Analysis
Are the Gilets Jaunes Today’s Sans-Culottes?
“Pour le peuple, il y a toujours la misère!” Anonymous Gilet Jaune
Restoration work in Syria
With the war in Syria going on for seven years, since 2011, a silver streak has appeared on the horizon as Syria’s damaged infrastructure is being restored with Russian help. Schools and factories have been built up again, school children and factory workers are gradually returning. Furthermore, thousands of Syrian volunteer organizations provide help and assistance to their countrymen in need. President Assad is still ruling, although he should have gone a long time ago, if so-called “western powers” could have imposed their will. Are these western powers waning?