September 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 29-30 September 2005
30 September 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 29-30 September 2005 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 September 2005 (34/05)
28 September 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: The UK presidency has drawn up draft Council conclusions on regional protection 2. EU: Terrorist recruitment: a Commission’s Communication 3. EU: Civil society letter to MEPs on data retention proposals 4. EU: Final text of the European Commission proposals on the mandatory retention 5. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 22-28 September 2005
28 September 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 22-28 September 2005 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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‘Green slime’ invades Iraq By William Bowles
THERE’S a phrase set aside in the British army for men like Brigadier Gordon Kerr and it’s “Green Slime’’. Soldiers don’t mince words, and to regular squaddies and military brass, Kerr and his Intelligence Corps are on roughly the same level as pond life. Highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Immediate Withdrawal from Iraq – The Guardian Blanks Public Opinion
We do not know whether Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote yesterday’s leader on “Britain’s post-invasion commitment to Iraq”, but we assume that he approved it. (’Signposting the Exit,’ The Guardian, September 21, 2005) “No one is arguing for an immediate pull-out”, the editorial claims. Presumably those calling for an immediate withdrawal, including many in the… Continue reading
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Iraq: Agents Provocateurs? By William Bowles
Fascinating. No really, the ‘evolution’ of state disinformation has probably never been better displayed than in the case of the two (more than likely) SAS soldiers who were ‘liberated’ after being arrested by the Iraqi police on 19 September by a phalanx of tanks and helicopter gunships that stormed the police station where the two… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 17-21 September 2005
21 September 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 17-21 September 2005 Date: 21 September 2005 Charge Him or Release Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 12-16 September 2005
16 September 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 12-16 September 2005 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 September 2005 (33/05)
15 September 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Data protection and data retention proposals: full-text 2. Council of Europe report on use of biometrics 3. Schengen: Joint Supervisory Authority (JSA) report on the use of Article 96 “alerts” 4. SIS-Denmark: Danish Data Protection Agency letler on Article 96 “alerts” 5. EU Presidency: Continue reading
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The Gulf of Disbelief By William Bowles
Aside from everything else Hurricane Katrina has blown away it’s also ripped off the mask that covers the real face of corporate capitalism and reveals the stark reality that the US government has as little regard for its own ‘citizens’ as it does for those of Iraq or Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burying The Lancet – Update
In our Media Alert, Burying The Lancet – Parts 1 And 2 (September 5 and 6), we focused on the media response to a November 2004 report in The Lancet which estimated nearly 100,000 excess civilians deaths in Iraq since the March 2003 US-UK invasion. Continue reading
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The lull before the storm By William Bowles
Piper persuaded me to accompany him on a trip on a deep-sea trawler out of Hull, ostensibly to produce the illustrations for a book he’d written on his life as a deep-sea trawlerman. Not an experience I’m ever likely to forget and one which at times filled me with sheer terror, not to mention three… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burying the Lancet – Part 2
In our analysis we found that in both the US and the British press, news reports initially presented the estimates of 100,000 deaths in Iraq and 1.7 million deaths in Congo without critical comment. The difference lies in the days, weeks and months that followed. Whereas the Congo figures and methodology were accepted without challenge,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burying the Lancet – Part 1
As a test of the independence and honesty of the mass media, few tasks are more revealing than that of reporting our own government’s responsibility for the killing of innocents abroad. In an age of ’converged’ political parties and globalised corporate influence, few establishment groups have any interest in seeing such horrors exposed, while many… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 1-5 September 2005
5 September 2018 — 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 1-5 September 2005 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Cheerleading the Climate Criminals – Part 2
The Independent – like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials – noted blandly in a recent editorial that “Global warming is given little coverage by the US media.” (Leader, ‘The American consensus of denial is crumbling,’ August 19, 2005). True enough. But look at our own doorstep; at the wholly inadequate coverage of… Continue reading
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Some after thoughts on Hurricane Bush and a possible ‘end of days’ scenario By William Bowles
2 September 2005 Had a long conversation with a pal of mine last night about why exactly, the US seems unconcerned about global warming and what, in all likelihood is the imminent climate catastrophe, which I think is worth sharing with readers. Now I’m not saying I necessarily agree with his conclusions but I have Continue reading
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Media Lens: Cheerleading the Climate Criminals – Part 1
Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world’s largest frozen peat bog, comprising an area the size of France and Germany combined, was melting. According to researchers who have been studying the permafrost of western Serbia, the bog could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas twenty times as… Continue reading
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Hurricane Bush hits America By William Bowles
Nothing, I think illustrates the insanity of the ‘war on terror’ than the aftermath of the hurricane that hit the Gulf states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 