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  2023 French riots have nothing to do with the pre-revolutionary ones CARLOS RAMALHETE The Eiffel Tower cannot enlighten the polar opposite of the Enlightenment "Is Paris burning?", Hitler would have asked when his troops fled the French capital. On that particular occasion, it was not; his goons had not followed his orders to set it on fire. Yet, Paris doesn't need German troops to burn. Riots are such a proud French tradition that the famous wide Parisian boulevards, one of the most admired aspects of its urban planning, were created to make it harder for rioters to block them. Most French riots are about things that in historical terms can be called small stuff. The price of bus tickets or a new unpopular law often had riotous consequences. Some riots, still, are symptoms of a deeper societal malaise. Those leading to the French Revolution are probably the most evident, of course. The student riots in May 1968, protesting the rule that forbade male students to enter f

  Greetings from a Brand-New MENA (Middle East/North Africa) Iran-Saudi rapprochement reverberates all the way to Morocco Video link On  this week’s False Flag Weekly News  “J-Mike” Springmann fixed his audio glitch and joined me to comment on the week’s top news stories, which were almost all variations on an overriding theme: The Anglo-Zionist Empire has gone off the cliff and, like Wile E. Coyote, hasn’t yet looked down and realized it’s about to plunge to its demise. The neocons, who took over the empire on 9/11/2001 and have been driving it off the cliff ever since, seem to think they can lie their way out of any self-inflicted predicament. (“We’re an empire now, and we invent our own reality…”) People notice you blew the World Trade Center to kingdom come? Say it was jet fuel. Your bio-attack on China and Iran goes south? First blame batty pangolins, then the W.I.V. Sy Hersh exposes your pipeline terrorism? Start by blaming Putin, then invent some lunatic lie about a couple of lo

What's a "Yemeni"?! According to the report of Eye for Humanity, in the last seven years of the Yemen war, bombings carried out by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 17,734 people and injured close to 30,000. According to its data, at least 4,017 deaths were of children January 04, 2023  by  Peoples Dispatch Photo: Xinhua/Mohammed Mohammed Data released by the Yemen-based Eye for Humanity Centre for Rights and Development  claims that at least 643  Yemeni civilians were killed in 2022, out of over 3,000 casualties recorded. This is despite last year seeing an unprecedented six-month-long ceasefire and a significant drop in fatalities. The war in Yemen will complete eight years in 2023. The data shows that the total fatalities recorded last year included at least 102 children and 27 women. At least 353 children and 97 women were also injured in this period. The Saudi Arabia-led international coalition also destroyed over 14,300 homes, 12 hospitals, 64 schools, and 22 powe