Protests broke out in France last week to call on higher wages to help workers to make ends meet amid high inflation, and lashed out at President Emmanuel Macron’s move to raise the retirement age in the country.
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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MASSIVE PROTESTS IN PRAGUE: THE WORST IS YET TO COME
Tens of thousands of people again took to the streets in the Czech Republic’s capital Prague last week to voice outrage over the country’s energy crisis due to sanctions against Russia in what could be an early indicator of what other capitals may face as winter takes hold.
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UKRAINE: ZELENSKY TRIES TO JOIN NATO AGAIN AND MAKE WWIII OFFICIAL
President Joe Biden said in a statement. “Russia is violating international law, trampling on the United Nations Charter, and showing its contempt for peaceful nations everywhere.” Putin announced the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. “This is the will of millions of people,” Putin said. He took a shot at the “enemy” West, and...
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‘PREPOSTEROUS’ TO THINK U.S. WOULD BE BEHIND NORD STREAM SABOTAGE: NED PRICE
Ned Price, the State Department spokesman, brushed off the Russian “disinformation” blaming the U.S. of sabotaging the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, warned that the sabotage “would be met with a united and determined response.” Price, who has worked as a senior analyst...
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TRUSS COMES OUT OF ‘HIDING,’ SAYS, ‘PUTIN MUST FAIL’ IN UKRAINE
Liz Truss, the British prime minister, took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce that she spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone to promise “steadfast” support and refusal to never recognize Russia’s “sham referendums.” “I thanked him for helping secure the release of 5 British nationals & discussed ways to protect [Ukrainian] gas...
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NATO WILL NOT INTERVENE IF RUSSIA USES NUKES: MEDVEDEV
Medvedev has been an outspoken critic of Western intervention in Ukraine
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IRAN: PROTESTS ESCALATE
Iran has been rocked by deadly protests after the death of Mahsa Amini three days after she was arrested by the morality police earlier this month. The “crime” the 22-year-old woman allegedly committed was that she was not properly wearing her hijab in public. She was arrested on 13 September and reports indicate that she...
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ITALY’S MELONI WINS BIG IN ELECTIONS, EU ISSUES WARNING
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy, won the country’s election for prime minister and could lead Rome away from the EU orbit while taking aim at international bankers. “The situation in which Italy and the European Union find themselves is a particularly complex one,” she said during her victory speech. She continued,...
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ISRAEL KEEPS BOMBING SYRIAN AIRPORTS, KILLS MORE TROOPS
The Syrian military said Saturday that five soldiers were killed in Israeli airstrikes aimed at the Damascus International Airport and other nearby locations. The Trends Journal has reported on recent strikes at Syria’s second-largest airport in Aleppo in last week’s issue in an article titled, “ISRAEL: BOMBS AWAY OVER SYRIA, BUT LOOK THE OTHER WAY...
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CHINA: STOP THE WEST’S WARS TO ATTAIN GLOBAL DOMINANCE
The Global Times, which is widely seen to be the media arm of the Chinese Communist Party, ran an op-ed earlier this month that was critical of the West’s pursuit of power by force and intimidation. The article, which was published two days before the death of Queen Elizabeth II, cited recent comments by Mahathir Mohamad,...