Michel Collon
{{Short description|Belgian red-brown stalinist writer}}
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Michel Collon is a Belgian writer, and journalist for the magazine of the Workers' Party of Belgium and for his own website Investig’Action.
Biography
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|date=October 2021}} 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.[https://archive.today/20130703043958/http://www.axisforpeace.net/rubrique3.html Le colloque pour la paix dans le monde, les 17 et 18 novembre 2005], sur le site www.axisforpeace.net (page « Les participants ».
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.Published in Le Quotidien du peuple on 3 April 2008 : [http://french.peopledaily.com.cn/vdl/vdl/6386235.html « Enquête sur une photo manipulée »] 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.[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-monks30apr30,0,1096049.story Photo of Chinese forces with monks' robes proves illusory]
Various commentators consider that Collon has been promoting conspiracy theoriesChristine Rousseau, [https://www.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2018/01/23/tv-complotisme-les-alibis-de-la-terreur_5245927_1655027.html TV – « Complotisme, les alibis de la terreur »], Le Monde, 23 January 2018.Marion David, [https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-nos-vies-connectees/20151231.RUE1779/j-ai-discute-avec-le-pere-des-mediamensonges.html J’ai discuté avec le père des « médiamensonges »], L'Obs, 1 January 2016.Catherine Gouëset, [https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-moyen-orient/la-syrie-terre-de-mission-des-conspirationnistes_1279058.html La Syrie, terre de mission des conspirationnistes], L'Express, 6 september 2013. or alternative theories in his presentation of international politics.Marc Jacquemain and Jérôme Jamin, [http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/33773/1/L%27histoire%20que%20nous%20faisons.pdf L’histoire que nous faisons – Contre les théories de la manipulation], Éditions du Centre d’Action Laïque, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 33–34.
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.investigaction.net/fr }} {{in lang|fr}}
- {{official website|http://www.investigaction.net/en}} {{in lang|en}}
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Category:Belgian political journalists
Category:Anti-globalization activists