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Rachel Marsden

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Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France.

France’s teachers can’t do their job for fear of upsetting Muslim students

Nudity in a classic painting has triggered accusations of Islamophobia in a suburban Paris school. A teacher in suburban Paris is being accused of Islamophobia...

The French are desperate for a new Napoleon. Will they get one?

The conqueror and emperor consistently emerges as the most popular historic personality in France. Say what you want about Napoleon Bonaparte, but there’s no denying...

Grieving for peaceful Palestinians or Israelis shouldn’t make you absolve terrorism or war crimes

The tragic war unfolding in the Middle East desperately needs compassion, not calls for more death and destruction. Can we denounce Hamas’ attacks without being...

Define ‘Nazi’: Western media muddies history to cover up Canada’s SS scandal

“Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi,” Politico says. Maybe. But Yaroslav Hunka definitely was one. Historical revisionists are now trying to...

Most ‘experts’ pushing for endless conflict in Ukraine share a common benefactor

A whopping 85% of media quotes on US military involvement come from someone paid by the defense industry. Experts with important-sounding titles linked to academic-sounding...

Victoria Nuland, Washington’s ‘regime change Karen’, wants to speak to the manager in Niger

Famous for her puppeteering during the 2014 Ukraine coup, the thinking behind this choice of envoy couldn’t be clearer. France has been kicked out of...

France loses its uranium meal ticket in Niger

Paris has vowed to protect its interests in the country, which cut off supplies of the critical material after a coup. French President Emmanuel Macron...

Western media suddenly hates Twitter’s ‘government-funded’ labels

Establishment outlets were perfectly fine with the social media scarlet letter when it was handed to their “undesirable” counterparts. Recently, some media outlets have quit...

Macron has angered US lawmakers, but what lurks behind his China epiphany?

The French president has made bold statements about Western Europe asserting its independence from Washington’s belligerent foreign policy. En route back from his recent China...

The Taliban did in one year what Washington couldn’t in 20, sparking new panic

The ban on Afghan poppy cultivation is set to hit Europe’s heroin supplies. It’s been nearly a year since the Taliban banned Afghan poppy farming...

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