Authoritarian Macron on the Back Foot: Could France Explode?
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Authoritarian Macron on the Back Foot: Could France Explode?

President Emmanuel Macron has impose his pensions bill by decree, thus avoiding a parliamentary vote he would have lost. It has led to spontaneous demonstrations across France. The lower house of the Parliament is also set to vote on a motion of no confidence in the government.

From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public Debt Today and in the History of Capitalism
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From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public Debt Today and in the History of Capitalism

This interview helps to understand the part played by debt and its mechanisms in the extraction of resources of the South by the North at an international level, and in the transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich within each society.