I'm not sure how this community feels about Chris Hedges. He has published a powerful piece on Truthdig.com about the Charlie Hebdo attacks that I think deserves to be read and debated here. The piece deserves to be read in full, but you can get a sense of where Hedges is heading by his first paragraph:
The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was not about free speech. It was not about radical Islam. It did not illustrate the fictitious clash of civilizations. It was a harbinger of an emerging dystopia where the wretched of the earth, deprived of resources to survive, devoid of hope, brutally controlled, belittled and mocked by the privileged who live in the splendor and indolence of the industrial West, lash out in nihilistic fury.Hedges re-frames and re-centers the Charlie Hebdo attacks in a way that I have not seen done here.