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Macron Covering Israel’s State Terror

What more does it need for the French government to react and correct its indulgence, or rather its complicity, with Israel? The president’s policy follows the same line as that of François Hollande who lamented, in the presence of Netanyahu, that he could not sing aloud “all his love for Israel and for its leaders”, asks Alain Gresh. Friends in state terror  – a very liberal article that does not put Macron’s action as part of French imperialist actions and interests. There is no geopolitics and no political economy. French imperialism in the Sahel. French imperialism and the Egyptian regime. French imperialism in support of General Haftar. France’s war in Yemen. French capital in Africa and elsewhere.

Freedom and Democracy Update

It takes Cristiano Ronaldo around  3 minutes  to earn the weekly salary of  a Saudi worker on the average annual salary of £58,000,  90 seconds  to earn the weekly salary of  a British worker on the average annual salary of £26,000. Ronaldo earns £3.6 million per week.

‘Terrorism’: Theirs and Ours

Sir John Saunders, the chair of the inquiry, said the mosque had displayed "weak leadership" in failing t  address what an expert witness to the inquiry described as a "very toxic political environment" fuelled by conflict and unrest in Libya. Tracey Pook, the Didsbury Mosque's community engagement coordinator, has been monitoring the number of threats the centre has received and said they had been growing by the hour.  "Having compiled the threats and attacks, I've seen people say the mosque should be demolished, that extremists live here, and that the centre is somehow responsible for the murder of children," Pook told Middle East Eye . Words like ‘extremism’, ‘radicalism’ and ‘terrorism’ apply only to describe violence committed by individuals or organisations. Those who monopolise definitions - when they exist – and concepts throughout history are crucial in manufacturing ‘public opinion’ and producing emotive reaction, and therefore, opinions