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Confronting extinction
Confronting extinction Photo by Julia Hawkins (Flickr) With high-profile direct actions across London, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement has captured media headlines, garnered influential supporters, and inspired a wave of participants across the globe. From blocking bridges to occupying government departments, XR has sounded alarm bells at the extinction before us, demanding a more radical […]
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US?
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US? A truth about movements is, they move. They morph, evolve and move around a country or even around the globe. This occurs over months and often over years. The US Occupy encampment era occurred ten months after the Arab Spring and six months after the Spanish […]
How Tre Arrow Became America’s Most Wanted Environmental “Terrorist”
How Tre Arrow Became America’s Most Wanted Environmental “Terrorist” Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The following is an excerpt from the new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. That Tre Arrow, a tree-hugging vegan who espouses non-violence and lives by the airy and some nebulous philosophy of […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
France Moves To Ban All Protests As PM Announces Major Crackdown On Yellow Vests
France Moves To Ban All Protests As PM Announces Major Crackdown On Yellow Vests France is signaling it’s making preparations for a massive new crackdown on the gilets jaunes or “yellow vests” anti-government protests that have gripped the country for seven weeks. A new law under consideration could make any demonstration illegal to begin with if not previously approved by […]
France in Free Fall
France in Free Fall French officials evidently understand that the terrorists are engaged in a long war and that it will be difficult to stop them; so they seem to have given in. These officials are no doubt aware that young French Muslims are being radicalized in increasing numbers. The response, however, has been to […]
Macron Arrests “Yellow Vest” Organizer In Escalation Which Will Surely Calm Things Down
Macron Arrests “Yellow Vest” Organizer In Escalation Which Will Surely Calm Things Down French authorities have arrested a key organizer of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement for leading an unauthorized demonstration, signaling a crackdown on the anti-government demonstrators after nearly two months of violence-filled protests. Eric Drouet, a truck driver from the suburbs of […]
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019 Much about 2019 is uncertain. But a few things are pretty much guaranteed, including the following: Government debt will rise at an accelerating rate Like a life-long dieter who finally gives up and decides to eat himself to death, the US is now committed to trillion-dollar deficits […]
Yellow Vests, Modern Junk Politics and Robespierre
Yellow Vests, Modern Junk Politics and Robespierre During the recent holidays, I had the opportunity to listen to my French friends extol the virtues of the yellow vests (gilets jaunes) movement. “We have had enough of the elitist rule that has left most of the French working class economically desperate,” Pierre said. “People have gone […]
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement The Yellow Vest Movement that began in France, is spreading. It appeared also in Belgium and it spread to Canada as well. The French arrested the leaders of the Yellow Vest Movement calling them an anti-government charging them for organizing an unauthorized protest, as authorities adopt a tougher approach to try to curb […]
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S.
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S. “”The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.” — C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins In less than two months, the yellow vests (“gilets jaunes”) movement in France has reshaped the political landscape in Europe. For a seventh straight week, […]
The Infiltrator
THE INFILTRATOR How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond. JESSE HORNE STILL struggles to talk about the day he was kicked out of […]
A European Spring
A European Spring Europeans are in revolt against the political and moral order and it’s wonderful. The emptiest, dumbest platitude of our time, uttered both by establishment stiffs like the Archbishop of Canterbury and by self-styled radical leftists, is that the 1930s have made a comeback. Treating that dark decade as if it were a […]
The New French Revolution?
The New French Revolution? France is now preparing to use chemical weapons against its own citizens around Paris to counter-attack the Yellow Vest rioters as their anti-Macron protests continue after 5 weeks. This chemical is a debilitating powder that can be spread over an entire area of the size of six football fields in ten seconds. So far, […]
The Riots in France Are NOT Just About Taxes
The Riots in France Are NOT Just About Taxes The recent protests in France seem to have caught everyone by surprise, particularly the French government. Macron’s government seems to have underestimated the demonstrations and the determination of the protesters. The Western media seems confounded in their attempts to understand or explain them and the rest of […]
