March 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 March 8-11 2005
11 March 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 March 8-11 2005 Date:Fri, 12 Mar 2005 The Rendering U.S. knowingly Continue reading
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Media Lens: Every Bloodbath Has A Silver Lining – Part 2
We wrote to Jonathan Freedland about his article, “The war’s silver lining”, and asked him: “Are you not, here, celebrating the efficacy of state terrorism as a political tool? Is Damascus not literally terrorised by what it has seen in Iraq?” Continue reading
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Re “Terrorist Related Activity” By William Bowles
What is amazing about the Zarqawi saga is how, over time, Western governments (with the able assistance of the media) have managed to keep the pot boiling regarding a man whose existence is far from actually being established as fact (although of late, he, along with Osama seems to have fallen off the front page,… Continue reading
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Chinese Whispers by Edward Teague
10 March 2005 Taiwan’s defense minister Lee Jye said up to 800 missiles would be targetted at them last week. China has 700 ballistic missiles deployed opposite Taiwan, “The number is estimated to increase to 800 next year,” Lee warned in a call for support of a new 480 Bn Taiwan dollar (15.24 billion US) arms Continue reading
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The Unspeakable in Pursuit By Edward Teague
9 March 2005 — The New Dark Age The 7th and current The Earl of Onslow, brother in law of the much lamented Auberon Waugh, is an unblushing Tory, and is the only hereditary peer to have appeared as a panellist on Have I Got News for You. He unashamedly enjoys hunting foxes and all Continue reading
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Media Lens: Every Bloodbath Has A Silver Lining – Part 1
9 March 2005 — Media Lens The Sting – You’re Next In a remarkable article in last week’s Guardian entitled, “The war’s silver lining”, Jonathan Freedland wrote: Continue reading
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The BBC Photoshop’s the news By William Bowles
I have been following BBC coverage on both the World Service and BBC Radio 4 as well as the BBC Website over the past few days of the shooting death of the Italian secret serviceman and the wounding of the freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. The discrepancy between eyewitness accounts of the event and the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 March 1-7 2005
7 March 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 March 1-7 2005 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 U.S. Citizen Jose Continue reading
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No slow boats to China anymore By Edward Teague
6 March 2005 — The New Dark Age The China Shipping Group was founded on July 1,1997, in Shanghai. It is one of the 44 key state-owned enterprises under the direct administration of the government, but also has two publicly listed companies, China Shipping Development and China Shipping (Hainan) Haisheng, whose H shares and A Continue reading
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Privatising Propaganda By William Bowles
The use of PR companies and ‘NGOs’ by the US government to ‘sell’ its foreign policy goes back a long way but it was the invasion of Grenada under Reagan when we witnessed a ‘test run’ of the idea and the technique really came into its own during Gulf War 2 in 1991 when the… Continue reading
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Oil. Big Profits. Big changes? By Edward Teague
5 March 2005 — The New Dark Age Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), buoyed by record oil prices, became (by market capitalisation, $411BN Shares at $64) the largest company in the world. They have taken No1 place from General Electric (NYSE:GE) whose Market Capitalisation is today, $382 BN Exxon Mobil also claim to be the largest oil Continue reading
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Media Lens: Is the Earth Really Finished? Countering Despair with the Momentum of Hope
At such a desperate moment in the planet’s history, we could simply throw up our hands in despair, or we could try to reduce the likelihood of the worst predictions coming true. The corporate media has yet to examine its own role in setting up huge obstacles to the latter option of hope. Continue reading
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From Word Play to Gun Play:The legitimacy of the state’s right to rule By William Bowles
Many on the ‘left’ may dismiss the arguments surrounding the ‘legal’ basis that underpins the obviously (to me and most of the planet) illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq as no more than a lot of hot air and obfuscation, preferring to take the ‘political’ road to judgement. But it is the ability of the… Continue reading
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New Labour puts the National into Socialism by Edward Teague
1 March 2005 — The New Dark Age “Bush/Blair…we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values…” – Project for the New American Century June 3rd 1997 “I explained to the Prime Minister that the policy of my government is the removal of Saddam and Continue reading
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