France is now viciously divided into five blocks – with very little uniting them: Macron’s En Marche! movement; Marine Le Pen’s National Front, which will be recomposed and expanded; Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Disobedient France, which is bound to lead a New Left; the shattered Republicans, or the traditional French Right, which badly needs a new leader after the François Fillon debacle; and the virtually destroyed Socialists post-Hollande....
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Neoliberal Banker Will Have Hard Time Ruling France
Neoliberal Banker Will Have Hard Time Ruling France
Pepe Escobar
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As Everyone Was Watching France a China-Friendly Pragmatist Won in South Korea
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As Everyone Was Watching France a China-Friendly Pragmatist Won in South Korea
Moon Jae-in: Some good news for once.
ReplyDeleteKaivey: Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteI want to agree but I don't know enough about his history or South Korean politics to say yet but the little I've read makes him seem very promising.
Re. Escobar's piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/may/08/protests-in-paris-a-day-after-macron-is-elected-french-president-video
The French are not stupid, and they are not apathetic as the British. This is far from over.
Sunshine in Korea, winter in France.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Macron will try to impose some "tough love".
I suspect Macron will try to impose some "tough love".
ReplyDeleteThat's what he was groomed by the Establishment to do.