Ses billets de blog

• The US' and GE's war on Alstom

  28 déc. 2019 Par Evan Jones
  Frédéric Pierucci was jailed for 25 months in US prisons, patsy for the US' crippling of Alstom and GE's takeover of Alstom Energy. This was facilitated by various French parties in a complicity amounting to economic treason, given Alstom's crucial significance to the French economy. Now the sellout is playing out in GE's dismantling of capacity at Belfort. Whence the 'dirigisme'?

• The BNP 'Helvet Immo' Loan Scandal

  22 déc. 2019 Par Evan Jones
  BNP is in court for the issuing of toxic housing loans to French borrowers in 2008-09 denominated in Swiss francs. The borrowers confront an intolerable escalation of the debt principal. Foreign currency loans were pushed extensively in Eastern Europe in the 2000s, with an ongoing widespread crisis for borrowers. A 1980s precedent in Australia was ignored.

• Macron’s Achilles Heel: the Toulouse Airport Privatization

  22 déc. 2019 Par Evan Jones
  The privatization of the Toulouse-Blagnac airport under Emmanuel Macron's direction in 2014 is a scandal. Subsequent events - the plundering of the airport's financial reserves by the acquirer, the ultimate complicity of the courts in the process - have compounded the scandal. It is a salutary lesson regarding the damage done to the public interest by the privatization of public infrastructure.

• L’Antisémite de Pascal Boniface et ses leçons

  23 mars 2018 Par Evan Jones
  Le lobby pro-Israël fonctionne sur la présomption qu’il faut que la raison et la preuve, après quoi même l’humanité, soit abandonnées. Boniface note (L'Antisémite, p.123) : « Si je critique le gouvernement israélien, cela ne peut être à la suite d’un raisonnement ou d’une analyse, mais parce que je suis payé pour. Cela évite de se remettre en cause et permet une confortable détestation. »