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The Yellow Vest hospital hoax (1)
May 22, 2019 09:33The popular public movement that has gripped Paris and other cities, continues to grow and make its presence felt despite attempts of the beleaguered government of France to tarnish the image of the peaceful protestors and make them appear as vandals, which they are not.
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Muslims and the working class: France’s marginalized and natural Yellow Vest allies
May 03, 2019 21:21Yellow Vests and Muslims are the two largest groups in France which suffer from socioeconomic marginalization – and there is no doubt that they will be open political allies, eventually.
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The French Yellow Vests movement seen through global lenses
Mar 12, 2019 19:20The Yellow Vests protest movement that has been rocking France since October 2018 is showing no signs it will end any time soon. Initially triggered by the French government's proposal to increase fuel prices, the movement has turned into protests against inequality and globalization, mixed with simmering racial undertones.
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The humbling of Emmanuel Macron
Feb 09, 2019 21:01The EU was a joint project of Euro-intellectuals who wanted a super-socialist State and were afraid Europeans might turn away from "Europe." They sought to create an ersatz Euro-nationalism that has still only caught on among deracinated yuppies and oligarchs, if anyone at all.
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The implications of Macron implosion
Dec 25, 2018 20:31The massive protests of the French people on the streets of Paris and other cities not just in France but across Europe and the US may have several causes but the fact of the matter is that people are already fed-up with the phony slogans of the corrupt western ruling system. Economist and geopolitical analyst, Peter Koenig, has authored a feature on the issue under the heading, The Implications of Macron Implosion.
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The Macron implosion- will it spread to other EU members?
Dec 13, 2018 07:22Over the four weekends, hundreds of thousands were in the streets, middle class people, from students to workers to outright employees and housewives. The police force increases by every new Round – and so do the demonstrators.
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French lessons
Dec 10, 2018 13:32French people are standing up for their rights and speaking out for many others around the world who are sick at the injustice of capitalism. None more so than people of western states who have had to endure decades of economic austerity while a tiny elite become ever more obscenely wealthy.
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High school students and ambulance drivers join ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in France
Dec 07, 2018 19:17With a fourth consecutive Saturday of mass demonstrations against French President Emmanuel Macron’s regressive taxes planned this weekend, tens of thousands of high school students throughout France have staged demonstrations at their school buildings.
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Flawed policies fueling French protests, yellow jackets spill into Belgium
Dec 03, 2018 17:22France, along with other western countries, which had tried to blow out of proportion the isolated incidents of economic protests in Iran as a mass movement against the Islamic Republic, is now facing nationwide demonstrations against the government as Paris is presenting the spectacle of a war zone, threatening to bring down the ruling regime.
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Big powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one
Nov 15, 2018 08:24Over the past weekend, the leaders of the world’s major powers met in France to commemorate the official end of World War I.