December 2005
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An old year’s tale By William Bowles
29 December 2005 It’s true: the 20th century is yesterday’s story and unfortunately, most of us are still living in it. Especially, the left. As to the ruling elite, they don’t care what century it is, as long as they rule in it. But it is the problem for most of us on the left, Continue reading
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Media Lens: Guardians of Power By Gabriele Zamparini
21 December 2005 — Media Lens Exclusive interview with Media Lens’ editors David Edwards and David Cromwell “Guardians of Power. The Myth of the Liberal Media” is a new book by David Edwards and David Cromwell, the two editors of Media Lens, an excellent watchdog “correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media”. According Continue reading
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Propaganda Review – Part II Das Kulture By William Bowles
I and a host of observers are fond of quoting the first of the self-conscious propagandists of our age, Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, but the fact is the reality we live in now is far more insidious and dangerous than the world according to Goebbels, his was a world of black and white, a… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 December 2005 (42/05)
15 December 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU-USA: Rendition and removing refugees raise the same issue – transit flights 2. EU: European Parliament votes in favour of “deal” on mandatory data retention 3. EU Presidencies of the Council of the European Union: 2006-2018 4. Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill 5. Council of Europe Continue reading
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Propaganda Review – from the ‘war against the ‘anti-Christ’ to the ‘war on terror’ By William Bowles
Reclaiming the public space that has been appropriated by the corporate class must figure highly on our agenda, for without it, we are at the mercy of Schiller‘s “concentrated accumulation of the productive equipment, the technological expertise, the marketing apparatus, the financial resources, and the managerial know-how” wielded by capitalism. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Insane Society – Climate Change, Advertising, And The Independent
Fromm concluded that modern Western society was indeed insane and that this insanity threatened the very survival of the human species. If this sounds extreme, consider the media response to the most terrifying threat of our time – global climate catastrophe. In 2004 a paper in the leading science journal Nature warned that, as a… Continue reading
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The Worm Ouroborus By William Bowles
It’s depressing to think on how many otherwise right-thinking people have bought into the ‘Peak Oil’ nonsense. We read for example, that of the over 60 known reserves in Iraq, only 17 have actually been exploited and it’s been calculated that the reserves far outstrip the currently exploited fields. Continue reading
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Ante Gotovina – A man with interesting friends in Virginia By Edward Teague
9 December 2005 — The New Dark Age Friday, December 9 Former Croat general Ante Gotovina, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was arrested in Spain yesterday, which set off riots in Zagreb among his nationalists supporters. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burning the Planet for Profit
Mass media, politics, the education system and other realms of public inquiry demonstrate a stunning capacity to focus on what does not really matter. Meanwhile, the truly vital issues receive scant attention to the point of invisibility: the parlous prospects for humanity’s survival and the root causes underlying the global environmental threat. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 December 2005 (41/05)
5 December 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Commission proposes compulsory registration of NGOs 2. EU: Two reports on Human Rights Proofing EU Legislation and Scrutiny of Subsidiarity 3. EU: More openness or just a drop in the ocean? The need for Freedom of Information in the EU 4. EU: Mandatory data Continue reading
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On the road to Damascus By William Bowles
Oil in the next war will occupy the place of coal in the present war, or at least a parallel place to coal. The only big potential supply that we can get under British control is the Persian and Mesopotamian supply .… Control over these oil supplies becomes a first class British war aim –… Continue reading
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