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Scoop Coverage: The Charlie Hebdo Killings And Response

Gordon Campbell: On The Charlie Hebdo Killings And Response

Now that the Kouachi brothers have made their Butch-and-Sundance dash for martyrdom, and now that the millions have marched in Paris and elsewhere to defend the Republic…. the events of the past week remain no closer to any comforting resolution. Some have found something repugnant about the attempt to impose a tidy rationalism...

Even so, a tough-minded soul sickness about the violent ways of the world also seems like a pretty hollow response, especially from those – speaking for myself – whose experience of violent death in combat is limited to what they’ve seen on movie screens and the printed page More>>

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Paris March: Reporters Without Borders Condemns Presence Of “Predators”
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the participation of many foreign leaders in today’s march in Paris in homage to the victims of last week’s terror attacks and in defence of the French republic’s values, but is outraged by the presence of officials from countries that restrict freedom of information... More>>

Connie Lawn: Je Suis Charlie – I Am Charlie
“I am Charlie.” This is the new rallying cry of many who stand up for press freedom and who support the French people. France did not deserve the ruthless, deadly attack on the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo.” Journalists and political cartoonists do not deserve to be shot, tortured, or beheaded for doing their jobs and highlighting the evils of extremists all over the world. More>>

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