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Media concentration in France

by Cyril Capdevielle

Media concentration in France

9 February 2006
The publication of the report made by the Lancelot Commission in January with regard to media concentration in France had, as its first impact, the rise of shares prices of the great groups of the sector. The report concluded that the current state of concentration in the media sector is not a threat on pluralism, that there was not reason to be worried about the conclusions of the Commission which, on the other hand, considers that the media depend on the provisions of common law with regard to concentration.

The effervescence of a continent

Latin America escapes from the United States

by Cyril Capdevielle

Latin America escapes from the United States

1 February 2006
Is Washington losing Latin America?, wonders Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the very elitist Council on Foreign Relations. Relations between the United States and Latin America are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Washington’s interest in the region was reduced and focused the Middle East. For Peter Hakim, chairman of the Inter-American Dialogue, an American think tank that studies Latin America, the United States is not the only (...)

Propaganda

Is it necessary to burn Hugo Chávez?

by Cyril Capdevielle, Thierry Meyssan

Is it necessary to burn Hugo Chávez?

18 January 2006
An organization for the defence of human rights, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and French journals Libération and Le Monde continue to spread defamatory accusations against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, calling him an anti-Semite. Clearly acting in bad faith, they manipulated a mutilated statement in an effort to discredit a political figure that has emerged as an anti-imperialist reference for Latin American progressive movements as well as within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The superpower without complex

by Cyril Capdevielle

Empire

17 January 2006
From now on, the American empire assumes itself with no complex at all, it’s even theorized by the elites of a country that accepts that democratic ideals are not theirs anymore. Thus, the Heritage Foundation held a conference on the lessons of the Roman empire for today’s America (The Lessons of the Roman Empire for America Today). As in Rome, the United States is called to play its role as a superpower by means of war and devastation. The American imperialism is not a mental construction of leftists or other alter-worldists. It’s a reality, in fact.

UNICEF Report

Invisible children

by Cyril Capdevielle

Invisible children

17 January 2006
A UNICEF report recently issued addressed the situation of children worldwide. It was not surprising that the figures published revealed a catastrophic situation. Mostly because half of the births that take place in developing nations are not registered, thus turning these children into invisible ones for the States and their policies. Among the figures shown we could mention the 171 million children that work in the world sometimes under similar conditions to those of slavery. Endemic poverty, wars and AIDS are also the factors that account for these shameful facts.

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

NATO: an alliance for freedom

by Cyril Capdevielle

NATO: an alliance for freedom

16 January 2006
Reforming NATO and turn it into an instrument of the war on terror is the ambition of a think tank chaired by José María Aznar and whose proposal is that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mimics exactly the current war machinery of the United States. NATO would turn, from a military alliance against the Soviet Union, into a transnational military-police organization.

Bolivia hands over its missiles to the United States

by Cyril Capdevielle

Bolivia hands over its missiles to the United States

Paris (France) | 16 January 2006
Evo Morales, “cocalero” and MAS (Movement towards Socialism) leader, and presidential candidate for elections in Bolivia scheduled for December 18, recently stated that 28 MHN-5 surface-to-air missiles made in China had disappeared. The missiles were in Bolivian arsenals and handed over to the United States for “deactivation”.
Morales indicated he was planning to file a lawsuit against the current acting president Eduardo Rodríguez and his minister of defense Gonzalo Méndez Gutiérrez, for (...)

Report of the US National Security Council

Strategy for victory in Iraq

by Cyril Capdevielle

Strategy for victory in Iraq

12 January 2006
Recently published by the White House, the “Strategy for victory in Iraq” is, first of all, a communication document for US public opinion that is increasingly more skeptical regarding the relevance of troops in Iraq and which demands that the “boys” come home. In such a communication, it is also ascertained that the strategy used, obviously, is the most appropriate one … but it would take some time to achieve victory. To “Sadaam’s followers”, “terrorists” and other “rejectionists”, they will have no other choice than to live with the consequences!

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Empire
The superpower without complex

Latin America escapes from the United States
The effervescence of a continent

Is it necessary to burn Hugo Chávez?
Propaganda

Invisible children
UNICEF Report

Media concentration in France
Information, a merchandise submitted to the rules of market

Bolivia hands over its missiles to the United States

NATO: an alliance for freedom
From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Strategy for victory in Iraq
Report of the US National Security Council