MAX PARRY—As the Macron regime’s rule by decree and police brutality only seemed to fuel the insurrection, the unrest further escalated during the summer after a teenage boy of Algerian descent was killed by gendarmes in a Paris suburb. Although the protests have dissipated in recent months, when France has not been plagued by turmoil at home, its influence abroad has waned after a wave of coups within its former colonies in Africa. Macron’s policies have fallen equally out of favor internally and the ongoing civil disorder has made France appear more of a failed state than any of its former overseas territories.
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Niger sitreps: the situation continues to be fluid as the West’s hold on Africa slips away.
23 minutes readEDITOR—The recent coup in Niger has sent shockwaves throughout West Africa, not to mention Europe and the United States. France was once the colonial power controlling Niger, and still wields tremendous influence over the nation’s economy. But this latest coup threatens all that, especially France’s access to cheap yellowcake to run France’s nuclear power plants.
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The Nigerian Coup Could Be A Game-Changer In The New Cold War
22 minutes readANDREW KORYBKO—The US and France are jointly waging proxy wars against Russia in Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR) since these states function as their respective regions’ multipolar cores. The West fears that Niger and Chad, its last strongholds in West and Central Africa correspondingly, could follow in neighboring Mali’s and the CAR’s footsteps to create a multipolar corridor across a broad swath of the continent.
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SABBY REPORTS: Macron VISITS China While Protesters STORM BlackRock In France (clip)
15 minutes readSabrina Salvati’s priceless coverage of Macron’s trip to China, while at home, France burns. And the French protesters apparently know who their enemy is. When is the mental fog going to lift in America?
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You are under contrôle: French elites privately fear the US and new research explains why
13 minutes readFELIX 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.