Saturday, February 26, 2011

Today Europe, Tomorrow the “Grand Area”

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Cambridge scholar James Rogers actually presents a fairly well reasoned notion of what the EU’s outward projection of influence could be... ...

Syria Defended for Standing Up to Israel While Egypt is Excoriated for the "Cynical" and "Humiliating" Aligning of Its Foreign Policy on the West

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So why are there uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, but not in Syria? Is it because, unlike Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, the Assads are mass murd...

A Few Weeks Before His Trial, Newly-Ordained Father-in-Law Jacques Chirac Visits Paris's Salon de l'Agriculture

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A couple of weeks prior to his trial for corruption during his days as mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac made what Le Monde called a ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

This will Surely Go Unspoken

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Expect the canned, ritual explanations to be spewed. Expect French people to ask why there are laws against assaulting Jews, which is mere...

EUtopia: it’s a Loopy, Self-Referential Hell

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Where women are reduced to becoming cows . LONDON (Reuters) – A specialist ice cream parlor plans to serve up breast milk ice cream and says...

Europeans' Nocturnal Dreams about their Emissions

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Europe needs to reduce its CO2 emissions by 25 percent over the next decade, rather than the currently agreed 20 percent, if the bloc is to ...

Libya's Oil-Rich Qaddafi Through the Eyes of Plantu

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Plantu on Kaddhafi in Le Monde …

Improvised Egyptian Riot Wear v.3.0

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The look for winter is the tried and true concrete scarf.

And Daddy Drinks Because you Cry!

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Does some rich-world ruminant thinker's position on border enforcement somehow directly lead to participatory government in the north ...

Refusing to Resign and Striking Back at Her Critics, Foreign Minister Alliot-Marie Is Still Rumored to Be Kicked Out of Sarkozy's Government Shortly

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Michèle Alliot-Marie has published a rebuttal to the group of anonymous diplomats who authored of a stinging attack on the Sarkozy gove...

In Mexico and Tunisia, the Results of French Diplomacy's Faux Pas Continue to Reverberate

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While Harry Bellet, Stéphane Davet, Michel Guerrin, Emmanuelle Lequeux, Renaud Machart, Marie Pâris et Thomas Sotinel report on the Mexica...

Crowd of Arab Rulers Seeking Refuge in Saudi Arabia Seems to Be Growing

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The Ben Ali Family in Saudi Arabia (by Plantu ) • You will have to scoot over, we're expecting Qaddafi!
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Dude! I’m Sooooo Baked

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From the vast archives of ¡No Pasarán! (sie werden nicht durchkommen!!!): Camel milk, camel steak, camel headcheese, camel florentine ... I...

What About Those Greek Riots Which American Demonstrators Are Supposed to Emulate?

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Regarding the clamoring, from the likes of Frances Fox Piven , for American demonstrators to take example on Greece's riots, along with...

Dude! We're Sooooo Baked

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Or... How’d they learn to shoot so well?

"Europe is powerless, Africa escapes us, the Mediterranean won’t talk to us, China has kept us down, and Washington is ignoring us!”

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Already covered earlier this week on No Pasarán , the sorry state of France's diplomacy in the Arab world — appropriately called gauche ...

The Europeans and Their Ineffectual Diplomacy

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(The EU's) Catherine Ashton to the Libyans • OK, OK, kids, let's calm down! (A larger image of the Plantu cartoon can be seen by ...

What the Democrats are telling us is that they would rather have no legislature than allow legislation that breaks the power of the unions

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Why are Democrats ready to give everything in a last stand for public employees' unions? Because government employment is the socialist ...

One Reaction to Plantu's Cartoon on the Arab World's Decrepit Dictators Opines that Le Monde's Aging Apparatchik Ought to Include Himself Among Them

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Among the Le Monde readers critical of Plantu is one (Maxime Malecki) writing that maybe the aging Le Monde " apparatchik " oug...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Improvised Egyptian Riot Wear v.2.0

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Well protected against Nerf balls and salad tongs, no doubt.