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Italian Meddling at French Maidan: When Will Russia Be Accused?
Italian Meddling at French Maidan: When Will Russia Be Accused? Cutting diplomatic relations and sending one’s ambassador back home are acts associated with declaring war, which is what makes France’s decision to pull their ambassador out of Rome very unusual to say the least. The rhetoric from the French side even gives off a sort […]
10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal
10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal Image soiurce here. We live in a world where democracy is a threat and freedom is a punishment, where you can’t tell a turd from a diamond, where 5G is trumpeted even as it threatens to kill us, where the prevailing ethos is buyer-beware and where anyone […]
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 […]
Watch Live: Yellow Vests Rage For 11th Straight Week; Organizers Plan Night Rallies, Human Chain Of 50,000
Watch Live: Yellow Vests Rage For 11th Straight Week; Organizers Plan Night Rallies, Human Chain Of 50,000 France’s Yellow Vests are out again en masse – taking to the streets of Paris and other cities across the country for the 11th straight week of anti-government protests despite rainy conditions. #GiletsJaunes protest: #Toulon – 11th Saturday […]
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 […]
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it’s part and parcel of their […]
‘The gilets jaunes are unstoppable’
‘The gilets jaunes are unstoppable’ The gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of France. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march. Back in 2014, […]
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 […]
The Yellow Vest Movement Has Gone Global
The Yellow Vest Movement Has Gone Global The Yellow Vest anti-government movement started in France on November 17, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel that French President Emmanuel Macron touted as evidence of France’s leadership when it comes to mitigating climate change. The Yellow Vest protests quickly evolved into […]
What happens when the Yellow Vests meet European Debt Crisis II?
What happens when the Yellow Vests meet European Debt Crisis II? There is a lot of talk about which economic bubble will burst first and burst the worst (sounds like a gangsta rap song, no?) The stock market, real estate, luxury goods, corporate debt and government bond bubbles, and other lesser bubbles, all jockey for […]
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go Will France, under Macron – Implosion 2 – become a candidate for exiting the EU thanks to the Yellow Vests? The “Gilets Jaunes” will not let go. Not even – or especially not – after Macron‘s half-hearted, rather cynical and grandstanding concessions – of “too little and […]
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 […]
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore Financial nuclear warheads. The mainstream media has degenerated irreparably. Here’s a reliable rule of thumb: if it’s important it’s not covered; if it’s covered it’s not important. Stories in the American mainstream press about Yellow Vest protests have been few. One aspect of the protests, transcendently important, […]
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 […]
