In an interview with the newspaper "El Watan weekend," the Swiss world-renowned writer and board member of Human Rights of the United Nations, returned to the daring of Algeria in making economic decisions "to escape the stranglehold of the multinationals," the inequality between the South and North, as well as the crisis in the Sahel. " Algeria is virtually the only African country that controls foreign investment with the 51/49 rule contained in its code
"(...)" It is
the West's interest to weaken Algeria
""(...)" It is
the West's interest to weaken Algeria
- In your opinion, Algeria has escaped the stranglehold of global capitalism. How? 
I am constantly struck by the principles contained in Algeria in the platform of the Soumam 1956. These same principles are reflected in the Algerian foreign policy: universality, solidarity state, social justice, sovereignty, etc.. Algeria is the main power in North Africa. Make a plan of 240 billion euros over four years is a sign. This power is put at the service of sovereignty. Algeria is virtually the only African country that controls foreign investment with the 51/49 rule contained in its code. There are also strict controls on the transfer of profits. Algeria has found a way to negotiate with multinationals, with the masters of the world and master them. These firms seek only to maximize profits. Nestle is not the Red Cross! I live in the heart of the monster in Geneva in the middle of these companies and I know what I mean. In Nigeria, Esso and Texaco dictate their laws. The Algeria is the eleventh largest oil producer in OPEC member. Nigeria produces more. Take these two examples. Nigeria, most populous country in Africa and out 2.2 million barrels of oil per day, is under the command of multinational corporations.
In Algeria, Sonatrach dictates its law to foreign oil firms to work. So there is a notion of complete sovereignty. The Council on Human Rights UN, Algeria plays an important role in chairing the Afro-Arab. The Algerian diplomats set the tone in this group defending the interests of developing countries. Bouteflika, who was Minister foreign, is one of the statesmen of the third world has a perfect knowledge of the complicated mechanisms of the UN system. Djazaïri Driss, Mohamed Salah Dembri and Lakhdar Ibrahimi diplomats are known I am constantly struck by the principles contained in Algeria in the platform of the Soumam 1956. These same principles are reflected in the Algerian foreign policy: universality, solidarity state, social justice, sovereignty, etc.. Algeria is the main power in North Africa. Make a plan of 240 billion euros over four years is a sign. This power is put at the service of sovereignty. Algeria is virtually the only African country that controls foreign investment with the 51/49 rule contained in its code. There are also strict controls on the transfer of profits. Algeria has found a way to negotiate with multinationals, with the masters of the world and master them. These firms seek only to maximize profits. Nestle is not the Red Cross! I live in the heart of the monster in Geneva in the middle of these companies and I know what I mean. In Nigeria, Esso and Texaco dictate their laws. The Algeria is the eleventh largest oil producer in OPEC member. Nigeria produces more. Take these two examples. Nigeria, most populous country in Africa and out 2.2 million barrels of oil per day, is under the command of multinational corporations. - Return on investment measures, European countries such as France and Germany, have criticized these provisions ... The multinationals want to have free rein. They did not in Algeria. The current French ruling class has never forgiven the independence of Algeria. You do not realize yet the trauma caused to Europeans. There was the defeat at Dien Bien Phu, but Vietnam is far from their world. The Maghreb is in the same world, and that's where the Europeans have been radically challenged. The victory of Algeria has opened the way for decolonization in Africa.
- instability in the Sahel helpful Does not the ancient empires to wake up?
- instability in the Sahel helpful Does not the ancient empires to wake up?
The situation in the Sahel is dangerous. Algeria is effectively independent and lead by example. Algeria does not form part of the Francophonie. Sovereign therefore, that country must be sabotaged. I do not know who funded Al Qaeda and behind it. But it seems obvious that it is the West's interest to weaken Algeria. Al Qaeda is at the heart of the Sahel. Who knows, tomorrow they will attack the oil fields of Hassi Messaoud ...
- These groups are manipulated?
I think yes. Sociologically, there is a depletion of soil with the Touareg, black racism against the Touareg, etc.. Governments have not kept their promises, misery is still there. These groups are financed by the ransoms paid against the release of hostages. Europeans negotiate and pay. For Algeria, it creates problems because these groups have more opportunities to arm. If you pay 5 million for the hostages, as did the English, it becomes a business fueled by Europeans (...) Switzerland refuses to extradite Islamist wanted by international mandate because it does not cause those who have deposited funds in banks.
The Swiss economy depends heavily on banks. Switzerland is the second richest country in the world with per capita income. This country, which has no raw material lives of other people's money (...) I not able to confirm that the West funding terrorist groups, but I can say that some Western powers will not be unhappy to weaken Algeria. Algeria, in all countries of the South, is a thorn, a country that can not kneel. It is "bad" example for others. Imagine that tomorrow the Niger resume the uranium deposits in the French nuclear group Areva and creates a Nigerian Sonatrach. This will cause an explosion in France in electricity prices, because at the moment, France pays nothing. President Tandja, who wanted to increase Chinese investment and Indian, was rejected.
- The North African kingdom as an economic entity is not it a threat to the European Union (EU)?
No. The EU comprises 27 countries, 400 million consumers and 11 000 billion gross domestic product (GDP). The EU is an economic powerhouse that has skillfully combined the Maghreb countries with agreements and created an expanded market. With the problem of Western Sahara, the Maghreb united, a wonderful idea, is not possible. Libya and Egypt are also a problem. As for the EU, countries must create a minimum common political goals and have common economic structures ...
- In Algeria, there is a corruption case linked to Sonatrach. Why corruption is very present in the oil countries?
Why Algerians are angels!? In Geneva, there is an incredible corruption, yet it is a democracy. These real estate speculation and false invoices. Wherever there is money, there are many temptations. Swiss bankers are mostly offshore banks in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes
-experts speak of "curse of oil. " Nigeria is a perfect example ... I put
Algeria apart. It must be said that there is no development in that country. There are housing and infrastructure that are under construction. Certainly there are social problems, but there is a public investment, not speculative private, which is impressive. I have not come to Algeria for eight years and I see there is a remarkable infrastructure development. In Nigeria, successive military dictatorships. In the Human Development Index of UNDP, Nigeria is at the bottom of the table, while this is the eighth largest producer of oil. It is perhaps strengthen control over public spending, but I was told that President Bouteflika auditioned annually to ministers on projects. It does not exist in Nigeria or Sudan. Algerians to whether such methods are effective or not.
- The absence of democracy and freedoms he helps not maintaining the systems as in Nigeria?
Apart from Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria and Ethiopia, the majority of the 53 countries in Africa live on poverty economically distressed and low-headed elites. In these countries, nation building during the last 50 years has been inadequate. According to FAO, 81 million Africans were undernourished in 1975. In 2005, there were 202 million Africans to be in this situation. Hunger in Africa explodes. The hypocrisy of the Europeans is total. They are dumping farm in Africa. The surpluses are dumped on the markets of Niamey, Bamako, Dakar and elsewhere, and further, the African farmer is exhausted at work and has no chance of having a regular income because at the market, the housewife can buy vegetables or chicken English, Greek or French half price of local products. The WTO works by corporate interests. The WTO is an organization of economic disarmament of Third World countries. This prevents dumping agricultural countries in Africa, who constitute two thirds of the continent to gain a living wage, which then allows the development of democracy. Brecht said: "The hungry can not eat a ballot." On the other hand, Westerners complain about the lack of democracy and violations of human rights in black Africa, while no of democracy is the result of economic exploitation practiced by the West itself. ..
- What lessons can we learn from the latest financial crisis?
October 22, 2008, 15 heads of state of countries in the euro zone met in Paris and decided to release 1.7 trillion euros in interbank lending and re-mobilize to increase 3 to 5% floor self-financing banks. It's a huge sum to save the bandits used to finance! Criminals who have committed speculation increasingly risky to increase their bonuses. This crime was so honored by governments. In Switzerland, UBS became so powerful that it was impossible for the government to let it go bankrupt.
The taxpayer has paid for these rescue operations. And it continues as before. Today, they continue to speculate with taxpayer money. In Europe and the United States, governments have been unable to expropriate the banks and abolish the bonuses. We await the next crisis! The World Food Programme (WFP) has lost half of its budget because industrial countries have stopped their contributions to give money to the bankers. School meals have been removed several countries through the WFP. In Bangladesh, a disaster.
speculators on Wall Street are murderers. They are killing people in the Third World. "When the rich lose weight, the poor die," said a French writer. According to the World Bank, 162 million people worldwide have added to those who suffer from hunger because of the global financial crisis. We need to create a tribunal at Nuremberg (crime against humanity, ie) for bank robbers.
- Is there a link between this financial crisis and the proliferation of conflicts now?
America is the leading economic power. Almost 25% of industrial goods manufactured in the world are the work of Americans, then they are only 300 million. The raw material of this great industrial machine is oil. It uses 20 million barrels of oil per day, while world production is 85 million barrels per day. Eight of the 20 million barrels are produced between Alaska and Texas, the rest is imported from dangerous areas, such as the Niger Delta, Central Asia, the Middle East. This forces the Americans to maintain the most gigantic armada the world has ever known. Donald Rumesfeld (former Secretary of Defense, ed) said that the U.S. must be capable of carrying four wars simultaneously.
The U.S. supports Israel to control the Arab world and Iran. If Saudi Arabia, the main supplier of U.S. oil, changed its strategy, it will be targeted by Israel. The Iraq war is a war for oil. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world with 13 billion barrels with a low sulfur content. The pipe lines between the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean passing through Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan also has a direct economic incentive. Marx said that "capitalism carries the war, as the cloud carries a storm." There is a compelling logic, if you depend on foreign oil, you should ensure and control the sources of supply.
- Do you have any writing projects?
All I am talking about the subject of a book I wrote, France identity, for which I seek a publisher. For the first time in 25 years of publication, I find it hard to publish such a book about the rise of Islamophobia in France. I do not know why. It seems that this is the crisis ...
Friday, November 5, 2010 4:48 p.m.
- These groups are manipulated?
I think yes. Sociologically, there is a depletion of soil with the Touareg, black racism against the Touareg, etc.. Governments have not kept their promises, misery is still there. These groups are financed by the ransoms paid against the release of hostages. Europeans negotiate and pay. For Algeria, it creates problems because these groups have more opportunities to arm. If you pay 5 million for the hostages, as did the English, it becomes a business fueled by Europeans (...) Switzerland refuses to extradite Islamist wanted by international mandate because it does not cause those who have deposited funds in banks.
The Swiss economy depends heavily on banks. Switzerland is the second richest country in the world with per capita income. This country, which has no raw material lives of other people's money (...) I not able to confirm that the West funding terrorist groups, but I can say that some Western powers will not be unhappy to weaken Algeria. Algeria, in all countries of the South, is a thorn, a country that can not kneel. It is "bad" example for others. Imagine that tomorrow the Niger resume the uranium deposits in the French nuclear group Areva and creates a Nigerian Sonatrach. This will cause an explosion in France in electricity prices, because at the moment, France pays nothing. President Tandja, who wanted to increase Chinese investment and Indian, was rejected.
- The North African kingdom as an economic entity is not it a threat to the European Union (EU)?
No. The EU comprises 27 countries, 400 million consumers and 11 000 billion gross domestic product (GDP). The EU is an economic powerhouse that has skillfully combined the Maghreb countries with agreements and created an expanded market. With the problem of Western Sahara, the Maghreb united, a wonderful idea, is not possible. Libya and Egypt are also a problem. As for the EU, countries must create a minimum common political goals and have common economic structures ...
- In Algeria, there is a corruption case linked to Sonatrach. Why corruption is very present in the oil countries?
Why Algerians are angels!? In Geneva, there is an incredible corruption, yet it is a democracy. These real estate speculation and false invoices. Wherever there is money, there are many temptations. Swiss bankers are mostly offshore banks in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes
-experts speak of "curse of oil. " Nigeria is a perfect example ... I put
Algeria apart. It must be said that there is no development in that country. There are housing and infrastructure that are under construction. Certainly there are social problems, but there is a public investment, not speculative private, which is impressive. I have not come to Algeria for eight years and I see there is a remarkable infrastructure development. In Nigeria, successive military dictatorships. In the Human Development Index of UNDP, Nigeria is at the bottom of the table, while this is the eighth largest producer of oil. It is perhaps strengthen control over public spending, but I was told that President Bouteflika auditioned annually to ministers on projects. It does not exist in Nigeria or Sudan. Algerians to whether such methods are effective or not.
- The absence of democracy and freedoms he helps not maintaining the systems as in Nigeria?
Apart from Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria and Ethiopia, the majority of the 53 countries in Africa live on poverty economically distressed and low-headed elites. In these countries, nation building during the last 50 years has been inadequate. According to FAO, 81 million Africans were undernourished in 1975. In 2005, there were 202 million Africans to be in this situation. Hunger in Africa explodes. The hypocrisy of the Europeans is total. They are dumping farm in Africa. The surpluses are dumped on the markets of Niamey, Bamako, Dakar and elsewhere, and further, the African farmer is exhausted at work and has no chance of having a regular income because at the market, the housewife can buy vegetables or chicken English, Greek or French half price of local products. The WTO works by corporate interests. The WTO is an organization of economic disarmament of Third World countries. This prevents dumping agricultural countries in Africa, who constitute two thirds of the continent to gain a living wage, which then allows the development of democracy. Brecht said: "The hungry can not eat a ballot." On the other hand, Westerners complain about the lack of democracy and violations of human rights in black Africa, while no of democracy is the result of economic exploitation practiced by the West itself. ..
- What lessons can we learn from the latest financial crisis?
October 22, 2008, 15 heads of state of countries in the euro zone met in Paris and decided to release 1.7 trillion euros in interbank lending and re-mobilize to increase 3 to 5% floor self-financing banks. It's a huge sum to save the bandits used to finance! Criminals who have committed speculation increasingly risky to increase their bonuses. This crime was so honored by governments. In Switzerland, UBS became so powerful that it was impossible for the government to let it go bankrupt.
The taxpayer has paid for these rescue operations. And it continues as before. Today, they continue to speculate with taxpayer money. In Europe and the United States, governments have been unable to expropriate the banks and abolish the bonuses. We await the next crisis! The World Food Programme (WFP) has lost half of its budget because industrial countries have stopped their contributions to give money to the bankers. School meals have been removed several countries through the WFP. In Bangladesh, a disaster.
speculators on Wall Street are murderers. They are killing people in the Third World. "When the rich lose weight, the poor die," said a French writer. According to the World Bank, 162 million people worldwide have added to those who suffer from hunger because of the global financial crisis. We need to create a tribunal at Nuremberg (crime against humanity, ie) for bank robbers.
- Is there a link between this financial crisis and the proliferation of conflicts now?
America is the leading economic power. Almost 25% of industrial goods manufactured in the world are the work of Americans, then they are only 300 million. The raw material of this great industrial machine is oil. It uses 20 million barrels of oil per day, while world production is 85 million barrels per day. Eight of the 20 million barrels are produced between Alaska and Texas, the rest is imported from dangerous areas, such as the Niger Delta, Central Asia, the Middle East. This forces the Americans to maintain the most gigantic armada the world has ever known. Donald Rumesfeld (former Secretary of Defense, ed) said that the U.S. must be capable of carrying four wars simultaneously.
The U.S. supports Israel to control the Arab world and Iran. If Saudi Arabia, the main supplier of U.S. oil, changed its strategy, it will be targeted by Israel. The Iraq war is a war for oil. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world with 13 billion barrels with a low sulfur content. The pipe lines between the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean passing through Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan also has a direct economic incentive. Marx said that "capitalism carries the war, as the cloud carries a storm." There is a compelling logic, if you depend on foreign oil, you should ensure and control the sources of supply.
- Do you have any writing projects?
All I am talking about the subject of a book I wrote, France identity, for which I seek a publisher. For the first time in 25 years of publication, I find it hard to publish such a book about the rise of Islamophobia in France. I do not know why. It seems that this is the crisis ...
Friday, November 5, 2010 4:48 p.m.
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