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Review: Kevin Barrett (ed.), We Are Not Charlie Hebdo: Free Thinkers Question the French 9/11 (2015)

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Another hopeful sign recently was Pope Francis's invitation to Naomi Klein to the Vatican to address their solidarity on the common cause of the two main world problems, poverty and environmental degradation. They are the direct result of capitalism, say both Pope and Klein (the Pope cited St. Basil of Caesarea description of capitalism as the dung of the devil) , requiring not just prayers, but collective efforts to transform our economic system.

Barrett's book provides a depressing scenario with much truth behind it. All the problems of violence are not directly due to the CIA et al, but they have been abetting them for decades. Kudos to Barrett for collecting various false-flag hypotheses and the words of leading scholar-activists.

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