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This Is How Israel Runs The British Press
The following is a glimpse into the Israeli Hasbara’s/Mossad’s/Sayanim’s operation in the UK. It explains how Israel and its agents manage to dominate news coverage in Britain and beyond. It seems from the following leaked email as if BICOM (British Israel Communication & Research Centre) runs the News desk for the BBC, Sky and the… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 28-30 October 2011
30 October 2011 — williambowles.info 30 October 2011 Syria says Western meddling could set Middle East on fire Russiatoday.ru Today at 10:52 Syria’s President Assad has promised ‘ten Afghan wars’ if the West intervenes in his country’s internal affairs. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Killing Gaddafi
Gaddafi and his son were not the only victims of the mob. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that between six and ten people appeared to have been executed at the scene of the Libyan leader’s capture. Around 95 bodies were found in the immediate vicinity, many of them victims of Nato airstrikes. In fact, it… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 25 October 2011
25 October 2011 — williambowles.info Professor Cole gloats over Gaddafi’s murder World Socialist Web Site Today at 14:42 University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole claims the revolting murder of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as ‘vindication’ for the imperialist war against Libya that he championed. Continue reading
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The BBC: NATO’s media partner-in-crime By William Bowles
Well they’ve finally silenced Muammar Gaddafi, the man the BBC calls “an oddball until the end”. The manner of his capture and death seems not to bother the BBC but then who cares about ‘oddballs’? Continue reading
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This Is My Will by Muammar Gaddafi
Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 October 2011
21 October 2011 — williambowles.info 21 October 2011 THE ROVING EYE : A peek at the new Libya Asia Times Online Today at Noon Welcome to the new Libya. Islamist militias will turn the lives of Libyan women into a living hell. Hundreds of thousands of Sub-Saharan Africans – those who could not escape – Continue reading
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Media Lens: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 2
Ten years later, the violent consequences of the invasion of Afghanistan are truly appalling. A Stop the War video, ‘What is the true cost of the Afghanistan war?’ details some of the appalling statistics: Continue reading
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Media Lens: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 1 Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
In a shameful editorial, the Guardian burnished its credentials as a hand-wringing liberal supporter of the war. Readers were told that the war that had been ‘unavoidable’ and that ‘we’ had then stayed in the country ‘through all the twists and turns imposed by events’, struggling with ‘the incoherence of our own changing policies, for… Continue reading
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The BBC is, and Always Has Been, Part of the Problem By Tom Mills
The neoliberal model propagated by Murdoch has been in ascendancy since the mid-1980s, whilst the public service model associated with the BBC has been progressively eclipsed. Indeed Murdoch has consciously sought to destroy, or at least marginalise, public service broadcasting, which is anathema to his politics and an obstacle to his ambitions. Continue reading
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Support from the Tribes of Sahara. Thousands of Tuaregs Join Libyan Resistance Forces By Alliby Hassan
1 October 2011 — Global Research – La Haine Axis of Logic Continue reading
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Labouring under an illusion By William Bowles
Allegedly attacking the institutions that the Labour government wholeheartedly embraced–principally the financial sector and their “fast buck” culture–Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, which even more than Thatcher created the conditions for today’s economic meltdown, now expects us to forget thirteen years of neoliberal, imperial rule under the ‘party of labour’ with exhortations by… Continue reading
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Libya: NTC concocts mass grave story in brazen propaganda ploy and the BBC spreads it
In a truly stunning display of dishonesty, the BBC has reported, citing no evidence to back its claim, that a mass grave containing over 1,200 bodies has been found in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison complex. The BBC attempts to tie this ‘finding’ to the equally concocted ‘Abu Salim prison massacre’, as it claims that the… Continue reading
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Libya: Black Africans continue to be killed and persecuted by rebel forces By Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
‘Reports for many months have stated that Libyan rebels have been killing and persecuting black Africans in Libya once areas came under their control. The number of reports highlighting this continues to grow and many images have been shown which show Africans being mutilated and having their bodies abused and mocked by non-black African Libyans.… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do
A defining feature of state power is rhetoric about a ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’ role in world affairs. Errors of judgement, blunders and tactical mistakes can, and do, occur. But the motivation underlying state policy is fundamentally benign. Reporters and commentators, trained or selected for professional ‘reliability’, tend to slavishly adopt this prevailing ideology. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 14-15 September 2011
15 September 2011 — williambowles.info 15 September 2011 NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall World Socialist Web Site Today at 14:07 The fragility of the new regime in Tripoli was underscored by its announcement yesterday that it would remain in Benghazi until after the seizure of the remaining pro-Gaddafi strongholds. Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Tripoli, as they had in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Kabul and Baghdad. This, again, was a moment of national triumph, of vindication – the famed concern with ‘balance’ was brushed aside as mean-spirited, even nasty (the… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 September 2011: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War
5 September 2011 — williambowles.info Libya: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 23:01 Some more updates in spite of the news censorship and communications black out by NATO on Libya Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 26 August 2011
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info Rebels in Libya work to rub out loyalist pockets CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Opposition and NATO forces took aim at the Gadhafi regime in Tripoli and Sirte on Friday as rebels worked to consolidate their power across strife-torn Libya. British warplanes pounded a Continue reading
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Sirte – the Apotheosis of “Liberal Intervention” By Craig Murray
There is no cause to doubt that, for whatever reason, the support of the people of Sirte for Gadaffi is genuine. That this means they deserve to be pounded into submission is less obvious to me. The disconnect between the UN mandate to protect civilians while facilitating negotiation, and NATO’s actual actions as the anti-Gadaffi… Continue reading
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