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"Je suis Charlie"

What are French Politicians and Journalists Afraid of?

by Voltaire Network

Geneva (Switzerland) | 26 January 2015
The astonishing Press campaign currently being waged in France, in the name of freedom of expression, against all those who have been questioning the January attacks in Paris, has spread progressively to all the NATO countries. As from now, the use of a critical mind may become a criminal offence punishable by prison.

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Voltaire Network denounces attempt by the "rebels" to arrest Thierry Meyssan

by Voltaire Network

25 August 2011
Voltaire Network, Thursday, 25 August 25, 2011, 3:25 p.m. - The journalists who had been trapped inside the hotel Rixos in Tripoli since Sunday were evacuated yesterday, 24 August 2011, at 5 p.m, by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The four members of the Voltaire Network team - journalists Thierry Meyssan, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Mathieu Ozanon and Julien Teil - were among them.
However, after their release, the rebels tried to detain Thierry Meyssan, well known for (...)

Darfur: Simplification and Moralization of the Conflict

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 10 March 2006
The extremely complex situation in Darfur is being ignored by analysts and by the commentaries published in the western mainstream media, particularly in the United States. US media analysts deal with the Darfur issue only as an ethnic conflict, or more precisely as the “genocide” of “Africans” at the hands of the “Arabs”. If it is a fact that the conflict leads to massacres that cruelly affect sedentary populations, it is false to suggest that confrontation is based on such ethnic or “racial” reasons and that such a division is the cause of the conflict.

Pakistan: after the missiles, the smokescreen

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 3 February 2006
As we already said in previous articles, the US attacks against Pakistan, whose supposed goal was to eliminate Al-Qaeda’s Number 2: Ayman Al Zawahiri, allowed to attack rebel movements in Baluchistan. However, the mainstream media have never considered this offensive as evidence of Washington’s support of his allied Pervez Musharraf and an attempt of brutal “pacification” of a strategic zone that is crucial for the transfer of oil from the Caspian Sea. Giving more importance to the myth of the “global war on terrorism”, analysts leave aside the subtleties of Pakistan’s policies to focus on the justification, or condemnation, of the principle of “selective killing” and on other questions about the regime of Pervez Musharraf.

Russia: George Soros’ great offensive reveals the emergency of the energy situation

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 2 February 2006
As it is hard to believe that the disclosure of the activities of British spies by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is just a coincidence of the calendar, it is certainly very unlikely that the activities of Project Syndicate dealing with the Ukrainian issue are not a veiled response. Thus, the staff of George Soros spreads columns in affiliated media questioning the Russian energy policy and the political orientation of the country. Considering their audience and the effect of their reiteration, it is easy to understand that the arguments presented by Project Syndicate have an impact not only on public opinion but also on the analysts who usually deal with these topics. Therefore, anyone can see in the background of this issue the concern of the big financial organizations about the re-distribution of world energy (...)

The two bodies of the Israeli Prime Minister

by Voltaire Network

1 February 2006
In his famous work The King’s two bodies, German historian Ernst kantorowicz studied the consecration of the royal figure of the Middle Age and of Modern Times in Europe. He studied how the myth of double Royal nature had been created: on the first hand, the individual with his own gifts and shortcomings (the King) and on the second hand the incarnation of a function well above the person who would incarnate that function (the King). Such a system is similarly applied by the media to the post of Prime Minister in Israel. That way, the gifts previously attributed to Ariel Sharon are now those of Ehud Olmert.

Chile, Bolivia… “responsible” left against “populist” left

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 31 January 2006
The Electoral victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia again puts Latin America in the focus of attention of the media after a long absence. Erroneously compared to the election of socialist Michelle Bachelet in Chile, the Bolivian election is fairly interpreted by the media as a symbol of a political turning point in the continent. The pro-American circles show concern in front of this trend, while they praise the “realist” policies of Washington’s last supporters.

Iraq: What does success mean?

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 30 January 2006
Trapped in its own propaganda, the US currently faces a serious problem in Iraq. The US people are more and more reluctant to the deployment of troops in Iraq, while neo-cons are already dreaming of new invasions. For the Bush administration, the officially-proclaimed objectives of the invasion make it too difficult for a victorious withdrawal, though. Washington’s elite discusses the conditions for the retreat and tries to define what could be interpreted as a success.

Iran: made satanic before what?

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 27 January 2006
We’re witnessing, in the mainstream press, a propaganda campaign against Iran similar to that preceding the invasion of Iraq. We’re seeing again the arguments then used to shape western opinion for a war on Baghdad. However, there is a big difference between the articles currently condemning Iran and those that stigmatized Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before the invasion: there is practically no talking about a possible war. The process of making Iran satanic is running smoothly but even the most belligerent neo-cons frown now before explicitly speaking of an armed conflict.

After all, it is just a movie…

by Voltaire Network

24 January 2006
The entertainment, television or movie industries feature political symbols that can support or denounce the actions of a government. In this case, they then turn into an adversary for those who are in power, whose impact has to be minimized. Over the past months, we have seen several movies of political nature that portray elements criticizing the activities of the Bush Administration. The neo-conservative and Zionist circles have mobilized to discredit them.

Orwellian resource to make torture acceptable

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 20 January 2006
Eclipsed by the media whirl of the end of the year, the torture issue begins to gradually appear again in some articles. Most of media outlets make big efforts to analyze it “with clarity and without prejudices” (as the German conservative journal Frankfurter Allgemeine reads), which in fact means justifying the method. Bottom line: torture is harmful from the moral point of view but… Everything lies on that “but” and they resort to the Orwellian neo-speech to sweeten the pill for the public.

Debate on “Islam” Back in the Media

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 19 January 2006
The questions about Islam, which have been formulated after the spreading of images produced by the Strauss ideology of the “Clash of Civilizations”, are a recurrent subject in the “Western” press since 9/11, 2001. Having nothing to do with recent reality, many tribunes that expose or question these prejudices have been published in recent days.

Chronicle of the Announced Death of a “Man of Peace”

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 18 January 2006
“Homicidal”, “killer”, “war criminal”, “terrorist”, “commander-in-chief of a death squad”: none of these words will be found in the hagiographic forums spread by the Atlantist press after the stroke suffered by Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Regrettably, this is not amazing to us. We have already commented here how Sharon was presented as a “man of peace”, a “centrist” by an amnesia-affected press.

The Unknown Evo Morales

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 17 January 2006
Coca-leaf farmer Evo Morales – President of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) – has been elected President of Bolivia in the first electoral round on December 18, 2005. The International Press puts the event in some skeptical manner, which translates into the US loss of interest in South America and a growing ignorance of its history and evolution. So, the ballot has been hailed incorrectly as the first election of an Amerindian president in the continent.

Silencing the media with submission or with bombs

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 16 January 2006
The Project to bomb Al Jazeera has led people to talk a lot about this issue in the United Kingdom, where the government of Tony Blair has refused to make any comments. However, outside the United Kingdom, not much is said about it and most of the western media outlets, the same that do not hesitate to denounce attacks on freedom of the press when it affects a western journalist, remain silent. However, focusing on Al Jazeera, isn’t it losing sight of a more important issue which is the treatment given to the media by the Bush administration? John Pilger and Sydney Blumenthal express their irritation at the submissiveness of mainstream media.

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