Tag: Algerian war

Frantz Fanon

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Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here)

Frantz Fanon was a black author who mostly wrote about being black. (Of course, right?) The celebrated skintellectual began as a citizen of Martinique. He volunteered for the De Gaullist forces during the Second World War. Then he got a university education on scholarship in Lyon and became a psychiatrist.

What would he have done had he stayed in Martinique — editing some sad Leftist rag in Fort-de-France, perhaps? If that didn’t work out, then like many other islanders he could’ve earned his daily bread with a machete, chopping down bananas or sugar cane all day under the tropical Sun. (more…)

Generál Jacques Massu vyznamenává poručíka Jean-Marie Le Pena

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Poznámka Guillaume Durochera, překladatele z  francouzštiny: Text je výňatkem ze závěrečné kapitoly knihy Jean-Marie Le Pena Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), s. 396-398.

[Občanská válka mezi gaullisty a jejich odpůrci] se v průběhu 50. let poněkud zklidnila, popřípadě přesunula do jiných oblastí. Kvůli Alžírsku se však plnou silou rozhořela nanovo. (more…)

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Today I wish to talk about Charles de Gaulle and some seldom-examined aspects of the Algerian Crisis that spanned 1954 to 1962. But in order to edge into all that, I first have to talk about one of my favorite and oft-viewed movies, The Day of the Jackal (1973; the original version).

De Gaulle himself is a character in that film, since the whole plot revolves around assassination attempts on him in the early 1960s. (more…)

Lieutenant Le Pen being decorated by General Jacques Massu

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Czech version here

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 396-398. The title is editorial.

[The civil war between Gaullists and anti-Gaullists] calmed down somewhat in the 1950s, or shifted to other areas. It came into focus again with Algeria. (more…)

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بقلم: سي. إف. روبنسون

روجر جَي. ماتسون
سرقة القنبلة الذرية: حال دانيال وخداع الجيش الاسرائيلي
خلق الفضاء، 2016 (more…)

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Arabic version here

Roger J. Mattson
Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel
CreateSpace, 2016

There’s a great deal of talk about “weapons of mass destruction” proliferating across the Middle East. The mainstream media has sounded the alarm about Iran’s nuclear weapons program since the 1980s (and yet no Iranian bomb has appeared). (more…)

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President de Gaulle: The Illusions of Grandeur

The Fourth Republic, widely considered just as indecisive and decadent as the previous parliamentary regime, was incapable of maintaining the empire. In Indochina, a long war of attrition was waged, the politicians not having the will to send draftees, preserving the public from this hardship.  (more…)

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It is December 10, 1957, and a cold, dark day in Stockholm, Sweden. Inside the hall, however, it is bright and warm, with many of the world’s leading men assembled for the chance to hear directly from the bright young man about to be honored. His voice has rung out as a sign of hope and a challenge to tyrants and dictators, his work acclaimed and already achieving a place of honor in the curricula of the world’s universities.  (more…)

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A propos of . . .

Dominique Venner
Frontier Pistols and Revolvers
Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, 1996

Dominique Venner
Le coeur rebelle
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1994

Of the 50 or so books written by the now world-famous Dominique Venner, Frontier Pistols and Revolvers is the sole one to have been translated into English. (more…)