March 2011 — Coldtype – Jonathan Cook
Given all the palaver around Corbyn’s alleged anti-semitic thoughts, I thought it well worth republishing Jonathan Cook’s excellent essay on the subject of Israel’s propaganda war, ‘Publish It Not!‘ (PDF).
‘How Israel controls the way the international ‘liberal’ media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it’
28 March 2018 — Media Lens
And then there was light.
But there must already have been space.
God would be hard-pressed to reach the light switch without space.
The light switch would be hard-pressed to exist.
In reality, only two possible impossibilities are conceivable among the many known unknowns:
– the universe flashed into existence from nothing, without a cause – impossible
- the universe has always existed, eternally, without a beginning – impossible.
The fact that both seem to be ‘nonsense’ suggests that our ‘common sense’ view must itself be nonsense.
5 November 2017 — OurNHS
As he became ‘the most hated man on the Internet’ last year, ‘pharma-bro’ Martin Shkreli repeatedly claimed that by hiking the price of HIV drugs he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. Squeezing health services and patients for every last penny is just how the pharmaceutical industry works. And that’s perhaps the only thing he was right about.
While multinational drug companies have turned themselves into one of the most profitable industries in the world, they have peddled the lie that they’re charging eye-watering prices for their life-saving products because it costs a fortune to research and develop them. What they didn’t tell us is that much of that research is publicly funded in the first place.
The New Dark Age 