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130 arrests made during anti-labor reform protests in Paris
130 arrests made during anti-labor reform protests in Paris Anti-riot police officers arrest a man during clashes within a demonstration of high school students protesting against the government’s planned labour reform, on April 5, 2016 in eastern Paris. © Kenzo Tribouilard / AFP 313 Police have detained 130 people in Paris, as violent demonstrations against labor […]
Dozens Arrested, Tear Gas Deployed As French Labor Reform Protests Turn Violent
Dozens Arrested, Tear Gas Deployed As French Labor Reform Protests Turn Violent In a stark reminder of the entrenched problems facing the French economy, today police used tear gas to disperse thousands of angry activists across the nation, who are protesting new labor reforms. French rail and air traffic suffered serious disruption on Thursday after […]
“It’s All F**ked”: Brazil Descends Into Chaos As Rousseff, Lula Wiretaps Trigger Mass Protests
“It’s All F**ked”: Brazil Descends Into Chaos As Rousseff, Lula Wiretaps Trigger Mass Protests Just yesterday, we said the following about Brazil: It seems as though this country can’t get through a single day without some piece of political news or economic data creating confusion and turmoil. We said that on the way to noting that central […]
Caught On Tape: “Enormous Crowds” Of Unemployed Chinese Miners Take To The Streets, Clash With Riot Police
Caught On Tape: “Enormous Crowds” Of Unemployed Chinese Miners Take To The Streets, Clash With Riot Police In early November, we said that far from the traditional risk factors affecting China’s economy, including the slowing economy, the stock market (and now housing 2.0) bubble, the soaring NPLs, and record debt, the most under-reported risk facing China is […]
Hundreds Of Thousands Stage Massive Street Protests In Brazil, In Loud Call For Rousseff’s Ouster
Hundreds Of Thousands Stage Massive Street Protests In Brazil, In Loud Call For Rousseff’s Ouster Back in August, we said that while there are all kinds of charts one could look at on the way to judging just how bad things have truly gotten in Brazil, the most important graphic of all may indeed be this one, […]
French farmers protest at prices driven down by Russia sanctions
French farmers protest at prices driven down by Russia sanctions © @RTenfrancais / periscope.tv A protest by French farmers has taken place in Paris. Large crowds gathered to decry the low prices of agricultural produce. Prices are being driven down by the sanctions exchange with Russia, which has caused domestic produce to flood the […]
Greece Slides Back Into Recession Amid Riots, Rewewed “Grexit” Calls
Greece Slides Back Into Recession Amid Riots, Rewewed “Grexit” Calls It was just over a year ago that Greece elected Alexis Tsipras and Syriza amid a flurry of anti-austerity sentiment. Things didn’t exactly go as planned. The new PM and his “radical” finance minister Yanis Varoufakis thought they could shake things up in Brussels […]
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds Protests against Monsanto’s Roundup, with its poisonous, weed-killing glyphosate, have spread around the globe. An arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a probable cause of cancer in 2015. California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CA EPA) recently decided to label it as such. Environmental groups and […]
Thousands march to protest state of emergency in France
Thousands march to protest state of emergency in France © Ruptly Thousands of people marched in 70 French cities, including Paris, to demand immediate action to stop France’s ongoing state of emergency and openly voice outrage over government plans to revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals, many of them Muslims, convicted of terrorism. Up […]
Jailing an Anti-Drone Protester
Jailing an Anti-Drone Protester As the U.S. government fights its endless wars around the globe, some Americans are moving beyond despair and confusion to challenge the military machine, people like Mary Anne Grady Flores, who was sentenced to six months in jail for photographing an anti-drone protest, writes Bill Moyers. Mary Anne Grady Flores is in […]
It’s On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian “Hostility”
It’s On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian “Hostility” Earlier today, as Iranian police struggled to disperse protesters gathered outside the Saudi consulate in Mashhad, we said the following about the rapidly deteriorating situation: If crude needed an excuse to rally, then surely this is it as it now appears that in addition to […]
Oil Spike Risk: Iran Police Use Water Cannon On Angry Protesters Near Saudi Consulate
Oil Spike Risk: Iran Police Use Water Cannon On Angry Protesters Near Saudi Consulate Despite official pleas for “calm” following the death of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Iranians are in no mood to stand down. Perhaps the Ayatollah’s calls for “divine vengeance” have incited a riot or perhaps the Shiite world has simply had […]
Protesters Storm, Set Fire To Saudi Embassy In Iran
Protesters Storm, Set Fire To Saudi Embassy In Iran Earlier today, Saudi Arabia announced it had staged its largest mass execution in 25 years. 43 al-Qaeda conspirators were killed along with 4 Shiites accused of shooting policemen in the anti-government protests which broke out during the Arab Spring. Among the Shiites killed: prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr. His death […]
‘Murderers’: Thousands gather in Montenegro capital to protest NATO membership (VIDEO)
‘Murderers’: Thousands gather in Montenegro capital to protest NATO membership (VIDEO) © Ruptly Shortly after Montenegro’s bid to join the North Atlantic Alliance was given the green light, thousands flooded the streets of the capital to protest the upcoming membership and remind people of lives taken during the NATO invasion of 1999. Former Montenegrin President […]
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline TransCanada, the company behind the now-defunct Keystone XL, is proposing another pipeline that would ship Alberta tar sands oil to Canada’s Atlantic coast. But fierce opposition from First Nation communities could derail this controversial project. Sitting in his office on the outskirts of Montreal, Serge Otis […]
