VIDEO: 1.6 Billion Muslim Scapegoats
Abby Martin, discusses the mainstream media’s reaction to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and why lumping in all Muslims with the attack is so dangerous.
Abby Martin, discusses the mainstream media’s reaction to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and why lumping in all Muslims with the attack is so dangerous.
Mass data collection and other NSA surveillance, both domestic and international, failed to stop terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing, the attack on the United States embassy in Benghazi in 2012, or the “domestic terrorist,” cop killer Eric Frein. It also failed in France.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks with advisers and security on Capitol Hill in Washington. (ANTIMEDIA) Following the abominable shooting of Parisian journalists at Charlie Hebdo, United States politicians and officials are predictably claiming that mass surveillance of citizens is the solution to terrorism. Former CIA director
Even though US-ally Saudi Arabia just condemned the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, it is still quick to enforce its own draconian anti-freedom of speech laws.
US-ally Saudi Arabia flogs liberal activist Raif Badawi in public Friday near a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, receiving 50 lashes for "insulting Islam," witnesses said. Badawi, 30, was arrested in June 2012 and charged with offenses ranging from cyber crime to disobeying his father and apostasy, or abandoning his faith. He was
Two or more perpetrators being sought after slaying workers at Charlie Hebdo, a newspaper known for satire that has been targeted with violence in the past for its irreverent coverage of religious figures.
People pay tribute to the victims of the satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo", in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, a day after masked gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper and killed 12 people. AP Photo:Claude Paris/AP Twelve people are reportedly dead, with others wounded, after two gunmen stormed the offices