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  Americans and other westerners ignore atrocities committed by their own governments because government officials and the media have a narrow definition of terrorism, said Noam Chomsky. To demonstrate, the linguist and political scientist compared two reports by the New York Times’ veteran correspondent Steven Erlanger — one following the Paris attacks …

Norman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo is sadism, not satire Mustafa Caglayan – Anadolu Agency | 28 Rabi ul Awwal 1436/20 January 2015 In Nazi Germany, there was an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper called Der Stürmer. Run by Julius Streicher, it was notorious for being one of the most virulent advocates of the persecution of Jews during the …

By Alan Hart 20 January, 2015 Countercurrents.org Britain’s Home Secretary Theresa May has declared that “We must all redouble our efforts to wipe out anti-Semitism here in the United Kingdom.” In her view and that of her government colleagues this means more must be done to combat violent Islamic fundamentalism …

By Peter Koenig Global Research, January 16, 2015 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/paris-charlie-the-shock-doctrine-par-excellence/5424960   On 12 January the French Parliament approved with almost unanimity – with one abstention only – the budget for France’s continuous and enlarged involvement in the new war on Iraq, a new war engagement led by …

  By Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star, January 14, 2015   There can never be any justification for murdering provocateurs or innocents. Take down their killers, if we must. Or round up the accomplices and throw the book at them.   That’s a statement of the obvious after the Charlie Hebdo …

by John W. Whitehead Source: Information Clearing House   If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having …

By Ramzy Baroud 15 January, 2015 Countercurrents.org It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important for many to conflate politics with religion; partly because it is convenient and self-validating. First, let’s be clear on some …

Shoks Mnisi Mzolo – Cii News The end remains out of sight in the mess, and now civil war, that the diamond-rich Central African Republic (CAR) degenerated into since the coup d’état of France-propped Francois Bozize in 2013. Human suffering is common as fighters of different streaks and causes – anti-balaika …

Shoks Mnisi Mzolo – Cii News The coup d’état regime’s tightening grip, under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has deepened Egypt’s economic and social crises, human rights and anti-coup movement March for Justice chairman Prof Nidal Sakr told Cii listeners this morning. Misery and violence, with civilians killed by the military’s live ammunition, …

  One thing I must make clear at the outset is that I view the taking of the life of another who poses no direct threat to your own life as a crime and a heinous one at that. It is as objectionable when it happens on the streets of …