February 2005
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The BBC: premier propagandist for the imperium By William Bowles
So whilst all 299 BBC stories (over 300,000 words in total) that mention Zarqawi hold not a single piece of evidence as to his real as opposed to alleged role in Iraq (or anywhere else for that matter), the overall impression created by the BBC’s coverage forms an integral part of an intensive state-led propaganda… Continue reading
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The Alien Amongst Us By William Bowles
In the run-up to WWII, the same racist propaganda was rolled out designed to pit people against people (”Why the little yellow bastards!” Time Magazine 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbour) and so too with the Cold War rhetoric whether it was the “yellow hordes” of China or those “commie bastards” or indeed “Islamic… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Priorities of Power – The Real Meaning Of Elections In Iraq
In truth it is quite wrong to describe the corporate media as ‘mainstream’. We wouldn’t describe Flat Earthism as mainstream geology, nor would we describe Mein Kampf as mainstream political philosophy. There isn’t a cultural or philosophical tradition on the planet that takes seriously the idea that truth-telling can be reconciled with greed. The idea… Continue reading
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Enraptured By William Bowles
7 February 2005 In an essay by Bill Moyers (’There is no tomorrow’)[1], ‘doyen’ of what passes for the ‘liberal’ media in the US, we read the following: In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index. That’s right – the rapture index. Google it Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 February 1-6 2005
6 January 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest February 1-6 2005 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 === How I Continue reading
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Caspian on the Cusp? Puzzling reports of death of Georgia PM by Edward Teague
4 February 2005— The New Dark Age NOTICEABLE COOPERATION Robert Kocharyan has today received the delegation headed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Lujkov. President expressed satisfaction with the Armenian-Russian cooperation. Moscow Mayor said that he was impressed by the constructive changes made in Yerevan. During the meeting the parts discussed the potential of increasing export-import by Continue reading
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Media Lens: Silence is Green: The Green Movement And The Corporate Mass Media
It is one of the great ironies of our time that, as evidence of environmental catastrophe has inexorably mounted, so the visibility of radical environmental movements has collapsed. In the late 1980s, public outrage at environmental devastation propelled the likes of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Green Party onto the media stage. With… Continue reading
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‘Little boxes, little boxes … they’re all made out of ticky-tack’ By William Bowles
Without endless ‘innovation’, that is the creation of ‘new’ products, capitalist production stagnates, or more precisely, markets get saturated and the rate of profit falls, production stagnates except for a diminishing demand for replacement. Hence the need to create ‘new’ products, more often than not essentially the same product but with ‘additions’, what we euphemistically… Continue reading
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