2 March, 2011 — Avaaz
In 24 hours, nearly half our commercial media could be owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Wow – 30,000 UK messages and phone calls to Parliament today and momentum building with hours left to go. Send a message and forward this on! Here’s the email — Continue reading
2 March 2011 — Stop NATO
2 March, 2011 — Avaaz
In 24 hours, nearly half our commercial media could be owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Wow – 30,000 UK messages and phone calls to Parliament today and momentum building with hours left to go. Send a message and forward this on! Here’s the email —
2 March, 2011 — Media Lens
Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), would be remembered above all for his humanity and warmth, were it not for the crystal clarity of his insight. In ‘A Power That Governments Can’t Suppress,’ he wrote:
‘There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.’ (Zinn, A Power That Governments Can’t Suppress, City Lights, 2007, p.267)
2 March 2011 — MRZine
Al Jazeera reports that Black African workers now live in fear in the rebel-held territories in Libya. Some of them have been attacked by mobs, others have been imprisoned, and some of their homes and workshops have been torched. “Many African workers say they felt safer under the Gaddafi regime,” says Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland, reporting from Benghazi.
Before this video report, there have already been warning signs: “Among the spray-painted graffiti in Beida, some denounce foreign workers and call Mr Qaddafi a Jew,” as noted by The Economist a week ago for instance.
“What we are looking at here,” says Rowland, “is the ugly face of the revolution.” Al Jazeera reports on this “ugly face” as if the channel had nothing to do with its emergence, chalking it up to “racism” that “when law and order break down . . . can rise to the surface.” However, it is none other than Al Jazeera, together with Western corporate media, that, conveying Libyan rebel testimonies without independently verifying their accuracy, has been working hard to spread the very rumors that it now pretends to deplore: “Eastern Libya is rife with rumors about African mercenaries brought in by Gaddafi to put down the uprising.”
If Al Jazeera now sees an ugly face in Libya, it is only looking at the face of a monster for whose birth it served as chief midwife, passing off a neoliberal pro-imperialist civic-military coup d’état against a neoliberal pro-imperialist regime — aka the sorriest of bourgeois faction fights — as a “revolution”1 and inciting people to join it. That is very clever of the Gulf Arab ruling classes, whose interests now clearly shape what Al Jazeera says and what it doesn’t say. There is certainly no better way to disfigure the Arab Revolt, which is now threatening them at home.
1 It will probably take some time before the rest of the Left catches on to the fraud perpetrated on us.
Yoshie Furuhashi is Editor of MRZine.
28 February, 2011 — Global Research
Last week the Guardian, Britain’s main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball” by the CIA. Eight years ago, Janabi played a key behind-the-scenes role — if an inadvertent one — in making possible the US invasion of Iraq. His testimony bolstered claims by the Bush administration that Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, had developed an advanced programme producing weapons of mass destruction.
March 1, 2011 — The Real News Network
TRNN EXCLUSIVE: Liberated Libya Rejects US Intervention
On the streets of liberated Benghazi people say no to McCain, Lieberman and any US intervention
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1 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House
‘US Builds Up Then Usurps Dictators’
By Press TV
For those of us old enough to remember the events of 1979 in Iran, this is a rerun of an old movie where America had frozen bank accounts that the Shah had left in America and never paid the money back.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27590.htm
28 February, 2011 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Jerusalem, Nablus roads blocked by Israeli settlers in protest against outpost removal
IMEMC – Tuesday March 01, 2011 – 03:35, Hundreds of Israeli settlers blocked the Nablus road in the northern West Bank, and dozens more tried to block a main road in Jerusalem on Monday, calling for the Israeli government to allow the expansion of a settlement colony located in the northern West Bank.
The New Dark Age 