FRANCE’S ALGERIAN NIGHTMARE
December 21, 2012 Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the frightful Algerian Independence War, French President Francois Hollande did the right thing last Thursday by recognizing the...
View ArticleOn To Timbuktu II
January 18, 2013 PARIS – Confused over the surging violence in Mali and now Algeria? Trying to find Mali on the map? War, as the great Roman historian Tacitus wrote, teaches geography. This week’s...
View ArticleStorm over the Sahara
January 25, 2013 PARIS – The bloody attack on an Algerian gas installation and France’s invasion of Mali are the result of troubles that have been brewing for years – we simply have not been paying...
View ArticleTHE FIRST PARIS MASSACRE
21 November 2015 Last week’s massacre in Paris was not, as almost every writer mistakenly claimed, the worst atrocity in the City Of Light since World War II. As the renowned Mideast expert Robert Fisk...
View ArticleNO MORE TORTURE SAYS FRANCE
October 6, 2018 ‘This is La Main Rouge,’ said the gruff voice on our home telephone in Geneva, Switzerland.. ‘Stop your activities on behalf of the FLN or we will kill you.’ The mysterious caller hung...
View ArticleWAITING FOR THE SECOND ALGERIAN REVOLUTION
April 6, 2019 Algeria has long been the forgotten nation of North Africa. But now, it is bursting into the news as the latest example of popular revolution in the woefully misgoverned Arab word. After...
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