VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 27 January 2014: Colonial Partners in Israel’s Crimes

27 January 2014 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Soldiers Demolish Three Homes In Jerusalem
IMEMC – [Monday Morning, January 27, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Al-Eesawiyya neighborhood and Beit Hanina town, in occupied Jerusalem, and demolished three Palestinian homes. …
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Media Disinformation: What’s Really Going On in Ukraine? By Andy Dilks

28 January 2014 — Global Research

You’d be forgiven for knowing very little about the unrest in Ukraine – the violence, the rioting on the streets, the armed protesters storming government buildings amidst plumes of thick black smoke rising from makeshift barricades. Most of the public have once again been Beibered by the mainstream media – the arrest of this precocious, spoilt physical embodiment of crass corporate culture proving newsworthy enough for an MSNBC host to interrupt an interview with a member of Congress discussing the true scale of NSA spying.

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Media Lens: Propaganda: ‘The Dominant Grand Narrative Of Our Time’ By David Cromwell

28 January 2014 — Media Lens

‘Propaganda’ sounds like an old-fashioned word from a bygone era. It evokes images of the Nazis in WW2, particularly Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, or Soviet leaders in the Cold War and dictators in ‘Third World’ countries. Propaganda is something spewed out by official enemies of the West, and surely not a vile practice indulged by ‘our’ politicians and business leaders. This is a convenient illusion that serves powerful Western elites very well indeed.

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