Wednesday, January 14, 2015

RSN: Is This Country Crazy? Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know



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Juan Cole | Charlie Hebdo Team Regret Not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders
Publishing director of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Stéphane Charbonnier, who was killed in the attack last week. (photo: Fred Dufour/AFP)
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "They said their biggest regret was that they couldn't have paraded caricatures from the past pages of Charlie Hebdo of the various heads of state who joined the rally - Benyamin Netanyahu, King Abdallah II of Jordan, of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, of Russian Foreign Minister Sergueï Lavrov, of Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and of all the authoritarian heads of state they had lampooned over the years."
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Jeremy Scahill | Were the Paris Shooters Part of a Global Terrorist Conspiracy?
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
Scahill writes: "Even if AQAP did not 'direct' the attack, there is seemingly credible information emerging to prove that at least one - and potentially both - of the Kouachi brothers spent time with AQAP in Yemen."
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Charles Pierce | Hell on Earth: Massacre in Nigeria
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "I suspect that, if there wasn't a way for the Fear And Trembling Caucus to link it to the awful events in Paris, the massacre of somewhere north of 2000 people in the Nigerian fishing village of Baga might not even have registered on American radar."
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Merkel to Join Muslim Tolerance Rally to Rebuke Growing Anti-Islam Movement
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to join a Muslim community rally to promote tolerance, condemn the attacks in Paris and send a rebuke to Germany's growing anti-Islam movement."
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France Votes to Deploy Troops to Iraq
TeleSUR
Excerpt: "The French Parliament voted overwhelming Tuesday to send more troops to Iraq to fight Islamic State group militants, with 448 votes in favor and one against, as tensions remain high in France following three days of deadly attacks in Paris last week."
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California's AG Kamala Harris Announces Bid for Barbara Boxer's US Senate Seat
Michael R. Blood and Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Harris, the first woman and the first minority to serve as California's top prosecutor, planned to announce the move Tuesday morning."
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Ann Jones | Is This Country Crazy? Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Jones writes: "Americans who live abroad - more than six million of us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. government) - often face hard questions about our country from people we live among."
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