June 15, 2009
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Media Lens: The Guardian, Climate And Advertising – An Open Email To George Monbiot
Why do you, George Monbiot (and others at the Guardian) not simply challenge the false picture of the world generated by the advertisers in your newspaper? This avoids the problem, which you deem “inescapable”, of running a newspaper without advertising. Why do you not write articles exposing named campaigns by named advertisers that appear in… Continue reading
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Scary movie by William Bowles
Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Russia, ‘Swine Flu’, China, ‘al-Qu’eda’, terrorism, crooked MPs, there’s no shortage of suitable subjects with which to scare the kids. The headlines come and the headlines go in an endless parade of impending doom and threats that the end of ‘civilization’ is just around the corner. Continue reading
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South African Political Power Balance Shifts Left – Though Not Yet Enough to Quell Grassroots Anger By Patrick Bond
Since the early 1990s, neoliberal policies have made SA economically more vulnerable than at any time since 1929. If five major currency crashes since 1996 were not evidence enough, the 6.4% quarterly GDP decline for early 2009 was the worst since 1984. By late 2008 it was apparent that labour would suffer vast retrenchments, what… Continue reading
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41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11
Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified… Continue reading
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Team Obama/Cult Obama By Bill Blum
I could go through the talk Obama gave in Cairo and point out line by line the hypocrisies, the mere platitudes, the plain nonsense, and the rest. (“I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.” — No mention of it being outsourced, probably to the very country he was speaking in,… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 70 The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat
On May 12, in New York City, a debate was held on the proposition that ‘Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere’ (English translation: ‘Should we bomb Iran?’). Arguing in the affirmative, were Liz Cheney, former State Department official (and daughter of a certain unindicted war criminal) and Dan Senor, formerly the top spokesman for Washington’s… Continue reading
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New Profile: Israel – Investigating the Investigation
The philosopher, Michel Foucault, dwelt in his writings on the consciousness developed by the hypothetical inmate of an eight-sided prison – a “panopticon”. Within such a structure, every prisoner is exposed to the jailer’s gaze in every corner of his or her cell. The jailer, who ostensibly watches the prisoners all day, every day, is… Continue reading
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Video ‘Inside Iraq’: Lessons from Iraq’s nuclear quest
Iran’s nuclear programme may be of concern to much of the international community today, but what can world leaders learn from Iraq’s quest to acquire nuclear weapons? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 