Jean-Claude Paye

Sociologist, author of several books in French and in English, among which De Guantanamo à Tarnac. L’emprise de l’image (Éd. Yves Michel, 2011).

134 articles

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France – creation of a police state (part 1)

Exceptional procedures without a state of emergency

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 30 March 2016

In the context of the attacks claimed by Daesh, the French government is proceeding with a series of reforms which will considerably expand the powers of the police and the administration to the detriment of the judicial system. Given that these reforms have no bearing on the prevention of this (…)

The Paris attacks — Passports revisited

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 20 November 2015

This is almost turning into a farce, albeit a tragic one: since 9/11 there has been one single terrorist attack in which the authors, who are supposed to try and remain unidentified, have not somehow left ID documents behind. For sociologist Jean-Claude Paye, what might look like repetitive (…)

Beyond Propaganda: Improbability

Discourse of War and Doublethink, the Example of Syria

by Jean-Claude Paye , Tülay Umay

Brussels (Belgium) | 18 July 2014

Commenting on the charge that the Syrian Republic had used chemical weapons against its own people, sociologists Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay reveal the willful contradictions in Atlanticist discourse: two contradictory statements are issued at the same time by the same source, while facts (…)

U.S. law imposes itself on European territory

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 10 July 2014

European governments most hypocritically claim that the mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate a transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with Washington falls within European law. Actually as with previous agreements such as Swift, data related to air passengers, (…)

The Lynching of Mouamar Gaddafi

The Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism

by Jean-Claude Paye , Tülay Umay

Brussels (Belgium) | 16 April 2013

The display of the lynching of Mouamar Gaddafi exposes our societies for what they are. It mesmerizes and dismantles our capacity to think and critically assess a historical process. By focusing public attention on what constitutes a “ritualized atrocity” these gruesome images confirm that the (…)

The Suspension of Fundamental Rights

Bush, Obama – change in continuity

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 13 November 2012

Far from having broken with his Republican predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama has now reinforced the law of exception that he criticised when he was a senator. It is now possible to deprive United States citizens of their fundamental rights because they have taken part in armed (…)

Waging war ‘in the name’ of the victims

by Jean-Claude Paye , Tülay Umay

7 November 2011

‘Humanitarian War’ as it has evolved from Kosovo to Libya is underpinned by the increasingly sophisticated discourse that NATO acts in the name of the victims, who are unable to fend for themselves. According to sociologists Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay such discourse reflects a profound (…)

After Greece, Ireland ...

The stuttering of the Euro crisis

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 14 January 2011

The killing game begins: the Irish financial crisis repeats the Greek pattern and paves the way for those next in line – Portugal and others. To pay for the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, the United States has chosen to monetise its public debt, by palming off its bills to the rest of the (…)

The EU and the Hedge Funds: regulation or the relinquishment of European sovereignty?

by Jean-Claude Paye

22 November 2010

In a blaze of publicity, the European Union has just adopted a regulatory code for hedge funds to manage the systemic risk that they impart to the general economy. In reality, observes Jean-Claude Paye, the new directive is a sieve which will have an effect contrary to that announced. Its real (…)

The attack on the Euro and the dismantling of the European Union

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 23 July 2010

Far from being the effect of the ‘invisible hand of the market’, the crisis of the euro is the product of a strategy carefully designed by Christina Rohmer and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. It is a matter of saving the American economy by forcing the European capitals to take (…)

Who stands to gain if banking secrecy is abolished?

The G 20: Arranging Financial Markets in a Hierarchy

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 9 April 2009

The first major international operation of the Obama Administration is the G20 summit in London. It is focussed on the global domination of Anglo-Saxon finance. Two important decisions have been taken: increasing the resources of the IMF and the World Bank and “abolishing banking secrecy”. (…)

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