Michel Collon
Michel Collon | |
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 Michel Collon. | |
| Born | 1946 Ixelles, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation(s) | critic, journalist, publicist, writer |
Michel Collon is a Belgian writer, and journalist for the magazine of the Marxist Workers' Party of Belgium and for his own website Investig’Action.
Biography
[edit]Michel Collon started his career in the Belgian weekly Solidaire. He continued his work independently by writing books, making films and an Internet newsletter broadcast to 40 000 subscribers.[citation needed] He is affiliated with the Workers Party of Belgium, and has organised a network of civil observers in Yugoslavia and in Iraq. He took part in the anti-imperialist conference Axis for Peace.[1]
Michel Collon denounced the misuse by Dalai Lama of a photograph that implied Chinese soldiers had dressed up as Buddhist monks and had provoked the 2008 Tibetan unrest.[2] According to the Los Angeles Times, this photograph was taken from the Michelle Yeoh film The Touch, which was filmed in Lhassa between 2001 & 2002.[3]
Propaganda disclosures
[edit]He built his reputation through the promotion of complotist and red-green-brown theories.[4][5][6][7]
Collon and some of his friends are also strong advocates of Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki. [8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Le colloque pour la paix dans le monde, les 17 et 18 novembre 2005, sur le site www.axisforpeace.net (page « Les participants ».
- ^ Published in Le Quotidien du peuple on 3 April 2008 : « Enquête sur une photo manipulée »
- ^ Photo of Chinese forces with monks' robes proves illusory
- ^ Christine Rousseau, TV – « Complotisme, les alibis de la terreur », Le Monde, 23 January 2018.
- ^ Marion David, J’ai discuté avec le père des « médiamensonges », L'Obs, January 1, 2016.
- ^ Catherine Gouëset, La Syrie, terre de mission des conspirationnistes, L'Express, 6 september 2013.
- ^ Marc Jacquemain and Jérôme Jamin, L’histoire que nous faisons - Contre les théories de la manipulation, Éditions du Centre d’Action Laïque, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 33-34.
- ^ Collon: Eritrea needs protection. Tesfanews, 2 August 2015
External links
[edit]- Official website (in French)
- Official website (in English)
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