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Snubby feeling, but still nuclear dealing

French can be hard to take at times. Remember Waterloo? One would think the French would be more thankful for their freedom won by British and US liberators. Snubbiness is what makes it special, isn’t it? We say...

Israel is in tight squeeze with Netanyahu as PM

Diplomatically Inappropriate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have hung around too long. Israel needs fresh  leadership from a new generation, IMO. Israel is not lost on wisdom, but may be...

Stop the Warring, I want to get off

While you were out I stopped writing NowPublic content last week because readership has been declining. If there is no audience and no response, what is the point? Since I have been away, writing a new book as I am...

India Finalizes Arms Deal with France and Russia

Presidential visits to India by France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev this month sent Indian defense officials in a race to finalize a series of arms contracts worth tens of billions of pounds.  Up to £100bn will be spent on weapons systems,...

France - Attack in Karachi: a scandal of state

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is under fire after a Luxembourg police probe dragged his name into a convoluted corruption scandal involving kickbacks from submarine sales, presidential campaign funds and the...

Agosta deal: Pakistani, French presidents can be in hot water

A former French president has hinted towards Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his French counterpart Nocolas Sarkozy without name them in his statement on the issue of financial benefits from the sale of Agosta submarines to Pakistan, saying they should be questioned...

Nicolas Sarkozy admits Jewish ancestry

As if his marital challenges were not enough cause for concern, "Sarco the Sayan" has suddenly emerged as the most infamous accolade of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The influential French daily Le Figaro last...

Press freedom: RSF denounces France's 'shame'

Reporters Without Borders  - RSF - announces its world ranking of press freedom, and the news is not good: France, 44th, one place further back. She has lost 33 since the rankings in 2002! "The European model...

Bin Laden blames French policy for Niger kidnappings

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, has justified the kidnapping of five French citizens in Niger last month, calling the abductions the result of French injustices against Muslims and warning they will ...

Strange country, France !!

It is a strange country, France, where negotiations are still taking place after the outbreak of strikes and not before ...

France's expulsion of Roma. A song to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

You may listen to the song by clicking hereParis, France, August-September 2010. The word is out that Sarkozy's security forces are about to crackdown on 300 Romani settlements. And they do crackdown indeed, sending thousands of Romanis back to… Romania. We all...

UK and France propose climate fund for poor

Britain has always kept its pledges when it offer aid to the poorer nations however many other countries have made pledges and have not paid the amount promised. I think France's history about honoring pledges is...

A 1967 Laundry Detergent Ad Features Young Nicholas Sarkozy

French President Nichlas Sarkozy modeled in a laundry detergent ad as a teenager to help his divorced mother Andree Sarkozy make ends meet. Nicholas Sarkozy, the French leader infamous for his unconventional approaches to personal fitness, women and religious freedoms, is...

Sarkozy Junior plays catch up with Father President

Discontentment rather than bemusement!  France is once again faced with one of Nicolas Sarkozy's now infamous stunts.  This one though seems to be reaching the limits of the French people's patience. His second son Jean Sarkozy has been tipped to take over...

G-20 Obama, Sarkozy and Gordon Brown spoke hard on Iran Nuke

  After a Iranian disclosure about a 2nd illegal nuclear enrichment facility in Iran, this morning,  the leaders of United States, United Kingdom and France made a severe statement on Iran's nuclear secret...

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