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The military operations decided by Paris in Libya (from March 2011), Mali (in January 2013) and the Central African Republic (CAR) (in December 2013), to which must be added the decisive intervention of the Licorne force to oust Gbagbo in the Ivory Coast (April 2011), have contributed to (...)
Die Linke is against the participation of the German army in MINUSMA Mission in Mali. Here is the speech in the German Parliament (Bundestag) by Christine Buchholz on behalf of Die Linke. [[This speech in Bundestag in german can be find here: (...)
France’s National Assembly and Senate have voted to extend the country’s military intervention in Mali. A resolution passed both houses of parliament on April 22. Not a single vote was cast in opposition.
Three days later, the United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 2100 , creating a (...)
Two leading voices against the France military intervention into Mali, Paul Martial and Bertold du Ryon, have written a comprehensive dossier on the subject. It is published in the weekly print and web bulletin of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France, Tout est à nous, dated March 14, (...)
February 20, 2013—France perpetrated two large deceptions in conducting its military intervention into Mali six weeks ago. These have been universally accepted in mainstream media reporting.
The first is that the unilateral decision to invade Mali on January 11, 2013 was hastily made, prompted (...)
France’s military intervention in Mali was supposed to be about repelling “terrorists”—but it was really about advancing imperialist interests, reports David Whitehouse.
IN BARELY four weeks, French armed forces, with nominal support from Mali’s dilapidated army, have wrested control of all of the (...)
“France is in Mali for the long haul.” That was the headline of France’s daily newspaper Le Monde on February 4. The newspaper’s front page as well as pages 2 and 3 were devoted to a discussion over ’what next’ for France and the world in Mali.
The views of the newspaper’s editors are explained in (...)
NO to France’s war in Mali!
Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 15:00
Location: In front of the headquarters of AREVA .; 33, rue de Lafayette, metro Le Peletier or Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (Paris)
The French government has been waging war in Mali for more than three weeks. Acting like a pyromaniac (...)
On Feb. 1, The New York Times published a major article by Adam Nossiter and Neil MacFarquhar entitled “Algeria Sowed Seeds of Hostage Crisis as It Nurtured Warlord.” The warlord in question is Iyad Ag Ghali, who heads Ansar Dine, one of the three Islamic groups that The Times says threatened to (...)
In flying to Mali, a visit made possible by the eviction of jihadist rebels from the cities of the north, François Hollande has probably thought of a cruel precedent. May 1, 2003, on the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, President George Bush announced the end of “major (...)
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The dramatic situation denounced in the appeal sent out by the women of Mali must open our eyes to a terrible reality that has been confirmed in other countries in which there is conflict: Violence against women is being misused as a pretext to justify interventions and wars aiming to grab (...)
The statement below was drafted by the Africa Collective of France’s Left Front (Front de gauche) for discussion and adoption by the Front’s leading bodies. However, despite several attempts, it was not possible to get it on the agenda of the FG’s coordinating body. The Africa Collective has (...)
A state of emergency prevails in Mali, declared by the governing regime. France is intensifying its bombing, reports of atrocities by the Mali army are being confirmed, and Canada has decided to extend its support role of France.
The French daily Le Monde publishes a report on Jan. 25 (print (...)
On 11 January 2013, French president François Hollande announced the intervention of his country’s army in the war in Mali, which had until then opposed the Malian army to the Tuareg independence movement, the Mouvement national de libération de l’Azawad (MNLA – National Movement for the Liberation (...)
On 11 January, seemingly out of the blue, François Hollande announced that France would ‘respond to the request of the Malian president’ and send forces to its former colony to fight ‘terrorist elements coming from the north’. ‘Today, the very existence of this friendly nation is at stake,’ he (...)
Mr Hollande, at a press conference on January 15, 2013 you said “What are we going to do to the terrorists? Destroy them!” A shocking, violent and warlike statement which recalls the tone of Vladimir Putin. A statement which is also somewhat imprudent in its peremptory aspect. Because in a game (...)
The French military cannot seem to stay away from Africa. Two years ago, French helicopter gunships entered the standoff in Ivory Coast and French aircraft pummelled the Libyan army.
At that time, most African states were appalled that France would once more enter into what seemed to them to (...)
“In other days France was the name of a country. We should take care that in 1961 it does not become the name of a nervous disease.” — Jean Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.
In an early French film on the colonies, Enfants annamites ramassant des sépèques devant la (...)
Emira Woods: The French have violated the UN resolution as they defend their resource interests; Africans want a comprehensive aid and political package for Northern Mali
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore.
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France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring some one thousand kilometers from south to north and east (...)
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