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The last independent French president was Jacques Chirac (1995-2007). He made his citizens proud when it was reported that he privately told George W. Bush, over the telephone, “to go hell”, when asked to join America’s phony “Coalition of the Willing”, to invade and destroy Iraq in 2003. Chirac was patriotic, knowledgeable and a competent manager of his country’s internal and external affairs. He was known to despise the boy chimp occupying the White House, as an incompetent fool and tool.
Thereafter, the American boll weevils, bed bugs and termites infested and still do, the halls of French power, from the Elysée Palace (France’s White House), to France’s CIA (called the DGSE), to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (like America’s Department of State) to the military. France used to have real independent leaders and statesmen, left and right, like De Gaulle, D’Estaing and Mitterand, Most importantly, in spite of special interests and elites pulling at them, they did their best to put their country and their people first. They were patriots. That all changed, after Chirac’s presidency. France’s one proud tradition of political self-determination is now a mirage, to coin a great French word.
President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) was America’s first confirmed French whore. His father’s side of the family was in bed with the CIA http://www.voltairenet.org/article157821.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_history_of_Nicolas_Sarkozy. The fruit didn’t fall far from the tree. In 2011, after rejoining NATO, instead of saying, “go to hell”, Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron obediently took Hillary Clinton’s orders and bombed wealthy, anti-West, socialist Libya into rubble. With a rifle barrel, their proxy agents anally sodomized the people’s popular leader, Muhammar Kaddafi, then brutally murdered him, all graphically filmed for imperial audiences to chortle about, over bowls of popcorn: “We came, we saw, he died”, gleefully bragged Ms. Clinton, and “Sarko” was right there with her http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35222-exposing-the-libyan-agenda-a-closer-look-at-hillary-s-emails. Sarkozy was and is a shallow, vain JFK wannabe. His presidential team was made up almost exclusively of CIA/US Department of State traitors, carefully cultivated for years, via the French-American Foundation (FAF). His five year record as president sadly mirrors the start of France’s subservience.
François Hollande was the next president (2012-2017), a supposed socialist, whose executive was another team full of FAF turncoats. France’s downward spiral continued further into groveling humiliation. Hollande put France firmly on its knees, in the fellatio position, to satisfy Uncle Sam’s every demand, and never once got up. Thus, he will leave the Elysée and become rich, very rich, while his ignominious presidency will go down in French history as one of the most traitorous and craven on record.
France’s owners are now America’s owners and they have assiduously groomed their next Manchurian president, Emmanuel Macron. He is Western propaganda’s perfect neoliberal puppet, who will gladly take Hollande’s kneeling position and never come up for air. Uncle Sam, with his deep state, oil banks, transnational corporations, NATO and the EU, is gloating over his continental concubine, Marianne. She is the allegorical symbol of France, who used to proudly represent the Goddess of Liberty, as well as reason. With her neck firmly under the crushing throttle of Washington, she is now a disgraced, 21st century Yankee prostitute.
As a proud citizen of France, with its history changing revolutions, Universal Rights of Man, great philosophers and Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, these are very, very dark days for host Jeff J. Brown. One could say that what is happening in France is the canary in the Western coal mine. The canary is comatose and near death.
Ms. Diana Johnstone, based in Paris for years, really knows how to capture France’s sociopolitical zeitgeist. She recently wrote two terrific articles about this year’s French presidential elections, which have tremendous geopolitical consequences:
Jeff was so impressed that he wanted to share Ms. Johnstone’s sage understanding of French-, as well as European- and American politics, with his fans across the globe. She joins him today on China Rising Radio Sinoland, in a very revealing and informative interview.
Diana is a political analyst and author who writes for Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/author/diana-johnstone/ and Global Research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/diana-johnstone.
Her books include Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions and Queen of Chaos: the Misadventures of Hillary Clinton. She is also involved in the publication of her father’s book, From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning, by Paul H. Johnstone. She can be reached at diana.johnstone@wanadoo.fr.
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