Yellow Vests

Readers from myriad latitudes have been asking me about Hong Kong. They know its one of my previous homes. I developed a complex, multi-faceted relationship with Hong Kong ever since the 1997 handover, which I covered extensively. Right now, if you allow me, …

In last weeks debates, the Democratic candidates repeatedly discussed how to respond to what an upcoming CNN forum calls the climate crisis. Over two days, the partys presidential hopefuls sparred over whose policies would best address what the United Nations…

Authored by Guy Milliere via The Gatestone Institute, Paris, Champs-Élysées. July 14. Bastille Day. Just before the military parade begins, President Emmanuel Macron comes down the avenue in an official car to greet the crowd. Thousands of people gathered al…

The London-proposed initiative of a maritime coalition in the Strait of Hormuz makes not only Tehran nervous, but also Europe. Can Paris, Berlin, and Brussels work out a diplomatic alternative to the more aggressive plan of Great Britain and the US?Will Franc…

(Bloomberg) -- French economic growth unexpectedly slowed, adding to risks for a euro area already shaken by a manufacturing slump and frailties in its largest economy, Germany. France was expected to show greater resilience as its less exposed to the slowdo…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom was not objective in its assessment of the situation around the recent unauthorized rally in Moscow, the spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in London told journalists on Sunday.On Sunday, the UK Foreign Office expressed …

Congress is once again trying to impose a carbon tax on the American people, with multiple bills coming from both Democrats and Republicans. It must be understood that a carbon tax would be one of the most regressive taxes the United States has ever …

2019 is the year that yellow became the new black in France. This fashion began with the gilets jaunes, the yellow-vested protesters whose demonstrations paralyzed Frances politics and imperiled the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. The fashion has now gotten a …

A steel worker returns to work after a two year idle at U.S. Steel Granite City Works in Granite City, Illinois, U.S., May 24, 2018. Photo taken May 24, 2018.(REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant ) Im not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capital…

(Bloomberg) -- Its become a familiar story in European politics: a charismatic outsider captures the imagination of a nation fed up with a stagnant and bumbling political class. He rises quickly, at the head of a movement that sweeps out the old elite, and ga…