Says a French policeman: “Most of us back the Gilets Jaunes [Yellow Vests], because we will be directly affected by any rise in fuel prices,”Alexandre Langlois, the secretary-general of the VIGI police union, told RT France from their studio in Paris. “Most of us can’t live where we work, because it is either too expensive, or we would be arresting our next-door neighbors, so we drive significant distances.”
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EU finally stands up to US ‘bullying’ over Iran sanctions
9 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—The game reveals its complexity when we consider that Iran has been the catalyst for the EU to finally stand up to the US – and potentially get closer to Russia and China. What we see emerging is the contours of a possible cross-Eurasia alliance, in multiple fronts, between Russia-China-Iran – the three key nodes of Eurasia integration – and the EU-3. It’s a game worthy of a Persian chess master: involving energy wars, the balance of power in Southwest Asia, the absolute power of the US-controlled global financial system and the status of the US dollar – bolstered by the petrodollar – as the global reserve currency.
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S. KARGANOVIC—Moldova is now reaping the bitter harvest of its partnership with the EU, in which it was embroiled by its crooked leaders. Democracy has turned into a pipe dream and the institutions of government are in a state of collapse. Statistics award Moldova the unenvied status of Europe’s poorest country and its citizens are predictably fleeing abroad en masse. Reforms are stagnating. However, European partners began expressing concern over these minor details only when their new man, Andrei Nastase, was blocked from becoming Kishinev’s new mayor after the Plahotniuk-controlled Supreme Court invalidated his by all accounts fair and square electoral victory.
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The Trump-Juncker agreement: A manoeuvre in the global trade war
13 minutes readThe craven subservience of the European Union to Washington’s diktats is a disgrace that opens the road to far greater threats to world peace.
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ANDRE VLTCHEK—The entire U.S. liberal establishment is in disarray. It is totally Euro-centric. It seems to be more pro-European than Europe itself. It actually is Europe. Could the United States under Donald Trump become cosmopolitan? I am not sure. We will soon find out.