March 2008
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Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008
Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life William Blum www.killinghope.org Propaganda as an Olympic competition The latest protests in Tibet and crackdown by Chinese authorities have brought up the usual sermonizing in the West about Chinese government oppression and illegitimate control of the Continue reading
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Rumours of War by William Bowles
21 March 2008 Destabilisation is the name of the ‘game’ “We are not in Iraq to engage in nation-building — our mission is to help Iraqis so that they can build their own nation.” — Donald H. Rumsfeld, Washington Post, September 25 2003. It seems to be a common—but in my view, mistaken—assumption by the Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ISRAELI DEATHS MATTER MORE March 11, 2008
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media The horrific shooting of eight young people at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday was followed by saturation media coverage. International statesmen lined up with condemnations of the attack and condolences for the victims and their families. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced: “This Continue reading
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AFRICOM News and Information 1-4 March 2008
4/3/08 State Department Disperses Funds to the Wrong Country By GI I have been regularly providing updates on Forward Deployed about the development of the US military’s AFRICOM and now it appears the command may be needed more then ever:. Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked US State Dept. … forwarddeployed.com/2008/03/04/state-department-disperses-funds-to-the-wrong-country/ Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media March 3, 2008 Attacking The Prisoners Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the ‘prison’ of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and ‘incursions’ Continue reading