Cédric Housez

French political communication specialist, chief editor of “Op-eds deciphered”.

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Reporters without Borders remembers (lately) Sami Al Haj

by Cédric Housez

Lille (France) | 2 March 2006

Better late than never! On Monday, February 13, 2006, the association of Reporters without Borders (RWB) (“Quand Reporters Sans Frontières couvre la CIA”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire, April 25, 2005), and (“The lies of Reporters without Borders]”, by Salim Lamrani, Voltaire, September 2, (...)

“Le Point” and “L’Express” break “taboos” for Nicolas Sarkozy

by Cédric Housez

2 March 2006

On February 13, 2006, in statements made for the radio RMC-Info minutes before the Delinquency National Observatory presented its report, the French Minister of Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, referred to the establishment of a national archive for ethnic origin of delinquents. The statement made (...)

The “Daily Telegraph” calls for regime change … in Europe

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 16 January 2006

In its edition dated December 5, 2005, the very conservative British newspaper Daily Telegraph, published its editorial entitled (“ Regime change is needed in Europe”). Released the first day of the visit by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Europe, the text claimed that (...)

Line of Argument

The London-Washington Axis Called Into Question

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 16 December 2005

The traditional alliance of the British crown with its former American colony, an alliance that served as a foundation for the British foreign policy during the times of Winston Churchill and also Margaret Thatcher, is called into question today. In effect, the United Kingdom has no other (...)

Left Wing “Division”: Caroline Fourest’s “double discourse”

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 1 December 2005

The presenter of the Prochoix association and journalist for the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Caroline Fourest, published in Ediciones Grasset La Tentation obscurantiste [The obscurantist temptation]. In such essay, she further continued to denounce the French (...)

Sarkozy: Everything counts when it comes to communication

by Cédric Housez

23 November 2005

We have already indicated in our columns how the French
minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared a
candidate for presidential elections in 2007, had used
the debate “about” the Islamic veil to introduce
the “Clash of civilizations” into the French public
debate. He had further (...)

Riots in France: satisfaction of the warmongering press

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 22 November 2005

The Anglo-Saxon media outlets have widely covered the violence in the outskirts of France and have been as diligent as when they supported the war in Iraq and denounced France’s contrary attitude towards it. While violent events in France involve adolescents and youths and have no popular (...)

France: the “war on terror” media plan continues

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 19 October 2005

As we had indicated in our article “France: The ’war on terror’ makes its entrance into the presidential campaign””, the Atlantist personalities of the Union for a Popular Movement, France’s major right wing party, are using the “war on terror” for their personal promotion. After denouncing (...)

The strategy of fear

France: The “war on terror” makes its entrance into the presidential campaign

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 12 October 2005

As clever manipulators of the media, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, Parliament member Pierre Lellouche and anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguière are using the “war on terror” as the main topic of the French presidential pre-campaign. State-run television channel France 3 and the press (...)

The betrayal of the French Libertarians

Selling the “clash of civilizations” to the Left

by Cédric Housez

Paris (France) | 6 September 2005

After having built their libertarian identity and gotten an audience among left-wing electors, satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo and feminist association Prochoix have decided to relay the neoconservative theses about the “clash of civilizations”. This rapid turn allowed them to get (...)

The betrayal of the scholars

Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard Henry Lévy, two propagandists of the «clash of civilizations»

by Cédric Housez

18 May 2005

In the past, France used to boast about producing great intellectuals who provided the world with new elements of reflection. However, today, it lives under the dictatorship of those who dictate their opinions, who answer their own questions to impose, more easily, the prefabricated thinking, (...)

Dispute

Turkey Joining the EU

by Cédric Housez

15 December 2004

On the eve of the European Commission’s study of Turkey’s candidacy for the European Union, Réseau Voltaire synthesizes the different arguments and examines their pertinence. In their attempts to convince, both partisans and adversaries do not hesitate to recuperate widespread anachronisms and (...)

According to the US Political Power, God Is On Its Side

The Battle for US Identity

by Cédric Housez

18 August 2004

Every morning, US school children recite a pledge of allegiance to the flag that speaks of the dedication of their country to God. Last June, the Supreme Court rejected a complaint seeking to declare unconstitutional that reference. Cedric Housez, a French specialist in political (...)

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