May 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 May 25-31 2005
31 May 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 May 25-31 2005 br>Date: Tues, 31 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Manufactured Consensus – The Sun and Saddam Hussein
Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers. The British military, it was claimed, now possessed incontrovertible proof that the pictures were fake. Mirror editor, Piers Morgan – a fierce opponent of the war… Continue reading
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The crime against humanity that is the state of Israel. Is there no end? by William Bowles
Every day I get flooded with news, appeals, analysis and background on the crime against humanity that is the state of Israel, but as far as the West is concerned, the daily atrocities being committed against the people of Palestine are non-events. Were such crimes being committed by virtually any country other than Israel, the… Continue reading
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Why I’m still a lefty or the rake’s progress by William Bowles
I’ve come to the conclusion that the UK exists in some kind of parallel universe, outside of normal space and time. A medieval bubble of a place, where ‘tradition’ has replace reason, where animals engender more concern than people. A place where mediocrity rules and which appears to be hurtling back into the past at… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 May 20-24 2005
24 May 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 May 20-24 2005 Date: TUES, 24 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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The British (State) Broadcasting Corporation – A Coalition of the Killing? by William Bowles
On May 23, we had an entire day without the BBC’s blanket non-coverage of important events due to a strike by the three main unions over threatened redundancies. A blessing in disguise? Well maybe… And if I may strike a totally au contraire view of the BBC’s plans for the future, perhaps laying off a… Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC still Ignoring Evidence of War Crimes in Iraq
An earlier media alert, ‘Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah’ (April 18, 2005; www.medialens.org/alerts/05/050418_doubt_cast_on_bbc.php) noted that Boaden’s Newswatch article failed to address the many specific and detailed allegations of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. Moreover, statements made to us by Human Rights Watch had cast doubt on… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 May 12-15 2005
15 May 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 May 12-15 2005 Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 May 16-19 2005
19 May 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 May 16-19 2005 Date: Thurs, 19 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 May 2005 (18/05)
19 May 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: SIS II fait accompli? Construction of EU’s Big Brother database underway 2. EU: From the SIS to SIS II and the Visa Information (VIS): the proposals explained 3. Denmark: Greenpeace charged under anti-terror laws 4. European Commission: Technical Mission to Libya on illegal immigration Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC Still Silent on Fallujah
The BBC relentlessly proclaims its commitment to “providing trusted and impartial news and information that helps citizens make sense of the world” (Letter from BBC chairman Michael Grade to David Cromwell, 21 March, 2005). Such grandiose statements are delivered as if on tablets of stone, to be received with gratitude by the multitudes. Thus, Grade… Continue reading
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Uzbekistan: They speak with forked tongue by William Bowles
The BBC, whose name should be changed perhaps to the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation, has behaved absolutely despicably, censoring any opinion that contradicts that of the official British and US line on their dealings with the Karimov dictatorship. Continue reading
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The media’s complicity in suppressing the reality that is Haiti today By William Bowles
Whilst the world rushed to the aid of the victims of the Tsunami and the leaders of the ‘free world’ pontificated on how humanitarian they are, children, in all likelihood, hundreds of children are being exterminated by death squads, aided and abetted by US/UN occupation forces in Haiti. But if you wanted to find out… Continue reading
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(S)Peaking of oil… again ‘Peak oil’ – Newsspeak for ‘too many poor people’ By William Bowles
Amen to Mr Simmons’ ‘predictions’. Once more I find myself returning to the subject of ‘peak oil’ as it seems that a good deal of the ‘left’, alongside all the usual suspects are peddling this Peak Oil nonsense. It seems the output of ‘peak oil’ articles is actually outstripping the output of oil. We have… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 May 8-11 2005
11 May 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 May 8-11 2005 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 May 2005 (18/05)
10 May 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. JOURNALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM Special report by the International Federation of Journalists and Statewatch 2. EU: Role of new Internal Security Committee being decided by the Council – in secret 3. EU: European Commission: “The Hague Programme: Ten priorities for the Continue reading
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The Law of the Jungle – New Labour’s Version by William Bowles
There could be no clearer example of the return to the age of imperialism than Cooper’s statement above, taken from an essay published in April 2002. Cooper, a former Foreign Office official was, and no doubt still is, one of Blair’s chief ideological advisors (Cooper was based in Afghanistan, then Iraq and then back in… Continue reading
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The Case of Kamel Bourgass: The sound of one hand clapping or a conspiracy of one by William Bowles
Kamel BourgassPerhaps the most difficult thing for your ‘average’ citizen to take in is the idea that your government would deliberately lie and deceive you over a thing like terrorism. After all, the state is meant to protect its citizens, isn’t that why we have a raft of laws and an incredibly expensive enforcement system… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 May 1-6 2005
6 May 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 May 1-6 2005 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
The New Dark Age 