March 20, 2006
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Media Lens: Disappearing Genocide – The Media And The Death Of Slobodan Milosevic
20 March 2006 — Media Lens “If we don’t know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But if we know some history, if we know how many times presidents have lied to us, we will not be fooled again.” (Howard Zinn, historian) Continue reading
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Imperial Manoeuvres By William Bowles
History is a powerful weapon, perhaps that’s why they don’t teach it at school in the UK (except for the UK’s bizarre obsession with WWII, but then again it makes sense if you want to impart a sense of Britain’s former ‘greatness’ and what better propaganda weapon than our victorious struggle against the evil ‘Hun’). Continue reading