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Updated: Jan. 14, 2015
with Chris Hedges
breakingtheset on Jan 12, 2015
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin, discusses the lack of media coverage of the massacre of as many as 2,000 people in the town of Baga by Boko Haram militants. Abby then goes over the most outrageous responses to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and why the clash of civilizations mentality when it comes to these type of acts is so misleading. Abby then speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Chris Hedges, about the roots of the attacks in France and the relationship between global events and the rise of radicalization.
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Updated: Jan. 14, 2015
Paris Attacks: Rage of the Dispossessed
TheRealNews on Jan 13, 2015
Chris Hedges says mass self-exaltation of the kind we see in the photo is dangerous because with it comes a blindness
see also
A Message From the Dispossessed by Chris Hedges
Boko Haram escalates offensive in Nigeria’s Borno State
Boko Haram’s ‘deadliest massacre’: 2,000 feared dead in Nigeria
Massacre in Nigeria: Up to 2,000 Feared Dead in Boko Haram’s Worst Attack to Date
Reporters Without Borders on Witnessing the Paris Massacre Aftermath & Press Freedom After Charlie
see
Chris Hedges: How Prisons Ripoff and Exploit the Incarcerated, Part 1
Chris Hedges and Loretta Napoleoni: The Islamic State and the Crisis in US Foreign Policy
Chris Hedges: We’ve Decapitated More Civilians Than ISIS Ever Has
America’s Surveillance State, Part 1: The Surveillance Machine
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“Exclusive Interview with ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoonist Luz” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebL1oCy6tgY
Thanks for the video link, Fabrice. I edited your comment to put the name of the video and the youtube link.
I found this rather interesting: http://rt.com/news/222899-charlie-hebdo-roussel-obs/ – original founder of Charlie Hebdo…
Thanks, Vera.
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David, GBC, and DS, absolutely so! Good comments, gents!
I’m totally in agreement.
GBC, I don’t watch the Democratic Party shills (or apologists) on MSNBC but watch RT religiously.
2015 will be a very interesting year with some unforeseen consequences around the planet from our reckless folly in our quest to control everything.
Shiver me timbers!
Happy New Year, Frank.
Spot on Frank! This is sure to be a hugely significant year…I just watched an alarmingly gruesome film about the civil war in Sierra Leone, so disturbing and graphic I dare not cite it…atrocities beyond description ~ and both UK and French “interests” have been heavily implicated historically in all this “post-colonial” (not just) West African genocidal savagery. On top of that, comes ebola.
As for the US, I invite you to fill in the epic blanks ~ re those bleeding-heart “Charlies,” did you see this?
http://mic.com/articles/108166/one-student-s-epic-tweets-call-out-the-biggest-hypocrites-marching-for-free-speech-in-paris
Thanks, David, yes, I did see that. Thanks for adding it here.
What I find odd is the recent trumpeted admission of responsibility by “Al Qaeda” in Yemen, while the supermarket assassin video claims it was all coordinated by the “caliphate.”
So France dispatches an aircraft carrier to allegedly attack “ISIS/L” but why not the culpable Yemeni faction?
Seems like the Western narrative of blame is rather confused and contradictory.
Moi, je ne suis pas Charlie. They “sensitively” self-censored their cartoons depicting zionism but must be “legitimately entitled” to trivialise everyone else.
B. Netanyahu enjoys sanctified and privileged exemption from satire in France evidently.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2015; added another similar interview with Chris Hedges on this topic. Plus link to the transcript for those who prefer to read it.
I try, where I can, to redirect Rachel Maddow fans away from corporate media and its manufactured controversies and over to Abby Martin. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks, gcb. Sounds like a good plan. Maddow was pretty good during the Bush II years, but since Obama has been president, she only speaks the corporate/Democratic Party line.
Absolutely right, Chris Hedges speaks not only with great intellectual insight, but from indisputable experience. His discourse is almost never distorted by axe-grinding personal prejudice or rose-coloured inflections.
This is an excellent interview.
Reza Aslan is a celebrity lightweight in comparison ~ not much of a religious scholar in my opinion…his arguments are weak, not infrequently superficial and frankly, naively gratuitous.
Thanks, David. I’m not familiar with Reza Aslan, so cannot comment on that point.
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