Fox News: Letting You Decide If News Are True Since 1996
Fox News has been at the forefront of the American media for a few decades now. But, in the true French spirit, we’ve never really bothered to listen to what they had to say. Until of course, they started talking about us. That caught…
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Moving forward… and back again: India’s slow progress towards gay rights
While the fight for legalization of same-sex marriage continues in most of the United States and other nations, this progress towards an acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LBGT) rights is at a standstill in other places.…
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Le mariage: cimetière des divorcés
Vous souvenez-vous de ce que vous ressentiez lorsque vous étiez enfant? De ce sentiment d’innocence et de naïveté? De cette conviction que tout est possible? Et vous souvenez-vous du moment où vous avez arrêté de vous sentir comme cela?…
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Marriage: a divorcé(e)’s cemetery
Do you remember how you felt when you were a child? Do you remember this feeling of innocence and ingenuity? Do you remember believing that anything and everything is possible? And do you remember the moment the feeling vanished? Allow…
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Old Lady France
As French comedian Jamel Debbouze portrays it, France is not a blatantly racist country, but rather a “scared old lady with a large heritage, who needs to be reassured”. The old lady in question has recently felt a tremendous blow to…
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HSBC and Shimon Yelinek: Arms, Drugs, Diamonds and Terrorism
#Swissleaks
Shimon Yelinek is an Israeli businessman based in Panama. Behind this facade however, he is one of the most notorious criminals you may find among the clients of HSBC Private Bank (PB). An arms, diamonds and drug…
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HSBC et Shimon Yelinek: Armes, Drogues, Diamants et Terrorisme
#Swissleaks
Shimon Yelinek est un homme d’affaire Israélien basé au Panama. Derrière ce masque anodin se cache en vérité l’un des criminels les plus polyvalents que l’on trouve parmi les clients de HSBC à Genève: trafiquant d’armes,…
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Gulf States: Sportsmanship for Sale
With the recently concluded 2015 Men's Handball World Championship in Qatar came a sigh of relief as France grabbed the winning match against the host, and technically only 4/17th Qatari, squad. Surrounded by a cloud of controversy, a…
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“We continue to bleed red, blue, and orange:” The costs of the denial of the Armenian Genocide
Though Polish Jewish lawyer and drafter of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Raphael Lemkin officially coined the term “genocide” in 1944, there can be no doubt that the…
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South Korea’s Unhealthy Democracy: Regionalism
Introduction
Even 28 years after South Korea's free presidential elections in 1987, South Korean democracy cannot yet be considered healthy in 2015. South Korean political parties are roughly split on geographical lines, not on political…
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