August 28, 2015
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Media Lens: ‘Bullying’ – BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment
The BBC’s Nick Robinson has made a career out of telling the public what leading politicians say and do; sometimes even what they ‘think’. This stenography plays a key role in ‘the mainstream media’, given that a vital part of statecraft is to keep the public suitably cowed and fearful of threats from which governments… Continue reading
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Purge of Jeremy Corbyn Voters Unmasks Britain’s Labour Party By Jonathan Cook
If Corbyn wins, it would be the first time in living memory that the UK has had a Labour leader who is actually of the left. It is a prospect terrifying our supposedly liberal media, including the BBC and most of the Guardian’s senior staff, from Polly Toynbee to Jonathan Freedland. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 27 August 2015: #FightForDyett Hunger Strike in Chicago, Katrina, Logic of Genocide, Bernie Sanders
287 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago’s Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves. Organizing, Continue reading
The New Dark Age 