Talk:Voltaire Network

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Réseau Voltaire is the french name. Please change as Voltaire Network.

No reason to translate the name. It is the name of an organisation. Rama 20:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] npov tag

i added an npov tag because this article seems to greatly distort the reality of this organization. i don't really know what the truth behind this org is, but it seems pretty clear to me that it's quite fringy. this isn't reflected much at all in the text, except for the reference to their conspiracy-theory claims regarding 9/11. if you look at something like [[1]] you can obviously see their fringy nature, e.g. the very first sentence "Freedom House, a propaganda machine created by Roosevelt to prepare the US public opinion for war ..." and bizarre footnotes like "[9] Paul Wolfowitz himself is a Trotskyite". (i would guess from this footnote that voltaire network is communist since no one else goes around accusing people of being "trotskyites", but i really have no idea.) Benwing 07:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

No, in fact they are somehow loosely related to Larouche.

You win the Understatement of the Day Award for "quite fringy". :) Rama 14:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the neocon-Trotskyite connection is quite real. Many Trotskyites became neoconservatives later on in life, for example Christopher Hitchens. Coconuteire 00:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

It is more complex than that. The Voltaire Network has changed a lot since its creation, as, for that matter, Thierry Meyssan, who now frequents far-right movements. But the Voltaire Network was originally an anti-fascist, republican organization, which had nothing fringy. Tazmaniacs

[edit] No of languages

available in eight languages (French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Italian) -- I am counting seven there. :-) Krankman 22:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Alright, found the 8th one, fixed it. Krankman 22:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)