Yellow Vests

Wind turbines, Columbia Gorge. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Washington Post had two columns last week that told us much more than their authors likely intended. The first was a piece by E.J. Dionne, that told readers about the need to tame capitalism, becau…

CLICHY, FRANCE - Environmental activists chained themselves to gates and turnstiles Tuesday as they occupied an Amazon building near Paris, accusing the online company of destroying jobs and hurting the planet. Protesters also disrupted Amazon sites in the s…

French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened a preliminary investigation after police used riot shields and pepper spray to clear scores of climate activists blocking a bridge over the Seine in Paris last week. The probe is to be carried out by the nati…

At least 30 French 'ghost' civil servants have been paid more than £22 million to do absolutely nothing for the last three decades, a new financial report has revealed. The astonishing revelation is the latest to emerge in a country that is notorious for its…

(This post originally appeared on my Patreon site.) The Washington Post had two columns last week that told us much more than their authors likely intended. The first was a piece by E.J. Dionne, that told readers about the need to tame capitalism, because of…

Date created : 26/06/2019 - 22:41 The six-week summer sales period has kicked off across France, with retailers hoping to make up for revenue lost during the Yellow Vests protest. Also in the show...Donald Trump weighs in on trade with China and the Federal …

(ANSAmed) - PARIS, JUNE 26 - France's High Council for the Climate said in its first report that France "doesn't have any chance" of reaching climate objectives established during the COP 21 Conference held in Paris in 2015.The report contains about 50 pag…

Economic goals and the ritual of democracy We already noted the economic goal of this new model of power, namely to steamroll economic reforms, deregulate existing labour, create the large mass of a disenfranchised labour force, create a unified market of go…

Frances public auditor on Tuesday warned that the countrys debt level, which is hovering at close to 100 percent, was worrying and urged the government to control spending. Frances debt-to-GDP ratio is set to reach 98.9 percent this year, bucking the downwa…

By Servaas Storm, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Delft University of Technology. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth …