Star Paris reporting

Good reports on French riots in the Toronto Star today. This pretty good story is a concise and necessary take on immigration history, which acknowledges the previous success of France's model before fucking it all up with the North and sub-Saharan African immigrants. But it also refers to an intifada, which completely misses the point.

Object lesson: buzzwords, which are often misleading, should be handled with care. Obviously.

For a corrective, which points to the primary economic aspects of integration, see Haroon Siddiqui's excellent piece - tightly argued.

Also, a classic wire story on the predictable barbarism of the resurgent extreme right - Le Pen et al.

And, most challenging, a longer, older piece about the misery of living in the suburbs that wasn't whipped up in 4 hours go next to a picture of burning cars.