On Sunday, Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian justified France's purchase of two American drones by explaining that France had “missed the render-vous for drones”. This must be what François...
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On Sunday, Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian justified France's purchase of two American drones by explaining that France had “missed the render-vous for drones”. This must be what François...
Thousands of people, many of them doctors and nurses, demonstrated this Sunday in Madrid against budget cuts in healthcare and privatisation of the management of several hospitals in the capital...
The purchasing power of French households chalked up a record 0.9% fall in 2012. The French statistical bureau also revised the 0.4% fall in the household consumption index for last year.
In 2012,...
Now within a hair's breadth of recession, Germany is a victim of the austerity policies it has inflicted on itself and imposed on its partners.
The modest figure for German growth in the first...
France has gone into recession with a second quarter of negative growth, like most of the euro zone countries. This situation is the result of European economic austerity policies.
This comes as no...
Minister for Justice, Christiane Taubira "has never wanted to get involved" in the debate surrounding a "financial compensation" for slavery, a position reiterated by the Council for the...
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Mao's granddaughter a millionaire
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Kong Dongmei: On the shoulders of Giants
An article is published in "China Daily" : Kong Dongmei:...
The granddaughter of Mao Zedong has appeared on a public list of millionaires leading to accusations of hypocrisy charged at a regime which continues to officially claim to uphold the revolutionary...
The demand to moralize capitalism emerged in public debate, ironically, during Nicholas Sarkozy's term of office, while he himself was embarking on ultra-free-market policy laden with scandalous...
Published in Humanité Dimanche, 18-24 April 2013.
On 17 April, a China-Africa business summit was held in South Africa. At a time when closer economic and political relations are being established...
Franco-German TV channel Arte broadcast on April 30 Jean-Michel Carré's documentary: Chine, le nouvel empire (China: The New Empire), a brilliant documentary which presents an eminently contradictory...
Afraid of the Malian army's exactions, a great many Northern Mali Tuareg fled their villages. They have been wandering since in the desert or have found shelter in camps in neighboring countries like...
Some comments on our newspaper Humanité! Submitted on April 17, 2013 - 15:42 by Pierre Kulemann. These comments are intended to help to improve the newspaper Humanité. While sometimes a bit critical,...
Mali's Former Minister For Culture Denied a Renewal Of Her Visa. Is France making Aminata Traoré pay for her opposition to the war in Northern Mali? The question is well worth asking, seeing how the...
Shall we leave face to face a Right and a Left that share the same codes?
Historian Roger Martelli argues in favor of a radical change of course: we need new policies, and a new system....
The recent Cahuzac scandal - a systemic symptom of a deep crisis rather than simply an individual's criminal act - has sent a shock wave across the French political scene. While the Right is trying...
Syria's infrastructure is being devastated by the day. The fighting is getting closer to Damascus and accelerates its inhabitants' exodus. Marc de Miramon interviews Alain Chouet, a specialist on...
This letter by Pierre Kulemann is posted in a comment to the article Journalism is not just investigation at the site.
Curiously, Laurent Etre, in the newspaper l'Humanité, cunningly attacks...
Symbol of the struggles of black Americans, tomorrow Angela Davis will be our editor in chief for a day. Here's a look back at the work of this remarkable activist who is still engaged in the...
"At Mediapart, we have never doubted our information." That is what Edwy Plenel said, immodestly jubilant, as founding director of the website that revealed the story of the offshore account of...
The World Social Forum (WSF) held in Tunis came to an end on Saturday. In its concluding statement, the Assembly of Social Movements denounced austerity and neo-liberal treaties as "not only...
Paris Prosecutor opens a criminal investigation into vote buying, corruption, money laundering and misuse of corporate assets in the Corbeil (Essonne) 2008—2010 municipal election campaigns, won by...
Rafael Correa has been triumphantly re-elected to the presidency of Ecuador's 15 million people in the first round of elections, according to official estimates. His main opponent, the conservative...
As the Parti de Gauche convention opens, its co-president, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, says “asking (the government) to shift” is no longer enough.
Your party congress is opening at the end of a period that...
On March 19, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecast weaker growth for France in 2013 (0.1% instead of 0.3%) but it is not recommending that the government adopt new...