THE VOICE OF THE GILETS JAUNES is being heard: “Deputies of France, we inform you of the directives of the people for you to convert them into law (…). Obey the will of the people. Enforce these directives,” write the “yellow vests”. Spokesmen for the delegation are to be received by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and French Minister for the Ecological Transition François de Rugy at 2 pm on Friday.
FRANCE
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ALAN LANTIER—The awareness that Macron is hated will not, however, change the policy of the capitalist ruling elite, save to make it more violent and repressive. Targeting Macron, protesters have launched a struggle against an entire European and international regime that imposes the diktat of the banks and the financial aristocracy on the workers. The only way to fight the austerity demands of European capitalism is to mobilize workers across the continent to expropriate the banks and transfer power to the working class.
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JIMMIE MOGLIA—Today, the same symbiotic relationship of old seems to bind the American Congress with the neo-cons and their own current-day version of Classical Judaism. Which goes some way to explain the fathomless hypocrisy inspiring the present (nominally American) foreign policy. Including ignoring the ongoing murders of Palestinians, waging disastrous wars in the Middle East for the benefit of Israel, declaring unending friendship with the retrograde state of Saudi Arabia, (with Trump literally dancing with the Saudis,) piling beyond-ridiculous accusations and threats against Russia, subjecting to racketeering, via the international payment system, countries that do not pay homage to Israel, and so on.
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Gilet Jaunes confront the police in fierce clashes in Paris
9 minutes readGiles Jaunes confront police in Paris, knock a policeman off his bike, they are threatened by other cops with guns drawn. Situation tense.
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PETER KOENIG—What does that have to do with Macron? Everything, of course. Macron’s Air force helped the crime regime of the Saudis bombing Yemen, a poor but proud people, to bits and pieces; to kill possibly hundreds of thousands – nobody counts – mainly children and women. Macron, siding with the elite – he surely has no reason whatsoever to bomb Yemen – helped the ‘allies’ of crime destroy an entire nation. He, of course, is not alone, but accompanied by the best and the brightest of the western allies, even Germany – which, according to their non-aggression treaty (remnant of the WWII Armistice arrangement) is not allowed to participate in any conflict hostility emanating from her territory except, of course, if the Master of the treaty orders it.