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Austerity Is So Wrong!

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - In a new book, End This Depression Now!, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman says the current economic problems can be fixed both more easily and more quickly than anyone imagines. But politicians’ desire to slash spending is deeply destructive, and he details why austerity is so appealing even to Very Serious People—and why it’s such a bad idea.

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth Until Further Notice

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

borowitzreport.com - By Andy Borowitz - Dec. 02 (Comedy News) - In the first major policy fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures, the State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomats to “cease and desist telling the truth until further notice.” “We are working overtime to try to make sure that leaks like these don’t happen again,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters. “But until we’ve got the leaks plugged, it’s incumbent on all our diplomats to put on their lying caps.” Secretary Clinton noted that since many US diplomats are major political donors with long careers in the business world, “this shouldn’t be a reach for them.”

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France Urged to Pay $40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt"

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 17 (Interview) - France Urged to Pay $40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt"

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Europe & Islamophobia

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - By Jamal Dajani - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - ISLAMOPHOBIA has taken a range of forms in Europe, including the more traditional types of socio-economic discrimination and racist attacks historically suffered by other ethnic minorities. In recent years many high-profile incidents from across Western Europe have exemplified this trend.

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Turning Japanese? We Could Do a Lot Worse

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

healthcare.change.org - By Tim Foley - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - We hear a lot about how Americans’ health care appetite for the latest technology and drugs makes us hard to compare to other nations, so let’s look at a country that has the highest number of CT scans per capita and more MRIs per capita than we do, not to mention a higher percentage of their health care dollars spent on drugs. Yet for all of this, they’ve created a universal health care system that provides health outcomes that are the envy of the world – the highest life expectancy for about a third of what the U.S. spends.

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IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

uexpress.com - By Ted Rall - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - Two new entities, a Left Party (PG) umbrella organization trying to unify opposition to the conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy (who'd be to the left of Obama in the U.S.) and the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), have seized the popular imagination. The NPA claims to have registered more than 9000 "militants" willing to use violent force to overthrow the government if given the word.

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'Sarkozy of Arabia' Sending Troops to the Gulf

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pajamas Media - By Mr. Eugenides - Jan. 19 (Opinion) - Looks like France is finally sending troops to the Gulf, just not in the way you might have expected. Currently on a tour of the Middle East, President Nicolas Sarkozy has signed a deal with the United Arab Emirates to establish the first French military base in the region - indeed, the only foreign military base in Arabia that does not belong to the US.

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Did Bernard Kouchner really endorse the Iraq War?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:57:36 -0700

3 Quarks Daily - By Alan Koenig - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - Kouchner had long decried the tyrannical horrors of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and he often berated the international community for not coming together to remove the dictator, but he repeatedly opposed the American invasion. This shouldn't be a terribly complicated position, and Kouchner first put it in print in early February of 2003 when he coauthored a "manifesto" entitled Neither War Nor Saddam in which he opined that the "solution to Saddam will take time," that "it can not proceed at the same time as military pressure," and the United Nations should call together a conference to bring more international pressure on Saddam.

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Could France's new odd couple--Sarkozy and Kouchner--spell the end of French privilege for Africa's most venal?

Mon, 28 May 2007 09:32:09 -0700

3 Quarks Daily - By Edward B. Rackley - May. 28 (Opinion) - In the 1960s, post-colonial Africa was the most hopeful place on the planet. Post-partum exuberance in Europe's former colonies was infectious and abundant. Yet fate has not been kind to sub-Saharan Africa. From Namibia to Guinea to Somalia, the path of most sub-Saharan nations has traced an arc of intimate complicity with the predatory appetites of their former colonial masters. Nowhere has this neo-colonial continuation of anti-development and enrichment by and for the few been more evident than in France's former colonies.

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A Toast to Monsieur Sarkozy

Thu, 10 May 2007 12:35:50 -0700

Town Hall - By Fred Thompson - May. 10 (Opinion) - The election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of France has been a serious blow to those who claim that America has earned the undying hatred of Europeans. Oh, to be sure, the French media hates us, but there are a lot of people who say ours does too. Regardless, Sarkozy's victory has sent shock waves through the world's media centers. A French president who openly admires America is an embarrassment to those who view us as the country bumpkin cousins of the sophisticated Europeans. American pundits and politicians who say we should change our foreign policies to win the European popularity contest ought to be feeling a little embarrassed too. From the beginning, Sarkozy pledged to help heal the ill feelings that have existed between our two countries -- especially over Iraq. He outraged French Socialists and journalists by coming to America during his campaign to meet with our president. He has praised America's dynamism, freedoms and prosperity, and he promises to work for reforms that will make France more like the U.S. Sarkozy's victory over anti-American political forces was not just decisive; it was far more of a mandate than our own current congress claims. In his first post-election speech, he went out of his way to say, "I want to call out to our American friends to tell them that they can count on our friendship."

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Dionne: French Election Reflects Outdated Socialism

Tue, 08 May 2007 11:40:44 -0700

Heading Right - By Ed Morrissey - May. 08 (Opinion) - EJ Dionne provides one of the clearest and most honest voices of the liberal punditocracy. He never fears analyzing the shortcomings of his allies, although he usually couches it in terms of assisting them to victory. Dionne today writes an excellent column reflecting on the meaning of the Socialist defeat in France and makes the argument that it represents a rollback for the Left in the free world -- and expertly analyzes why:

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Conservateurs, Oui; Socialistes, Non

Mon, 07 May 2007 10:47:17 -0700

Mullings - May. 07 (Opinion) - A pro-American and Pro-Israeli Conservative won the election for President in France. Again, from the IHT: Sarkozy voters went to the polls with a message: it's time to reform the economy. He plans to relax the 35-hour workweek, create more flexible work contracts and reduce the highest personal tax rate from 60 percent to 50 percent.

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It's Sarkozy time!

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:47:50 -0700

Salon - By Elisabeth Franck-Dumas - Apr. 21 (Opinion) - much like Napoleon, Sarkozy is short, hot-tempered, ambitious and authoritarian -- as a Paris native who lived in New York City in the 1990s and into the 21st century, I am reminded less of the late emperor of France and more of a certain contemporary American. "Sarko," who is almost certain to be one of the two candidates who will advance from Sunday's first round to the final round on May 6, is the Gallic version of former New York City mayor and current Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani.

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Le Probleme Noir (The “Black Problem”) in French History

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:26:52 -0700

France Watcher - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Racism in France did not start with Sarkozy, who is himself a stark illustration of the race issue. A black French person with as much claim to frenchness and the identical qualifications as Sarkozy cannot even dream of becoming interior minister of France. The lexicon does not exist in France to discuss racism, because officially racism does not exist.

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