FELIX LIVSHITZ—“It goes without saying that everything has its price. The compensation for this aid from across the Atlantic was to make us enter into a state of global dependence – monetary, financial, technological – with regard to the US,” Harbulot says. And aside from 1958 – 1965 when General Charles de Gaulle attempted to increase the autonomy of Paris from Washington and NATO, French leaders have “fallen into line.” This acceptance means aside from rare public scandals such as the sale of French assets to US companies, or Australia canceling its purchase of French-made submarines in favor of a controversial deal with the US and UK (AUKUS), there is little recognition – let alone discussion – in the mainstream as to how Washington exerts a significant degree of control over France’s economy, and therefore politics.
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JIMMY DORE SHOW—Here in the United States we may treat Big Pharma with kid gloves, delivering only slaps on the wrist for even the industry’s most egregious crimes against humanity, but that’s not the case in Europe. Recently some members of the European Parliament have raised serious questions about the COVID vaccines – specifically the information provided about vaccines’ effectiveness and side effects, and it appears these European political figures are serious about challenging the corruption that rots to the very core of the pharmaceutical industry.
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EU members countries, from Czechia to France and Germany, are watching their populations explode in anger as a result of sharp rises in the cost of living, the inability to secure stable supplies of energy, and the irrational warmongering and criminal NATO/EU sanctions imposed on Russia. The demonstrators are finally getting fed up with the EU’s corrupt and arrogantly inept leadership, and its own irrational decision to not accept Russian gas. The prospect of an endless war, sold on lies, which could now easily degenerate into a nuclear confrontation, and a harsh winter with no heating fuel, plus inflation and a poor job outlok, are all adding to the pent-up anger that many experience now in the working class all over Europe.
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Editor’s Note: We are lucky to have French-American Jeff J. Brown, an expert on China, the Mideast, France, and other cultures, as one of our editorial pillars. (Jeff is of course the editor-in-chief of the unique China Rising blog, a sister entity to TGP). His expertise on China, indispensable for any American or Westerner, spanning already three major books, is detailed below. In this episode, Jeff joins Ania K., to chat about the rapidly deteriorating situation in France and the EU/NATO blocs, in general, as self-serving, US-pushed neoliberal imperial policies seem to be finally harvesting the same reaction across the continent in hitherto contained populations: anger, frustration and an almost universal desire for regime change that still lacks a fitting political channel.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—Pro-capitalist American media may be persuaded by the German accusation of profligate smaller countries, but most of Europe saw the democratic will of nation after nation get strangled until their national politicians surrendered. Around the continent (and the UK) many realised that the EU and Eurozone was sucking the lifeblood of White locals the way White colonialists used to suck the lifeblood of Brown locals.
