February 25, 2010
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WAR AS PR – OPERATION MOSHTARAK, MEANING “TOGETHER”
Idiocy is one thing, but the BBC’s idiocy all went one way – no journalist swooned with comparable helplessness at the feet of experts excoriating US-UK propaganda. As news of Sambrook’s move arrived, his former colleagues at the BBC were once again deferring to the “intelligent”, “thoughtful”, “sceptical” American and British politicians hawking the public… Continue reading
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ICH 24 February, 2010: Explosive News
Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace By BRIAN KNOWLTON Mr. Gates’s blunt comments came just three days after the coalition government of the Netherlands collapsed in a dispute over keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan. It now appears almost certain that most of the 2,000 Dutch troops there will be withdrawn this year. And Continue reading
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Round Midnight — tortillas and the corporate state By Joe Bageant
There is a terrible science fiction-like awe in the autonomous American economic monolith, in the way that it provides for us, feeds on us and keeps us as its both its lavish pets and slaves. The commodity economy long ago enslaved Americans and other “developed” capitalist societies, especially Americans. The most profound slavery must be… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 February, 2010
An excellent and comprehensive daily aggregation from a wide range of sources on the situation in Palestine/Israel and the Middle East Continue reading
The New Dark Age 