Jade Lindgaard
Jade Lindgaard is a journalist for the news site Mediapart, and she coedited La France Invisible, with Stéphane Beaud and Joseph Confavreux (2006).Blog
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, a friend to Israel
Al Jazeera posted an excerpt from The Impostor: BHL in Wonderland, highlighting that when Bernard-Henri Lévy involves himself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is as a propagandist for the Jewish state.
A review of the major causes Bernard-Henri Lévy has embraced over the past 30 years reveals that behind an apparently dissident discourse, he has consistently taken the side of established authorities. When he involves himself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is as a propagandist for the Jewish State, as reveals this excerpt.
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"I'm James Bond, you're Superman" - BHL head to head with Žižek
Berfois have published an excerpt from the latest in the Counterblasts series, The Imposter: BHL in Wonderland by Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte, a stinging takedown of Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's "rock-star philosopher."
Watch BHL debate Slavoj Žižek in 2008. They go head to head on the subject of 'Violence and the Left in Dark Times' at the New York Public Library.
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Win the complete Counterblasts series and more! - competition now closed
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HOW TO ENTER: Those in North America, email verso@versobooks.com. For the rest of the world, including the UK, email enquiries@verso.co.uk. Please put COUNTERBLASTS COMPETITION in the subject line or your entry may not be counted. The winners will be announced on Tuesday 10th April.
Can truth really be stranger than fiction? If anyone can answer that question definitively, it is Thomas Friedman, who occupies pride of place in the Counterblasts series in The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belén Fernández.
Starting today, to celebrate the publication of Verso's new Counterblasts series, we will be posting three quotations every day relating to each of these three neoliberal defenders of empire and capital. All you need to do is spot the real one from among the fakes.
The prize is the full set of Counterblasts - Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil? by Derrick O'Keefe, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belén Fernández and The Impostor: BHL in Wonderland by Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte - AND Britain's Empire by Richard Gott and Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo.
