According to a UPI report from last Friday, Khaled Al-Masri has been granted a visa for the United States. The report cites an unnamed state department official as follows: “Khaled el-Masri was found inadmissible to the United States on the basis of … terrorist activities, and issued a visa on the basis of a waiver [...]
Here an image of the first page of Le Figaro today. Note the large headline in the middle of the page. It reads: "The Americans attack the European Stock Exchanges". Referring to the planned fusion between the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the European exchange, Euronext — here interpreted as a "seizure of control" [mainmise] [...]
Rumor has it that Democrats are eager to use their newly acquired power in Congress to “investigate” a variety of “uninvestigated scandals” linked to the Bush Administration: among them the use of “CIA secret prisons” in the conduct of the war with Islamic terror organizations. If they do in fact open in inquiry into this [...]
In accepting the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush has thrown a first bone to his European critics and the Euro-wannabes in the Democratic Party. But there should be no mistaking the fact that "European" hostility to Rumsfeld — which is to say, in reality, Franco-German hostility to Rumsfeld — had to do not with [...]
In an article that appeared in December 2005, the French journalist Michel Gurfinkiel asked: “Is Freedom of Speech under Threat in France?” Nearly one year on, and following a Parisian court’s ruling in the first Al-Dura defamation case, there is no longer room for doubt. For a recap of the Al-Dura/France2 affair and an analysis [...]
