A War the West Cannot Win (tags)
Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor emeritus at Boston University. His new book “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History’’ will appear in April 2016.
France, Germany and Russia Back Ceasefire in Donbass: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Ukraine
Failed Ukraine Peace Talks (tags)
Ukraine
Kiev's Junta: Talking Peace, Waging War (tags)
Ukraine
Merkel and Hollande for Peace in Ukraine: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Ukraine
anti-war
UNESCO Peace Prize to a War Criminal (tags)
anti-war
"Liberating Mali": The President of France hails the beginning of a long-term occupation (tags)
"Alongside the Malians and the Africans, we have liberated this town. Today Timbuktu. Tomorrow Kidal. And others are still to come. You have accomplished an exceptional mission." [France's President Francois Hollande, speech delivered to French troops in Timbuktu, 2 February 2013]
anti-war
Economic Policy, the Schwabian Housewife and Francois Hollande (tags)
"What is rational for individuals leads collectively into a cul-de-sac.. The fundamental error is that economic policy believes the crisis can be fought with the logic of a family budget. For that reason, the collapse of the euro zone threatens." France goes a different way than Italy and Spain.
European Electoral Postmortems (tags)
elections
Choice Not on Ballot in French Election (tags)
France
France: More strikes, opposition to social austerity (tags)
"At Université Lyon-2, students gathered to vote on future action and protest the detention of demonstrators at Corbas prison, according to an account in Lyon-Capitale. They criticized the unions and also bourgeois “left” parties such as the Socialist Party (PS) and its presumed 2012 presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn is currently the head of the International Monetary Fund, where he pressed for massive austerity policies and wage cuts to be imposed on Greek workers in exchange for an IMF bailout, during this spring’s Greek debt crisis. One Lyon student said: “We’re in the street because we have had enough of Sarkozy. We had had enough of [ex- President Jacques] Chirac before and we will have had enough of Strauss-Kahn.... What we do not want anymore is Sarkozy, capitalism, and globalization.”