in english - Algérie Résistance II

Peter Mertens: “There is a counter-power that exists on the world scale as long as the Palestinian people will resist”

Peter Mertens. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What do you think of the revival of populist and neo-Nazi movements in Europe in general and in Belgium in particular? Peter Mertens: After the crisis of overproduction in 1973 and the financial bubble that erupted...

Sheldon Richman: ”The Trump administration clearly sees Israel and Saudi Arabia as vital parts of an anti-Iran coalition.”

Sheldon Richman. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Israel continues to massacre the Palestinian people with the utmost impunity. Is not Israel a rogue state? Sheldon Richman: That would depend on your definition of “rogue state,” about which I would not expect...

Dr. Frederick B. Mills: “The US seeks to rehabilitate the Monroe Doctrine and thereby Impose the neoliberal regime throughout the region as well as counter growing Chinese and Russian influence.”

Dr. Frederick B. Mils. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Can you explain to our readers what the concept of philosophy of liberation is? Dr. Frederick B. Mills: The philosophy of liberation movement, which has its origins in the late 1960’s in Latin America and...

Prof. Robert Jensen: “There clearly is no decent human future possible in capitalism”

Prof. Robert Jensen. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: How do you explain the silence of Western media and governments regarding the massacre of the people of Yemen by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia, strategic ally of the US? Prof. Robert Jensen: I am not an...

Dr. Abderrahmane Mebtoul: “Algeria still faces significant challenges”

Le Dr. Abderrahmane Mebtoul. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What is today the equilibrium threshold, the price of a barrel that allows Algeria to not draw from its foreign currency reserves, but to reconstitute them? Dr. Abderrahmane Mebtoul: Foreign exchange...

Dr. Christian Parenti: “The US engineered collapse of Iraq has been a disaster”

Dr. Christian Parenti. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your remarkable book The Freedom: Shadows And hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, you are talking about the investigations you have done on the ground in Iraq. Do not you think that the intervention of the...

Ana Gomes: “There is clearly a pro-Morocco lobby here in the European Parliament”

Ms. Ana Gomes. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You sit in the Subcommittee on Security and Defense and in the Special Commission on terrorism in the European Parliament. What do you think of European coordination in the fight against terrorism? Ana Gomes: It...

Dr. Mohammad Marandi: “Mohammad bin Salman has said in public that he wants to take the war into Iran”

Dr. Mohammad Marandi. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What is the immediate impact on the Iranian people of the Trump administration’s exit from the Iran nuclear deal? Dr. Mohammad Marandi: Obviously, it is going to have a short term negative impact. People are...

Dr. François-Bernard Huyghe: “I would not be surprised if Daesh, after the loss of Syria and Iraq, continues to spread in other countries”

Dr. François-Bernard Huyghe. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Are Western governments powerless in the face of terrorism? Dr. François-Bernard Huyghe: We have terrorist attacks in the West since the end of the 19th century. There have been for various reasons,...

Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb: “Israel is part and parcel of the modern colonial history”

Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your book « Faith in the Face of Empire« , you describe the specific suffering of Palestinian Christians. Can you explain us what it means to be a Palestinian Christian under Israeli occupation? Rev. Dr....