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French Firefighters Set Selves Ablaze, Spar With Riot Cops As Yellow Vest Chaos Resumes
French Firefighters Set Selves Ablaze, Spar With Riot Cops As Yellow Vest Chaos Resumes French firefighters have joined the mass anti-government protests raging across the country, with some setting themselves on fire and fighting with riot cops while arguing for a pay raise of 25%. French firefighters scuffle with police during protest over working conditions Tensions en […]
A news chronology of France in 2019: The year of Yellow Vest rebellion
A news chronology of France in 2019: The year of Yellow Vest rebellion Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is […]
Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression
Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized social movement known as the Yellow Vests has just held its second nationwide “Assembly of Assemblies.” Hundreds of autonomous […]
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
Globalism’s Last Disgrace: The Army vs. the Yellow Vests
Globalism’s Last Disgrace: The Army vs. the Yellow Vests There are few people in this world more odious than French President Emmanuel Macron after his behavior this week. I’m sure there are child molesters who are worse. But as a man who is pivotal in the future of hundreds of millions of people, his decision […]
French Military Authorized To Use Deadly Force On Yellow Vests If Lives Threatened
French Military Authorized To Use Deadly Force On Yellow Vests If Lives Threatened French soldiers embedded with Paris police will be allowed to ‘open fire’ if lives are threatened by Yellow Vest rioters this weekend, reports the Daily Mail, citing the military governor of Paris. “They are perfectly capable of appreciating the nature of the threat […]
Spectacular Violence as a Weapon of War Against the Yellow Vests
Spectacular Violence as a Weapon of War Against the Yellow Vests Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Violence is a spectacular weapon deployed by the ruling class to discredit movements from below and justify their repression. It is spectacular in the sense of being a great and powerful political tool for governing the masses, and keeping them in […]
Icebergs and bankers
Icebergs and bankers On Saturday March 16, tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Paris demanding action on climate change. At the same time and not far away, a group of gilets jaunes protestors were demonstrating, sometimes violently, against the economic policies of President Macron—one of which increased the tax on gasoline and diesel […]
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green From Paris, Léa Bouchoucha reports for Consortium News on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance. Some had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday— one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th straight weekend of Yellow […]
France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests
France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests If the black smoke over the Paris skyline and charred cars and buildings along the Champs-Elysees which have become characteristic of France’s increasingly violent Yellow Vest protests over the past months weren’t alarming enough, things look to get much worse as the government prepares to […]
France To Ban Yellow Vest Protests In Neighborhoods With “Ultra” Radicals
France To Ban Yellow Vest Protests In Neighborhoods With “Ultra” Radicals France is cracking down on “yellow vest” protesters following a weekend of renewed violence – as the Macron administration announced on Monday that it would ban demonstration in several areas of france – including the Champs Elysees in Paris, if “ultra elements” are present, […]
Chaos Breaks Out As Yellow Vests Clash With French Police
Chaos Breaks Out As Yellow Vests Clash With French Police Update: Saturday’s Yellow Vest protests have escalated in intensity as clashes with the police grew increasingly violent. Take a look: Ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence? *** After weeks of more moderate protests, France’s Yellow Vests are back in full swing following the end of President […]
Does the establishment understand: there is just no solution for France
Does the establishment understand: there is just no solution for France
France’s Yellow Vests: Proving Police Are Indeed Part of the 1%
France’s Yellow Vests: Proving Police Are Indeed Part of the 1% 8,000+ arrested, 500 major injuries, 2,000+ imprisoned (as of Feb. 14), 1,500+ awaiting trials (Feb. 14), 12 deaths, 20+ blindings, 6 hands lost, 10,000+ rubber bullets fired. Cops never switch sides – they have too much to lose. The demonstration for “Acte 16”, on March […]
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 […]
