31 May, 2012 — Media Lens
The appalling massacre of 108 people, including 49 children, in Houla, Syria, dominated the Independent on Sunday’s latest front cover. Above a few short lines of commentary the banner headline read: Continue reading
Month: May 2012
WikiLeaks under threat: Assange extradition judgement tomorrow
29 May 2012 — WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
State of play of attacks against WikiLeaks to date Tuesday May 29, 2012 20:30 GMT
Summary
US GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON WIKILEAKS
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Anatoly S. Chernayev Diary, 1972
25 May 2012 — National Security Archive
Soviet government official Anatoly Chernyaev records an insider’s view of the Brezhnev era
The Greek affair: Symbol of the crisis of the European Union or paradigm of Europe’s salvation By Gaither Stewart
23 May 2012
It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the worst, as the symbol of the threat to the collapse of the West European society.
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Media Lens: A Private Conversation – The Leveson Inquiry, Corporate Journalism And Elite Collusion
23 May, 2012 — Media Lens
Advertising revenue is almost the life-blood of the press. Although the figure has fallen in recent years, today it constitutes around 60 per cent of newspapers’ total income, including ‘quality’ titles like the Guardian and the Independent.
Media Lens: Good Rockets, Bad Rockets – BBC Bias On India And North Korea
16 May, 2012 — Media Lens
In the space of one week last month, the BBC offered an opportunity to compare its reporting on two nuclear powers: India, an ally of the British government; and North Korea, an official enemy.
Not Letting The Facts Get In The Way of A Vicious Attack Against Candidates and Whistle Blowers By Danny Schechter
22 May 2012 — The News Dissector
Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often-invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts and their interpretation.
GR Week in Review 16 May 2012: War on Islam, Bush Guilty of War Crimes and the Missing Terrorists
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Black Agenda Report 16 May 2012: Black Agenda Report – Obama's Gay Gambit / Death By Wall St. / Phantom Issues
16 May 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left
Obama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonThe president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior for human rights, any more than Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize makes him Mahatma Gandhi.
Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 May 2012
12 May 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Was Industrial Sabotage at Play with Super Jet crash in Indonesia?
12.05.2012 | 07:26 | Wayne MADSEN
Based on past aggressive competitive commercial tactics employed by the alliance of American corporations, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Pentagon, aviation experts in Asia are wondering aloud whether the recent crash of the new Sukhoi Super Jet 100 in Indonesia was the result of high-stakes industrial sabotage engineered to protect Boeing’s lucrative commercial and military aviation market in Asia at the expense of a resurgent Russian aviation industry…
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee Camp
IMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program to upgrade UN refugee camps’ dilapidated facilities. …
Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 May 2012: Nuke Mecca: US Military Teaches Officers
11 May 2012 — Information Clearing House
“U.S. Military Taught Officers:
Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,”
By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
“The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists”
