A Slow Motion Striptease In France
Region: France
Slow Motion Striptease In France La Trés Grande Affaire Cahuzac Iddhis Bing special to groundreport “What bothers me is that I still have an account open with UBS... The only way to close it is to go there? With an account open there I'm fucked, since UBS is not necessarily the most hidden of banks. It stinks. Is any sort ... more
Views: 1321Innovative Approaches For Poverty Reduction
Region: FranceWritten by Julie Owono Global Voices bloggers have been commissioned [1] to liveblog the OECD Global Forum on Development [2] in Paris on April 4-5, 2013. Leading up to the meeting, our team is submitting posts about development issues that help serve as weekly online discussion topics [3] on their website (#OECDgfd [4]) The quest is on for solutions to poverty reduction with the approach of the 2015 deadline for t... more
Views: 588French Author Stéphane Hessel Mourned By International Activists
Region: France
Written by Emmanuelle Leroy Cerqueira · Translated by Alison Writer, human rights advocate, and French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel [1], whose bestselling manifesto on peaceful uprising inspired the disenchanted of Europe and the United States to organize into protest [2], died on the night of February 26, 2013. He was 95. Hessel came to the worldwide recognition with the 2010 publicatio... more
Views: 615Drinking with Mélenchon
Region: France
DRINKING WITH MÉLENCHON “O my God / am I here all alone?” Iddhis Bing I want to tell you a story. Yes, I know, GroundReport is not exactly a story teller’s site – although we could debate that – but I am going to tell it because it illumines a few dark corners that can not only bear the light, but that could be useful to those who are engaged in airi... more
Views: 475Of Luxembourg, London and Paris, and a Lady Named Merkiavelli
Region: France
A GIGANTIC FUNNEL IN LUXEMBOURG Invisible Money 4 Iddhis Bing At the end of Invisible Money 3, the ink was drying on the latest tax evasion scheme in Marius Kohl's office at 18, rue du Fort Wedell in Luxembourg's capital. Kohl, head of the tax bureau at Sociétés 6, was formalizing the tax deal for the world's third largest pharmac... more
Views: 641Of Luxembourg, London and Paris, and a Lady Named Merkiavelli
Region: France
A GIGANTIC FUNNEL IN LUXEMBOURG Invisible Money 4 Iddhis Bing At the end of Invisible Money 3, the ink was drying on the latest tax evasion scheme in Marius Kohl's office at 18, rue du Fort Wedell in Luxembourg's capital. Kohl, head of the tax bureau at Sociétés 6, was formalizing the tax deal for the world's third largest pharmac... more
Views: 1153Some Get Prizes, Others Jail
Region: France
October 31, 2012 Some Get Prizes, Others Jail A Tale of Two Reporters Iddhis Bing On the evening of October 27, the Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis was awakened by police who arrested him and hauled him off to jail. The charge? Hot Doc, the magazine he writes for and edits, published portions of the ‘‘L... more
Views: 1349From Austeritarian Europe: An Interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Region: France
By Iddhis Bing Paris, Ocober 5, 2012. Love him or loath him, Jean-Luc Mélenchon knows how to put his finger in the wound, and he does it with a skill most of today’s politicos would kill for. While the French press, and to a limited extent, the American, react to François Hollande’s proposed 75% "wealth ... more
Views: 1293NO PILGRIMS AT THIS SHRINE
Region: France
NO PILGRIMS AT THIS SHRINE I decided to brave the August sun, on two wheels no less, and set out for Nogent Sur Marne to catch up with the most provocative new sculpture in France, a cause celebre even before its unveiling. It's not often that a single piece of public art gets so much attention. The journey took me through the Bois de Vicennes, which is always a pleasure, with its Chinese prosti... more
Views: 1009Everything Depends On What You Mean By Normal
Region: France
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY NORMAL Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Paris. June 26-30 Iddhis Bing Say what you will about the pasty-faced Bourbons - one of whose descendants sits on the Spanish throne these days - they knew how to build an impressive pile of bricks. The Palais du Quai d'Orsay on th... more
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