Facts Behind Charlie Hebdo's Islamophobia (and vid)
http://www.presstv.com/Video/2015/01/17/393441/Facts-behind-Charlie-Hebd...
"...But many believe the journal's history is being white-washed, as long time media watchers say Charlie Hebdo went from a group motivated by freedom of expression to one obsessed with Islamophobia and other right-wiing causes.
In 2006 Val and another Charlie Hebdo staffer signed a manifesto that shockingly declared Islam to be the 'New Totalitarianism,' even on a par with Nazism. Among the other 10 signatories - reactionaries beloved of conservative think tanks in the West. [and progressive Canadian sites].
As is often the case, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian went hand-in-hand."
Were the Paris Killings a Threat To Our Freedoms? - by Michael Rozeff
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/were-the-paris-killings-a-threat-to-...
"I say emphatically; The Paris killings were not a threat to our freedoms. The neocon ideas that are being implemented in Washington's foreign policies are not just threats to our freedoms, they have brought very real inroads into our freedoms. They have decimated certain of these.
In this instance, the idea being asserted is that they are opposed to freedom of the press. All of this is the biggest bunch of nonsense imaginable. It is complete baloney. The answer is that it's only in the last 65 years or so that the US has meddled seriously in a bunch of Muslim nations.
The neocons use these lines (lies) so as to produce a warrior attitude against the countries they wish to invade. They want us to think that when there is retaliation against US and Western political and military policies, that it's not retaliation, not blowback, not provoked by what the US has done, but instead stems from a hatred of the West at a religious level or ideological level.
The neocons are completely wrong about this. All this uproar about a world-defining event in Paris is total hokum. It's Barnum & Bailey time. The neocons want to use it to peddle their warmongering. The truth stares us in the face."
Lucky Francois - by Eric Margolis
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/eric-margolis/charlie-hebdo-boosts-so...
"...Hollande went overnight from a fuddled little man to male Joan of Arc and defender of liberty. All France rallied to the embattled president and gave him a new lease on political life.
Hollande and the National Assembly lost no time in announcing that France would increase and intensify its military operations in Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, East Africa, Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Afghanistan (from where French troops have been withdrawing) as well as covert operations in Syria, Lebanon and Somalia.
In fact, Hollande has been advocating French military intervention in Africa and Asia for much of his term. One would think that Socialists would be less militaristic but such is not the case in France. [or Canada!]. There has long been an anti-Arab/Anti-Muslim core in the Socialists and members with imperial ambitions.
Interestingly, it was France's Socialists who secretly provided Israel with its nuclear arsenal.
The mayhem in Paris certainly reminded many of America's 9/11 ordeal. In both cases, a floundering, lackluster leader was suddenly catapulted into the role of national champion and heroic warlord...and he is milking the Paris massacre for all its worth."
