Fascists Thwarted In France— The Left Comes In First... Nazis Sank To Third Place
Le Pen's Fake Moderation Didn't Work This Time Le Monde ran an article— picked up and translated into English by The Guardian— yesterday:...
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Howie Klein
Jul 14 min read
The Far Right Is Rising... Will France Fall Under the Heel Of The Fascist Boot?
French Election Results Were Very Bad For Democracy The far right went crazy yesterday— but we’ll leave MAGA out of this discussion....
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Howie Klein
Jun 126 min read
Trump Is Worse Than Any Of Europe's Modern Day Fascist Leaders
Also: Are The Lib-Dems A Credible Alternative To Corporate New Labour? As we saw over the weekend, the French neo-fascist party, National...
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Howie Klein
Jun 104 min read
Europa: Far Right Surges As Greens Sink In EU Parliamentary Elections
Establishment Centrist Parties Did Badly In 1969 I went overseas and spent a lot of time traveling. I bought a VW camper and drove down...
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Howie Klein
Mar 54 min read
If You're A Woman You'd Be Better Off Living In France Than Oklahoma
You'd Be Better Off Living ANYWHERE Other Than Oklahoma The thing that got me about France incorporating women’s rights to an abortion...
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Howie Klein
Feb 134 min read
A Defeat For Trump & The Russo-Republicans In The Senate-- Aid Package For Ukraine Passes Bigtime
After a week-long series of votes to override an intense campaign by Let’s Make Russia Great Again Russo-Republicans— primarily Rand Paul...
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Howie Klein
Jan 92 min read
Meet Gabriel Attal— Young, Boyishly Good Looking, Smart, Gay… As Of Today Prime Minister Of France
Also Something Of An Ambitious Political Chameleon Attal, a son of privilege, has long appeared to be on a rocket ride to the top of...
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Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20235 min read
Do You Ever Feel Like Congress Is Disintegrating Before Our Eyes? That's Exactly What Trump Wants
So now what happens in January when MAGA Mike’s short-term continuing resolution runs out and his shattered majority has to pass a...
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Howie Klein
Aug 28, 20236 min read
Divisiveness And Polarization As Forms Of Social Control... And Not Just In The U.S.
France has the biggest Muslim population of any Western nation— something like 5-6 million out of a total population of 67.7 million,...
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Howie Klein
Mar 27, 20235 min read
U.S. Conservatives Hellbent On Raising The Retirement Age, Ignore France At Their Own Peril
Police Brutality Always Backfires As the French police amp up their violence and brutality against peaceful demonstrators, the protests...
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Howie Klein
Mar 23, 20235 min read
Conservative Politicians In DC, Who Don't Even Know What Work Is, Think We Should All Work Longer
French Workers Are Fighting Back-- Will Americans? American conservatives are eager to raise the retirement age. The alternative is...
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Howie Klein
Mar 17, 20232 min read
Will Macron's Government Collapse After Trying To Raise The Retirement Age?
Earlier we looked at the bizarre question of conservatives going up against the popular will to push unpopular solutions that are favored...
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Howie Klein
Jan 20, 20233 min read
The French Have A Good Answer To Conservative Plans To Raise The Retirement Age-- General Strikes
Last night, Le Monde reported that over a million people took to the streets to protest the kind of pension “reform” that the Republicans...
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Howie Klein
Jun 20, 20222 min read
France: Resurgent Right, Resurgent Left, Stagnating Neoliberal Centrists-- Sound Familiar?
Macron had a solid victory in the presidential runoff election on April 24 against fascist Marine Le Pen. He beat her 18,768,639 (58.55%)...
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Howie Klein
Apr 25, 20222 min read
Slovenia Also Had Elections Yesterday-- And The Fascist Was Kicked out Of Office
By now, everyone knows that yesterday the mainstream conservative incumbent, Emmanuel Macron beat the Putin-financed fascist candidate,...
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Howie Klein
Feb 14, 20223 min read
The French Presidential Election-- Take One
The first round in France's presidential election is April 10 and if no one wins a majority-- a certainty since there are nearly 40...
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Harvey Wasserman
Dec 17, 20216 min read
The Insane Diablo Canyon Nukes Need to Shut NOW!
-by Harvey Wasserman The nuclear power insanity is nowhere more dangerous that at California’s ancient, aging, embrittled Diablo Canyon...
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Howie Klein
Aug 28, 20214 min read
Protests All Over Europe Against Vaccine And Mask Mandates
Wait, wait... not every idiot in the word lives in America. I've been to nearly every country in the world and there are idiots...
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Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20215 min read
Will Tennessee Ban Dentists Next?
Of the dozen states with the worst numbers of COVID cases per capita, Tennessee is #5. In the last 2 weeks, Tennessee has experienced an...
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Howie Klein
Jul 24, 20216 min read
Freedom!-- To Infect Everyone Else With COVID
In today's NY Times, Bethany Mandel, a conservative Utah Republican, asserted that mask mandates are bullshit-- but pressures to get...
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