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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iran, Nukes and the Failure of Skepticism
Much of the corporate media coverage of a new UN report on Iran strongly asserts that Iran is close to building nuclear weapons. But the International Atomic Energy Agency report does not actually arrive at that conclusion, and many critics contend that the speculations that are in the report are misguided. Continue reading
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Video: Zainab al-Hosni, the "Flower of Syria," Alive and on TV: Will Human Rights Organizations and Mass Media Issue Corrections? By Yoshie Furuhashi
Zainab al-Hosni, dubbed the “Flower of Syria,” who the Syrian opposition claimed was tortured and murdered, burned and decapitated, by the Syrian government, has just appeared on Syrian TV, very much alive. Here is the video of the TV interview with Zainab, who says she fled from her family home because her brothers were beating… Continue reading
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MSM’s Keep Relentlessly Pounding on Gaddafi’s Libya
NATO’s conquest of Libya has taught me the enormous strength of those who control the main stream media. Once you have established a certain ‘paradigm’ or perspective on a particular situation, it is easy to let people stick to that by fueling them with exactly those kinds of words that will prolong the existence of… Continue reading
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Gaddafi extends olive branch? — RT
Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi is ready to negotiate with the rebels to form a transitional government, Moussa Ibrahim, head of Gaddafi’s press service said. Continue reading
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Video: Eyewitnesses dismiss rebel advances on Tripoli as misinformation — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists. Continue reading
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Video: Eyewitnesses dismiss rebel advances on Tripoli as misinformation — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists. Continue reading
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Syria News Roundup 14 July 2011: Good Protesters, Bad Protesters
“Yesterday, a US official referred to the protesters at the US embassy as ‘thugs.’ But if they were attacking a Ba’th office or a Syrian government building, I am sure that they would not have been described as thugs. So thuggery is not an act in itself: it is a description of an act directed… Continue reading
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What WaPo Won’t Tell You About CIA’s Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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What WaPo Won't Tell You About CIA's Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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UN official presses for truth panel on Duvalier By TRENTON DANIEL
More than 20 lawsuits have been filed in a Haitian court against Duvalier for crimes ranging from attempted murder and torture to embezzlement since he made an unexpected return to his homeland in January after 25 years in exile. Continue reading
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"Syrians angry with US and France meddling in their country’s affairs" — RT
‘There is a blatant intervention by the US and French governments, at least if they were fully aware of what their ambassadors were doing, in a very fluid, dynamic situation on the ground in Syria,’ Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 4 June 2011
4 June 2011 — williambowles.info Attack on Yemen’s president adds fuel to a heated conflict Los Angeles Times (Mohammed Al-Sayaghi, Associated Press / June 4, 2011) Five senior Yemeni officials were sent to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after a rocket attack wounded Yemen’s president in his personal mosque and appeared to end hopes for Continue reading
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Protecting Us from Our Freedoms: Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions By Tom Burghardt
As night follows day, you can count on Congress to serve as loyal servants and willing accomplices of our out-of-control National Security State. Last week, in another shameless demonstration of congressional “bipartisanship,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) forged a filthy backroom deal… Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die By Dahr Jamail
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Selective Vision: Iran, Israel And Nuclear Arms
When a demonstrably mendacious leader claims he “passionately believed” in a lie, the media has to take him at his word. This is the same brand of journalistic gullibility that has had such tragic consequences for the people of Iraq. This is the endless, uncritical obedience to power that boosted the warmongering agenda of London… Continue reading
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