Ted Koppel Channels Alan West
Ted Koppel is a widely respected newsman, but this week in an NPR interview he channeled crazy right-wing Congressman Alan West who has been widely ridiculed for claiming that 80 members of the U.S....
View ArticleThe Unbearable Cheeselessness Of Nicolas Sarkozy
Tomorrow the French go to the polls to vote in the first round of their presidential elections.The French, they vote on Sundays, because, as is well known, they are against God.They are also against...
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In France, a Right Wing Rises, the Socialists Crumble + Racism, Immigration,...
In France, the political commentary sounds familiar. After losing in the 2012 national elections, the rightwing moves farther right, taking extremist positions into the mainstream.The nation’s top...
View ArticleAfghanistan Post-2014 Reverberates on both sides of the Atlantic
With the Left in France already planning a March for Fiscal Revolution on December 1st in Paris, unconfirmed news is beginning to filter out about the possibility of French forces joining a post-2014...
View ArticleIs Marine Le Pen a Fascist and a Fraud? French Courts Say “Oui!”
In French politics, there’s no end to the toxic chemistry and mutual contempt between Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right Front National, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon who leads the Leftist Front de...
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In France, the Socialists, in Disarray, Prepare to Vote in a Presidential...
In two rounds of voting on January 22 and 29, the French Socialists will choose their candidate for the Presidential election to be held in two rounds on April 23 and May 7.However, since the...
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, The Left's Candidate, Surges in French Presidential...
With 10 days left until Round One of the French Presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen still hold the all-important top two positions according to the latest polls. However, the...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections French presidential election first round open thread
On Sunday, voters in France will participate in the first round of their pivotal 2017 election to succeed retiring center-left Socialist President François Hollande. In the all but certain event that...
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Thomas Piketty Urges Voters to Choose Macron Even If They Disagree With His...
Thomas Piketty is the French economist who pioneered income inequality studies. He’s active in politics with a movement to democratize the Euro.During Round One of the French Presidential election,...
View Article"The world can change at last" says France's Leftist leader Melenchon after...
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the leader of the French Leftist party, ‘La France Insoumise.’He doesn’t comment often about US politics, but today, he did.“With Sanders, the world can change at last.”xAvec...
View ArticlePresidential candidate calls unaccompanied immigrant children ‘thieves’,...
The parallels are obvious. French presidential candidate for the Reconquête (Reconquest party), Éric Zemmour, was a long-time media personality before turning to politics. And in an August 2020 TV...
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With one week until the French Presidential election, Macron’s lead is...
The French newspaper, Le Monde, calls the final push before the first round of voting on Sunday, April 10, a race against time for Macron. The chart below shows the trend indicated by polls conducted...
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France reelects Emmanuel Macron with 58% vs 42% for Marine Le Pen
The polls are closed and preliminary vote totals indicate that Emmanuel Macron has been reelected President by a margin of 16 points, a much closer result than he achieved in 2017 when he prevailed...
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French legislative elections : The far right shocks, the left surges and...
Yesterday, French voters delivered a serious blow to the President they elected eight weeks ago, tossing out over a hundred of his party’s representatives in the Assemblée Nationale and leaving him...
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