Paris, July 12, 2026. By Socrates George Kazolias
Somehow civilisational conflict between communities in France, notably between the overwhelmingly Zionist Jewish community, and the Banlieues youth of recent immigrant background with their own form of antisemitism is serving the interests of the hard, ‘identitarian’ right,’ and the Palestinian cause is paying the price.
Paris, July 3, 22026. By Socrates George Kazolias
Le Temps de Cerises celebrates its 50th Birthday.
In 1976, a group of Anarcho – Syndicalists, with visions of the May-68 revolt still dancing in their head, decided they would take over a run down, working-class, area in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris: La Butte aux Cailles. They opened a series of bars, each named after a stanza from the 1848 Revolution theme song: Le Temps des Cerises, and a restaurant by the same name.
Paris, November 28, 2025, by S.G. Kazolias.
Nearly half the Muslims in France, 15 and older, believe Islamic Sharia Law should be applied in the countries where they live, according to a study published in November by the French polling institute, IFOP.1 This adhesion to rigorous Islam is higher among those aged 15 to 24, that is to say, youth born in France of recent Muslim migration and holding French citizenship. The French model of integration does not work.2
Paris, Oct. 8, 2025. By Socrates George Kazolias
France is in crisis. But France is not alone. The French (possibly the British too) will probably go to the polls within a year. The chaos may grow violent when, as predicted, the hard right anti-immigrant and EU sceptics come to power. After Marx’s The Civil War in France, the new version of the book could well be written from the other side of the aisle this time.
Socrates George Kazolias, August 6, 2025
A Gaza Palestinian student has been deported from France to Qatar for allegedly sharing online antisemitic, even pro-Hitler, posts. Her treatment underlines the double standards in France when it comes to dealing with hate speech, racism and ‘terrorism.’
Paris, April 4, 2023, by Socrates George Kazolias
On March 28, the French National Assembly enacted a law recognizing the 1931-1932 famine that hit the Soviet Union as a “Genocide” against the Ukrainians through a “planned famine” known as “Holodomor.” The law means anybody who denies it was a genocide against the Ukrainians, or excuses it in any form, now faces up to one year in prison and €45,000 in fines.
Similar legislation had been voted on the genocides of the Jews by the Nazis in 1990 and of the Armenians by the Turks in 2001.
Qualifying the Soviet famine as a genocide against Ukraine is very problematic on several fronts and guts the word “Genocide” of its true meaning. Jewish Frenchmen and Armenian descendants who support the anti-negationism law, known as ‘Loi Gayssot,’ should be outraged. Or has the definition of “Genocide” changed? More on the famine below but first the law itself.
By Socrates George Kazolias–Paris, March 14, 2023:
The New York Times has used anonymous sources to discredit Seymour Hersh for using anonymous sources when he blamed the US for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines. The question is who has a better track record: Hersh or the Gray Lady of WMD fame? (1) I have come under criticism for my previous article insisting that the press fulfill its role of filtering the spin, or even worse, I am accused of encouraging the censorship of those in power.
Separating fact from fiction and sifting through the fluff to bring out the important, is the very definition of journalism. That journalists have lost their honor and professionalism may be true, but it is none-the-less their job. They are not paid to just hold an open microphone for spin-doctors.
Paris, Jan. 23, 2023—By Socrates George Kazolias
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are on track (and field) to start in a little over 18 months and they promise to be a ‘Games of Firsts and Superlatives.’ The first ‘first’ was at the closing ceremony in Japan in August 2021, with a limited number of spectators and a year later than originally scheduled, due to Covid.
Given the massive, one sided, propaganda, western audiences are being fed on the Ukraine conflict, I wanted to […]
I’m sorry I have not been writing for a while. After my reunion with some Army buddies in […]
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