Xinhua | Chirac passe à l'ATTAC!

"French President Jacques Chirac is to make some concrete proposals at the annual World Economic Forumof political and economic leaders at the Swiss resort of Davos on Wednesday, his office said Tuesday.
Chirac has not unveiled the proposals, but they would probably be among what were raised by a group of experts in September, notably an international tax over greenhouse gas, financial transactions, passages in straits, air tickets or purchase via credit cart.
The objective of the tax is to gather 50 billion dollars per year to ease by half the world's poverty from now to 2015, as the United Nations promised in 2000. "

This was the lead story on the French radio station France Inter this morning -- Chirac is making an ambitious announcement at Davos.

Chirac is joining the altermondialistes in proposing different global taxes, including, it seems, the Tobin Tax.

Unsurprisingly, this news received no attention in the Western press.