Tag: France
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Synthetic Terror Spectacle
Following a wave of terrorist attacks in late June in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait, the narrative that ISIS is on the march has been dusted off by Western governments and media, though that particular fairy tale has never been allowed to collect dust for very long. While it’s entirely unclear what, if any, ties the alleged perpetrators…
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Puppeteering Terror
In the 1971 film The French Connection, New York police detective “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) uncovers an underworld drug smuggling operation involving the importation of millions of dollars in heroin by a French cartel that planned to use a media personality as an unwitting front. This week, we were shocked to learn that Onion-like French satire publication Charlie Hebdo had been…
The Soul of the East 