and will have to endure but a conventional counter. The only unknown thing yet is if this project will be approved or refused by the United States’ Congress.

The unipolar governance is illegal and immoral

By Vladimir V. Putin  | Munich (Allemagne) | 14 February 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | On February 10th, 2007, Speaking before the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Vladimir V. Putin denounced explicitly the United States’ fantasy of the world one-sided governance as lacking any legal and moral basis. He also criticized deeply the OSCE and the subversive usage by certain States of organizations which have of non-governmental but the name. We publish below the complete text of this very important speech which marks a swing in the Russian foreign policy.

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
Carne Ross’s secret statement on Tony Blair’s lies

By Carne Ross | Pristina (Serbie) | 3 January 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee made public Carne Ross’s statement before the Butler Committee on the the war against Iraq. This document vouches for the fact that the United Kingdom authorities have never believed that Iraq represented a threat, contrary to what they claimed before Security Council. Mr Ross is a high-level diplomat who resigned from Foreign Office in protest against Blair’s government policy. He founded the Independent Diplomat organization to advise developing countries.

Letters to the editor
About your study on Noam Chomsky’s thought

By James Abourezk | Sioux Falls (États-Unis) | 6 December 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The United States’ former senator, Jim Abourezk, reacts to Jeffrey Blankfort’s study on Noam Chomsky’s thought, which we published in episode few months ago. He confirms by his account the analysis according to which the Congress support for Israel does not serve the United States’ interests , but comes up to the pressures of the pro-Israeli official lobby.

An apology by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié to Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz and Sheikh Abdulrahman Bin Mahfouz

By Guillaume Dasquié, Jean-Charles Brisard | 2 November 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | So as to avoid their severe sentencing, Mr Jean-Charles Brisard & Mr Guillaume Dasquié signed a draft-agreement with Ben Mahfouz’s family lawyers to put an end to the current legal proceedings. Furthermore, they published the following statement:

Days of darkness

By Gideon Levy | Tel-Aviv (Israël) | 4 August 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying. The home front is cut in half: the north suffers and the center is serene. But both have been taken over by tones of jingoism, ruthlessness and vengeance, and the voices of extremism that previously characterized the camp’s margins are now expressing its heart. The left has once again lost its way, wrapped in silence or "admitting mistakes." Israel is exposing a unified, nationalistic face.

A Palestinian reports from Gaza
Gaza: "Israel wants to drive us out our lands"

By Silvia Cattori | 1 August 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale |

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

By Silvia Cattori | Naplouse (Palestine/Israël) | 19 July 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | 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 and described the terror to which the Nablus inhabitants are subjected.

Statement by Thierry Meyssan
“ New DoD’s Videos confirm clearly that no Boeing hit the Pentagon on 9/11 ”

Paris (France) | 19 May 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | On May 16th, 2006, the US Department of Defence released two videos recorded by security cameras and supposed to prove that a plane crashed on the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. The passing on of these documents - that were already broadcast in static images shape on March 8th, 2002 - to the media took place about five years after the September 11th events. In a statement made in Paris, Thierry Meyssan considers this measure as an attempt to forestall the controversy about the attacks, which swells nowadays in the United States. The ”The Big Lie” and “Pentagate” author is very glad about the broadcasting of these videos and invites each one of us to notice for ourself that no sign of a Boeing 757-200 can be seen on the images.

Struggle against Apartheid
Boycott Israel

By Mazin Qumsiyeh  | 7 February 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The annual Global Agenda Magazine, in its edition during the 2006 Davos Forum, published a political article by genetics specialist Mazin Qumsiyeh calling on the international community to boycott Israel in order to put a stop to the apartheid regime imposed on the Palestinian people. The scandal that stemmed out of such a proposition forced the staff of the World Economic Forum to immediately withdraw the distribution of the magazine and extend apologies to Israeli leaders. We reproduce the full article up next:

Open letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre

By Alain Benajam | Paris (France) | 27 January 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale |

Venezuela’s sovereignty must be respected

By Noam Chomsky, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, José Saramago, Salim Lamrani, Nadine Gordimer | 12 January 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The legislative elections held on December 4, 2005, confirmed the term granted by the Venezuelan people to the party of president Hugo Chávez. The authenticity of the elections was certified by a pluralist group of international observers, among them, a special representative from Voltaire Network. However, the US has threatened openly to overthrow the democratic regime and replace it with a lackey one. Five important personalities sent us the following call.

The World Bank Involved in a Dirty Quarrel in Chad

By Damien Millet, Éric Toussaint | Paris (France) | 2 December 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The high-flown oratory of World Bank experts about good management, corruption and the reduction of poverty is only a farce. As a matter of fact, the World Bank imposed on Chad, at all costs, an oil pipeline project that was supposed to enrich a well-known dictator who has just laughed at that institution in a masterly manner. Meanwhile, the people in that country sweat blood to pay a colossal debt without taking the least advantage of their own natural wealth. Let’s see in detail this skit on a neoliberal model artificially imposed by international institutions at the service of world powers and money.

“It is time to unite and to ensure peace”
Axis for Peace - Final Declaration

By Axis for Peace | Brussels (Belgium) | 20 November 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale | “A military coalition has launched itself into an unbridled exploitation of the world’s resources and energy reserves. Fuelled by neo-conservatives, it has increased its attacks, practicing all forms of interference, from forcing changes in regimes to colonial-style expansionism. This coalition continually violates the principles of international law as they were established by the conference of the Hague and laid out in the San Francisco Charter...”

Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights

9 July 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale |