France’s Neoliberal Coup – with French MP Danièle Obono
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In the name of democracy, neoliberal French President Emmanuel Macron is thwarting democracy in a move that some are calling a coup.
The French left coalition, The New Popular Front, shocked the nation (and Macron) when they won the elections in July. Usually this would mean that a leftist candidate becomes the Prime Minister. But in the name of “institutional stability,” Macron is refusing to allow this to happen.
So, the leftist France Unbowed party, a member of the New Popular Front, is calling for mass demonstrations on September 7.
Our guest, France Unbowed Member of Parliament Danièle Obono, joins Useful Idiots to explain it all: “It's very disrespectful to the voters that their government would not actually be serious about what they voted for. They voted for us because our platform is to implement changes, to raise the minimum wage, to rebuild social services, to fund healthcare and education and environmental policy, to provide shelter and legal papers to migrant people. The voters should be respected.”
But, Obono vows, “they won’t succeed in silencing millions of people.”
Obono also criticizes Macron for cozying up to France’s fascist far right: “People [are] quite shocked that he would agree with the far right. It triggered something very deep within the people because the National Rally is an actual fascist party. They target migrant people, Muslim people. People feared for their lives, for the future of their kids.”
Subscribe for the full interview with MP Danièle Obono where she explains how Macron plans to use the far-right to launch a coup, how her comments about Hamas incited a government probe on her, and why France just arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm Katie helper. I'm Mary Matte. |
| 0:09.1 | Hey everybody, thanks so much for joining us for another episode. Our website is Just |
| 0:13.5 | Lydia's podcast.com go there support the show keep us going and get bonus |
| 0:18.8 | content. What's not to love? Yes including this week's Thursday throwdown where we make fun of CNN being offended, |
| 0:27.8 | triggered at the fact that Palestinian Americans who won delegates as uncommitted representatives wanted to speak at the |
| 0:36.6 | convention to support a ceasefire and CNN was offended by this by this audacious request so we go over that and a whole lot more. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah really really unbelievable to CNN the the nerve according to CNN well should we do the four basic food groups? |
| 0:54.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:55.0 | For Democrats suck, let's turn to the Biden administration and what they're doing to bring |
| 1:00.0 | a ceasefire to the Israeli assault on Gaza. Now the Biden administration claims that it wants a ceasefire. |
| 1:07.5 | Anthony Blanken's been shuttling back and forth to the Middle East. It's coming any day now. But meanwhile the Biden |
| 1:14.4 | administration will not stop the thing that is continuing to fuel Israel's |
| 1:19.5 | assault, which is sending Israel weapons. So while the Biden administration claims |
| 1:24.3 | that it's working for a ceasefire, |
| 1:25.8 | they continue to send Israel weapons. |
| 1:29.0 | And this is a headline from the Jerusalem Post. U.S. sends 500th aircraft Israel |
| 1:35.0 | as airlifts of weapons equipment continue. |
| 1:38.0 | And what do we see inside this this armored vehicles, munitions, ammunition, personal protection gear and medical equipment are crucial for sustaining the IDFs operational capabilities during the ongoing war. |
| 2:01.2 | So while the body administration claims that it's doing all |
| 2:04.3 | a can to achieve a ceasefire, the Israeli military says that the US weapons |
| 2:08.3 | deliveries are crucial for not having a ceasefire but for continuing its assault on Gaza. |
| 2:14.2 | So that's what the US is doing in real life. |
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