April 18, 2005
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Media Lens: Iraq and Zimbabwe – A Tale of Two Elections
In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous in celebrating the January 30 elections in Iraq as the country’s “first democratic elections in fifty years”. As we noted, this was an excellent example of how the corporate mass media function as a de facto propaganda system for state-corporate… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah
The BBC has again failed to address the many specific allegations we forwarded to them of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. We return to this point below. Continue reading
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Get with the programme! By William Bowles
Some (maybe many) people may regard me as a bit of hangover from the previous century, what with all my talk of Socialism, when it appears as if, at best, we are fighting a rearguard action against the forces of reaction. Yet I continue to trundle out my cries of outrage against the current order.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 