Arthur Lepic

French Journalist, member of the French section of Voltaire Network and specialized in energy and military affairs.

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Crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409: despite release of official report, doubts still subsist

by Arthur Lepic

19 January 2012

Search operations conducted by the UN, off Beirut, the day after the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crash.
Surrounded by a veil of mystery that gave rise to multiple controversies, the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 off the coast of Beirut, on 25 January 2010, killed all 90 (…)

French reporter dies under armed gangs fire in the Syrian city of Homs

by Arthur Lepic

Damascus (Syria) | 11 January 2012

Reporter Gilles Jacquier, working for French state TV channel France2 and entered into Syria on his own initiative to cover the events shaking the country, died today in Homs under the fire of the "Free Syrian Army"’s rockets. This attack left 8 people dead and 25 injured, none of them carrying (…)

United States blocks sale of Spanish planes to Venezuela

by Arthur Lepic

London (United Kingdom) | 27 January 2006

After the launching of the socioeducational comprehensive programs to assist the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, Venezuela, fifth largest oil exporter worldwide, has decided to modernize its armed forces in the face of Washington’s threats.
With that aim, Caracas and Madrid (…)

A new video shows the real face of terror in Iraq

by Arthur Lepic

14 December 2005

Every day, the Atlantist media continues reporting only about civilian victims of attacks that are attributed, with no evidence, to fundamentalist terrorists or supporters of Saddam Hussein. It also fails to mention the possibility of a strategy of the tension aimed at justifying the unlimited (…)

The U.S. army uses chemical weapons against the Iraqi population

by Arthur Lepic

22 November 2005

Last year, after the Coalition’s attack against Fallujah, independent journalist Dahr Jamail published photos of civilian bodies whose wounds were similar to the ones caused by white phosphorus (deep burns in the skin, even melted skin), a chemical weapon which falls under the category of (…)

Lacking recruits, the British army offers to pay a bonus to soldiers who back a relative

by Arthur Lepic

14 November 2005

Despite a costly publicity campaign that has only enabled to recruit nearly 600 new British soldiers, more than 6 000 infantrymen resigned from the Territorial Forces of Her Majesty last year, probably due to the deployment in Iraq, whose deadline the authorities refuse to set. According to a (…)

When “Eye Spy” reveals that the British police kills indiscriminately

by Arthur Lepic

London (United Kingdom) | 14 November 2005

The “espionage” Anglo-Saxon monthly magazine Eye Spy, an advocate of arguments that could be described as leaning to the extreme right, issued in its edition of October 2005 a special report on the assassination of Jean-Charles de Menezes, which took place in the London subway on July 22, 2005. (…)

For the “Daily Mail”, the UK is not accountable to Iraq

by Arthur Lepic

London (United Kingdom) | 19 October 2005

During the incidents of September 19, 2005 in Basra (Iraq), as a result of a confrontation between the British Special Air Service (SAS) and the local police, mainly controlled by the Shiite militia, several civilians were wounded and the local population was outraged. In fact, the two British (…)

War Sponsor

Exxon-Mobil, Official Supplier of the Empire

by Arthur Lepic

Paris (France) | 16 September 2005

John D. Rockefeller created the first vertical oil trust: Standard Oil. By the means of not very orthodox methods, he ruined his US competitors and organized the tax evasion of his incomes. Later, by establishing an alliance with his rivals BP and Shell, he formed a cartel to control the world (…)

Poor people have a powerful economic foe in the United States: their own government

by Arthur Lepic

Maracaïbo (Venezuela) | 8 September 2005

Despite its known purpose of dropping oil prices to 25 dollars a barrel and the temporary opening of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve –SPR- due to the damages caused by hurricane Katrina, the American Administration hopes to increase the capacity of this reserve by a third, thus reaching a (…)

Texas: the oil tanker with a dark past

Chevron-Texaco, the first patron of the American political life

by Arthur Lepic

Paris (France) | 24 March 2005

After enriching itself with the support of General Franco during the Spanish civil war and World War II, and after having taken the best part of Saudi deposits, Chevron Texaco has become one of the 4 largest oil companies of the world. It is also the most important contributor political parties (…)

Vietnam 1967/ Iraq 2005

"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"

by Arthur Lepic , Jean-Sébastien Farez

11 February 2005

While fully bombing the north of Vietnam in 1967, the U.S. was organizing elections so that part of the population in the occupied Southern Vietnam chose a president. Eleven years before, the U.S. had openly breached the Geneva Agreements by annulling the general elections held under (…)

War and Virility

The Humvee Style

by Arthur Lepic

14 December 2004

The Humvee, the emblematic utility vehicle of the US Army since the Persian Gulf War, is currently being sold in its civilian version by General Motors and has become an indispensable accessory for nationalist millionaires. Originally conceived for out of combat movement, the Humvee is used in (…)

In God We Trust

The War Economy in Iraq

by Arthur Lepic

24 November 2004

At the beginning, the occupation of Iraq was that of a classic war of predation. But today, the impossibility of peacefully exploiting the oil resources and the cost of maintaining an extremely large contingent has made of it a financial pit. Nevertheless, the US has decided to continue on and (…)

Zbigniew Brzezinski: the Empire’s Adviser

The outrageous strategy to destroy Russia

by Arthur Lepic

22 October 2004

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s former adviser, embodies the continuity of U.S. foreign policy whether it is democratic or republican. A great admirer of Henry Kissinger, Brzezinski has always defended, praised and shown an absolute respect for the master’s two diplomacy concepts: (…)

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