What Will Happen If France’s Yellow Vest Protesters Win?

If the demands of the protesters are met, there will be someone else who will be forced to cover the bill. Most likely tens of millions, or hundreds of millions will be ‘taxed’. And they will not be living in France, or in the European Union, or even anywhere near it.

Andre Vltchek
By Andre Vltchek
France | Yellow Vest | Protesters

What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about an increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to

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Republican Anti-Protest Bills Protect Drivers That Run Over Protesters

Bills immunizing drivers from liability if they hit protesters are part of a raft of anti-protesting legislation that Republicans have advanced in 2017.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

A number of state legislatures have considered bills that shield drivers from liability if they run over protesters, who are “obstructing” traffic. These anti-protest bills from Republican lawmakers reflect a political climate in which far-right activists increasingly find it permissible to mow down Black Lives Matter protesters and other

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Left, Right Or Center – The Police State Does Not Discriminate

America’s militarized police force and its brutal crackdown on protesters is being meted out to Americans across the political spectrum.

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
Police killings Protest Feature photo

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as

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Mexico’s President Avoids Protesters, Unless They’re Venezuelan

The Mexican president’s meeting with Tintori reinforced his country’s pro-interventionist position on Venezuela.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto with Venezuelan opposition activist Lilian Tintori, right, April 6, 2017. | Photo: Enrique Peña Nieto/Twitter

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is notorious for avoiding meetings with protesters. It took him an entire year to finally meet with the parents of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College who went missing in September 2014. Peña Nieto also cancelled talks with leaders of National Coordination of Education Workers, CNTE,

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Amid AIPAC Protests, Two Alleged JDL Members Charged With Assaulting Protesters

Two alleged members of the extremist Jewish Defense League have been charged with attacking protesters at last weekend’s AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C. The attacks mark the group’s most violent public incident in years.

Joe Catron
By Joe Catron
Rabbi Dovid Feldman, center, along with others protest outside of the Washington Convention Center where the 2017 AIPAC Policy Conference is taking, during a rally in Washington, Sunday, March 26, 2017. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djycAKu0RHk WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Two alleged members of the Jewish Defense League face charges of assault and hate crimes after a vicious attack on a Palestinian-American man attending a protest against the policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, last Sunday. Multiple

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Former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak Freed After 6 Years In Prison

Mubarak, 88, was acquitted earlier this month after Egypt’s top court cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ousted him.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
In this Oct. 16, 1016 file photo, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from his room at the Maadi Military Hospital as they celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the Oct. 6, 1973 war. An Egyptian security official said Froday, March 24, 2017 that the country’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak returned home, after his release. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed and has left a military hospital in southern Cairo, returning to his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer has confirmed. Mubarak, 88, was acquitted earlier this month after Egypt’s top court cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ousted him. The

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