“We need time,” says Etienne Chouard, one of the intellectual “gurus” of the Yellow Vest movement. For years, he has been campaigning in favor of citizens’ right to hold referendums. Now, he sees his ideas finally being embraced by people. The demand to provide people with the possibility of calling Referendums (on adopting or annulling bills or revoking elected representatives) ...
Back to the Future! Elated, with the single-mindedness of the “We” of the many, suddenly aware of its power, the crowd pours out of the narrow street in which it was crammed, to the spacious Place de la Republiquewhile singing the Marseillaise. It is by far the most popular song among Yellow Vests. The second most popular is the WWII ...
“Your heart is too small to hold this many people” lyrics to a song of the Yellow Vests addressed to Macron “I am not a seed of the Luck the moulder of the new life I am a child of the Need and a mature child of the Wrath… …Listen, how the winds take of thousand years the voice! ...
“No Christmas this year” is written on the placard of a protester in Toulouse, the “ville rose” of Southwest France, once a bastion of French socialism. He must be a sadist this guy. He wants to kill Mr Macron’s – and Baron Rothschild’s, his superior’s – last hope that, if no man can be found to help them get rid ...
After years of growing anger against a neoliberal administration of austerity, France has descended into chaos as the workers say in their yellow vests: «we’ve had enough.» Emmanuel Macron and his administration are on their last legs, with the French President hiding in obscurity – scared to even speak to the public. His approval rating ...
On the verge of a revolutionary situation France has not witnessed in 50 years, Emmanuel Macron tried to restore peace by making minor concessions, such as raising the minimum wage (the SMIC), improving taxation on pensions and various other minor measures. The SMIC increase will not be covered by corporations, but by diminishing income from Insurance Funds, thus undermining the ...
The FETO case An investigation of crimes bythe Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) continues. The Turkish authorities received warrants for the arrest of 51 members of the terrorist organization headed by the religious preacher Fethullah Gülen who is currently living in the USA. Last week, a decision was made on the dozens of the people involved in the murder of Russian ...
The protests taking place in cities all over France continued into a third day on Monday with blockades being set up at petrol refineries and strategic points on roads and motorways across the country. The so-called “yellow jackets” are protesting an increase in fuel prices and, more generally, against all of Emmanuel Macron’s recent liberal reforms. Around 409 people have ...
Brexit… a deal at last? Britain and the European Union have finally agreed on a draft agreement on Britain’s departure from the EU this Wednesday. However, now prime minister Theresa May is faced with the most difficult part of the process, achieving approval from parliament. May hopes that the transition period will satisfy both supporters of Brexit and those who ...