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Wheelchair-Bound Yellow-Vest Pepper-Sprayed By French Cops; Another Man Shot In Face
Wheelchair-Bound Yellow-Vest Pepper-Sprayed By French Cops; Another Man Shot In Face As the Yellow Vest protests rage across France for the 16th straight week, shocking footage has emerged of police brutality. Apparently a Friday call for calm by President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t apply to police. In one clip, a French policeman appears to blast a wheelchair-bound man in the face […]
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA? The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow […]
Unrest in France: No End in Sight
Unrest in France: No End in Sight The third group is extremely large: it is the rest of the population. The upper class treat them as regrettable dead weight and expect nothing from them except silence and submission. Its members often have a hard time making ends meet. They pay taxes but can see that […]
Three Reasons Macron is a Hypocrite when it Comes to Venezuela
Three Reasons Macron is a Hypocrite when it Comes to Venezuela Paris (GPA) – Emmanuel Macron recently voiced support for opposition in Venezuela even as his own country is ground to a halt every weekend by protests. There is an overused saying that “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” While these few words may be cliche there […]
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism Far from dying down after the holidays, France’s yellow vest movement is continuing to blaze throughout the country. Every Saturday for eleven weeks, protesters have been disrupting or blocking roads, traffic circles and freeway toll plazas, gathering in the squares of villages, taking to […]
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests A State of Emergency That Does Not Say His Name According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced […]
Outright revolution in France: Macron has to go (Update 16:30 More and more people join the movement. )
Outright revolution in France: Macron has to go (Update 16:30 More and more people join the movement. ) All over French are protest again. Our impression is that the movement is growing until Macron resigns. Paris …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites The Paris elites and their enablers may find that the next general strike won’t immobilize Paris, it will strangle Paris from the periphery. Eleven months ago, I posited in The Ghosts of 1968 (2/14/18) that the idealistic hope that mass demonstrations could trigger real reform […]
Are France And Germany About To Form An EU Superstate?
Are France And Germany About To Form An EU Superstate? Inching ever closer towards an EUSSR. As the fire rages on, the citizenry floods the streets, and political turmoil reigns supreme in Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are telling everyone to please disperse because everything is fine and there’s nothing […]
Fake News? How About No News?
Fake News? How About No News? Trump gets flak for characterizing the mainstream press as purveyors of Fake News. But what about no news at all? Isn’t lack of coverage even worse than biased coverage? Well, how much news have you heard or read about the gilets jaunes – or “yellow vest” – protests in […]
Political Nightmares Multiply for Europe Ahead of Davos
Political Nightmares Multiply for Europe Ahead of Davos Europe’s dreams of integration are slipping away as the people wake up from the nightmare erected for them. As we approach Act IX of the Yellow Vest protests in France and the threats of creating bank runs we get the news that both Presidents Trump and Macron […]
Macron – No taxation without representation
Macron – No taxation without representation The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown […]
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron The Yellow Vest Movement in France is turning to an all-out war against Macron. Many are now advocating withdrawing their money from backs in order to topple Macron. Yellow Vest activists ‘Gilets Jaunes’, are now supported by up to 70% of the population. […]
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown The Yellow Vests have reached critical mass. And the movement has now created the perfect storm for President Emmanuel Macron. He can no longer ignore it, even though he tried to do so. And his lack of understanding of the situation as well as his open […]
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 […]
