Media
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Patrick Cockburn: Don’t believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi
Ever since the Libyan uprising started on 15 February, the foreign media have regurgitated stories of atrocities carried out by Gaddafi’s forces. It is now becoming clear that reputable human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been unable to find evidence for the worst of these. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 26-27 June 2011
27 June 2011 17:48:59 — williambowles.info 27 June 2011 Mathaba: Libya: An Uncertain Future: “Libya: An Uncertain Future Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Today at 17:00 Libya: An Uncertain Future Report of a Fact Finding Mission to assess both sides of the Libyan conflict more… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 24-25 June 2011
25 June 2011 — williambowles.info 25 June 2011 SCF: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV Mathaba: The Libyan Crisis: Italy Humiliates NATO Global Research: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV williambowles.info: Graphic Video of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier By Susan Lindauer SCF: House Votes Not to… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 23-24 June 2011
24 June 2011 — williambowles.info 24 June 2011 BBC: Libya rebels in ‘Tripoli talks’ Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 24, 2011 BBC: Libya conflict RT: ‘NATO will have done a good thing in Libya’ – diplomat 23 June 2011 Global Research: Libya: The Latest Product in Canada’s Ugly War Assembly Line SCF:… Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Defining ‘Withdrawal’ From Afghanistan
Barack Obama’s June 22 announcement of a phased troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was often portrayed as a major step towards ending the war, with many outlets neglecting to accurately explain the pace of escalation that has happened under his watch. Continue reading
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One Million March for Gaddafi: Where is this story?
Last Friday one million Libyans took to the streets of Tripoli to march in favour of their Brother Leader Muammar al-Qathafi and against the criminal precision-terrorism wrought on Libya’s population by NATO and the terrorist elements they are protecting. Yet where is this story? Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 19 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info Gates vigorously backs Libya policy Politico Gates defends the president against critics who question the legality of the operation in Libya. | AP Photo Close By BYRON TAU & ANDY BARR | 6/19/11 12:41 PM EDT In two farewell interviews Sunday as Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates launched a robust… Continue reading
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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay
In 2004, MediaTek sold 3 million of its chips [3]; six years later, its sales had soared to 500 million, more than a third of the worldwide market. Nearly half of those went to shanzhai. The sudden ability to design, manufacture, and ship millions of dirt-cheap handsets in total secrecy led to an explosion in… Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 12 June 2011
12 June 2011 — williambowles.info Fighting Continues in Libya, Creeps Toward Capital Voice of America Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have hammered rebels in the west with heavy weapons, as separate fighting creeps toward the capital, Tripoli. Reporters at the frontline near the rebel-held western town of Zintan say government forces … http:… Continue reading
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BBC swallows ‘precision’ lies By Rory MacKinnon
Anti-poverty charity War on Want lashed out at the BBC over claims of ‘precision bombing’ in Libya at Saturday’s annual Stop the War Coalition conference. Continue reading
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Preview of CNN’s WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: ‘Mission’ Implausible By Greg Mitchell
Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks). Continue reading
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The NHS Debate by Dan Hind
The Week in Westminster this morning ran a feature on the Coalition’s plans for the National Health Service. The presenter Peter Riddell interviewed the Lords Fowler and Warner, Conservative and Labour respectively. These ‘veteran peers’ shared a good deal of ground in their discussion with Peter Riddell. Indeed an incautious listener might have come away… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 10 June 2011: Shaky Libya campaign shows NATO’s weaknesses, Gates says
10 June 2011 — williambowles.info 23 killed as fighting again rages in western Libyan city CNN International Misrata, Libya (CNN) — At least 23 people were killed Friday as fighting raged in the western Libyan city of Misrata where forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi attempted to enter from the west and south. Another 78 others… Continue reading
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Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger
I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I… Continue reading
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Announcing Frontline Club Exclusive: Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Zizek
We are excited to announce that on Saturday 2 July at The Troxy in East London we will be bringing together the editor-in-chief of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, to discuss the impact of WikiLeaks on the world and what it means for the future. Continue reading
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NATO’s “Alternate Universe” in Libya By Wayne Madsen
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli… Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity By Glen Ford
Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 