Links to three reports: from National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle, and to commentary via Forum Geopolitica; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for this date’s UKRAINE and WEST BANK, and down for ALL OF IT 10-25.) — MCM

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Macron vows ‘strong measures’ to combat protests, by Matt Ford | DW, with AFP, Reuters  The French government is set to announce a series of “strong measures” to assuage protests which have rocked France in recent weeks, President Emmanuel Macron said today. READ MORE . . .

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What’s fueling youth-led protests across Europe? Leila Fadel of NPR talks with Paris-based professor Alberto Alemanno about whether youth protests across Europe are a sign of a generation in crisis. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM OCT. 25  What’s bringing protestors to the streets in Europe? Ayesha Rascoe of NPR asks British historian Timothy Garton Ash what’s roiling a continent amid widespread protests in France, Italy, Spain and Albania. Click HERE to listen and read.

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Trump’s war overreach may be the straw that breaks the back of the West’s financialised architecture, by Alastair Crooke | Forum Geopolitica  Almost everywhere there is a deepening sense that the western Liberal economic project is on the verge of collapsing in very fundamental ways — most obviously, this has been on display on the streets of Paris. But it can be seen too . . . READ MORE . . .