France Plans To Prohibit Cash Payments Over €1,000
By Jon Matonis | Forbes One of the best things about covering payments news is that you never run out of stories where various myopic governments attempt to restrict the flow of cash in a squeeze for revenue. France becomes the latest as Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault plans to erect new controls on cash transactions in [...]
Read More →Sanctions on Iran Leave 11,000 French Citizens working in the Auto Sector Jobless
Fars News After losses for French automaker Peugeot-Citroen, workers have gone on strike for 2 weeks, protesting layoffs, in Paris suburb of Aulnay-Sous-Bois.”France’s largest automaker, struggling to compete in Europe’s stagnant car market, is cutting 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay-sous-Bois factory,” Euronews stated. The decision has been taken after the French company has stopped [...]
Read More →U.S. urges ‘zero-tolerance’ on ransom demands
Al Arabiya The United States on Friday urged all nations to refuse to pay for the release of hostages, amid reports that Al-Qaeda linked militants in Mali have amassed millions of dollars in ransoms. In an interview with French television aired Friday, former U.S. ambassador to Mali, Vicki Huddleston, said as much as $89 million [...]
Read More →EU mission, African troops to take over from France in Mali
By Andrew Rettman | EUobserver The French assault force is to start pulling out of Mali next month, as EU military advisors and African soldiers move in, with talk of UN peacekeepers down the line. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius told the Metro newspaper on Wednesday (6 February) that: “From the beginning of March, if [...]
Read More →U.S. Escalate Imperialist War in Mali and Niger
By Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research Hollande visits Timbuktu and then escalates bombing operations French Socialist President Francois Hollande has visited Mali in an effort to claim victory over targeted Islamic groups based in the central and northern regions of this vast West African state. The president visited the capital of Bamako and the cities [...]
Read More →Crisis in West Africa: Where Neocolonialism Meets Fundamentalism–With Dire Consequences for Mali’s People
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. | Alternet The French intervention in Mali further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing for the last two years. February 4, 2013 | The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing [...]
Read More →French, British, US warplanes and troops in Yemen capital
Yemen Post As the UN Security Council continues its Yemen visit after holding a closed meeting with Yemeni and GCC – Gulf Cooperation Council – officials in Sana’a, the capital, residents woke up under foreign military occupation. Keen to guarantee the safety of its state officials and ensure that no faction, group or individual will [...]
Read More →In Mali, Forces Backed by UN, France, and Obama Slaughter Civilians
By Alex Newman | New American Summary executions and mass human rights abuses targeting innocent civilians in Mali are being perpetrated by soldiers loyal to the dubious Malian regime in a campaign supported by the United Nations, the new socialist French government, and the Obama administration. According to human rights groups and witnesses on the ground, the [...]
Read More →Hollande is afraid of his armies
By Thierry Meyssan | VN Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande use the French armies to pander to private or foreign interests. They sent men to their death to plunder Ivory Coast cocoa, Libya’s gold reserves, Syria’s gas, and Mali’s uranium. The trust has been broken between the military chiefs and the soldiers who are in [...]
Read More →France ‘totally bankrupt’, says labour minister Michel Sapin
By Graham Ruddick | The Telegraph Michel Sapin made the gaffe in a radio interview, which left French President Francois Hollande battling to undo the potential reputational damage. “There is a state but it is a totally bankrupt state,” Mr Sapin said. “That is why we had to put a deficit reduction plan in place, and [...]
Read More →Islamist Rebels for France: Terrorists in Mali, Friends in Syria
By Iyad Khuder | Silvia Cattori While France finds itself committed to intervene in Mali TO PROTECT THE STATE against the Islamist fighters related to Al-Qaeda (WOW), it considers the same guys, the jihadists who are shouting Allah Akbar and fighting the “infidel regime” in Syria as “rebels for freedom and democracy”! No problem, for France, [...]
Read More →France Formally Requests US Military Aid for Mali Invasion
By Jason Ditz | AntiWar Joint Chiefs Chair Declares Northern Mali a Threat to the World According to Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, the French government has formally asked the United States for military aid for its invasion of Mali, saying that the aid will conclude planning, logistics and air support, but [...]
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