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Will France sell its warships to Russia?

22 March 2014

Carried away by its own discourse on the independence of Crimea and its adhesion to the Russian Federation, France is trying to come up with sanctions against Moscow. In this perspective, and while Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut had told his Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that the "Mistral" (...)

May 16, 1968

The occupation of French factories begins

16 May 2005

After being on strike for 18 days, demanding a minimal wage, the reduction of the minimum age for retirement and the abrogation of the anti-strike laws of 1963, workers from a repair shop in Nantes decided, in view of the stagnation of negotiations, to occupy their factory. The workers of (...)

The Colombia Plan

Cocaine, Oil and Mercenaries

by Paul Labarique

14 February 2005

The Colombia Plan, presented in 1998 by President Andrés Pastrana as a program for economic development without drugs, is actually a front for the deployment of US troops in the country. The military operations directed - from Washington - by General McCaffrey have cost the lives of thousands (...)