Why Are Climate Groups Helping Fuel Chaos in France?
France is burning. Cars are torched, businesses are looted, and police are battling rioters in the streets. And among the organizations cheering on the chaos are some familiar faces from the radical climate movement.
A new Fox News investigation by Asra Nomani identifies 54 organizations involved in organizing, participating in, supporting, or amplifying the unrest sweeping France. Among them are communist groups, revolutionary socialists, and environmental activists whose political ambitions extend far beyond protecting the planet.
Consider Extinction Rebellion, the international climate activist movement whose imagery has appeared at the French demonstrations. Or Les Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth Uprisings), the radical environmental group that celebrated the student revolt and called for an antifascist uprising.
And, of course, climate celebrity Greta Thunberg made an appearance, standing alongside protesters and condemning the police response as violence spread across the country.
What does any of this have to do with the climate?
Even more troubling is the appearance of the Neville Roy Singham network, the Shanghai-based billionaire’s web of Marxist organizations and media outlets that has also drawn scrutiny for its role in opposing American data center development.
Nomani reports that Singham-linked organizations, including Tricontinental, CodePink, and BreakThrough News, have amplified the French unrest. BreakThrough News promoted footage of the disorder, while CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans encouraged Americans to look to the demonstrations in France and elsewhere as inspiration.
This is the same network that congressional investigators have flagged for its connections to campaigns against American AI infrastructure, at least partially based on our research.
Power The Future’s Manufactured Outrage investigation has already exposed how activist networks and wealthy donors are bankrolling opposition to the energy infrastructure and data centers America needs to compete and prosper.
The overlap deserves serious scrutiny. Whether the target is American energy production, the infrastructure powering the AI revolution, or Western political institutions, radical activist networks repeatedly turn up on the side of disruption rather than progress.
For the most radical elements of this movement, saving the planet increasingly looks less like the mission than dismantling the West.
October 19, 2026