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BBC Newslinks covering Libya 26 July – 26 August 2011
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info I’ve collated these stories for future reference but I’m sure there are many readers who are also interested in how the MSM hasn’t covered the crisis. 26 August 2011UK planes target Gaddafi bunker http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-14677754 Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Libyan Deaths, Media Silence – Were Dozens Killed in Majer NATO Airstrikes?
Allegations of Libyan civilian deaths as a result of NATO bombing have often been covered in the corporate media as an opportunity to scoff at the Gadhafi regime’s unconvincing propaganda (FAIR Blog, 6/9/11). But dramatic new allegations that dozens of civilians were killed in Majer after NATO airstrikes on August 8 have been met with… Continue reading
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The state unleashes the Dogs of Media By William Bowles
What a depressing state of affairs. The media, like some slavering pack of wolves, eager for blood has descended on our dispossessed and demonized them some more. It’s like something out of the worst of the Victorian period, where to be poor was literally regarded as a crime and treated as such. Continue reading
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Ten reasons to riot By William Bowles
What is fascinating about the ten headings is that taken collectively they spell capitalism, but broken down as they are, they are reduced to fragments of the whole and subsequently dealt with accordingly, as fragments of largely cliched and predictable knee-jerk reactions, rolled glibly off the tongue of the assembled ‘experts’. Continue reading
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Who is the sick one here? By William Bowles
Yesterday, 10 August our vainglorious pm announced that the communities from which it is alleged the ‘rioters and looters’ emanated from were “sick”. But more on who is really sick in our society later. In the meantime I’d like to pick up on an aspect of the state’s response (or apparent lack of) to the… Continue reading
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Back to the future By William Bowles
Exactly thirty years ago Brixton exploded with rage against the de facto occupation of Brixton by the Met police. And, as I write this, all kinds of madness is going down in various parts of London and elsewhere. Continue reading
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Welcome to the world of terrorist television By William Bowles
I venture to say that the timing of the attempt to silence Libya’s electronic media is in part a response to the rebels assassination of its own military leader Younes and the excellent PR it gave the Libyan state. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2, 1011
2 August 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War: U.S. Celebrates Launching of 2,000th Tomahawk Missile British Warplanes Provide Air Support For Libyan Rebel Attacks France Gives $259 Million Of Seized Libyan Government Assets To Rebels Thaci’s Enforcers: NATO Removes Serb Barricades In Kosovo Afghanistan: NATO Implicated In Killing Of BBC Reporter At Least Ten NATO Continue reading
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The Israel Lobby’s Power Comes From the American Ruling Class
“Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, the second biggest shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch, recently gave an interview, on his yacht, to the BBC flagship programme Newsnight. The Saudi prince declared himself “a good friend” of Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch Continue reading
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War on Libya leaves Africa at a crossroads By J L Samboma
The Horn of Africa is today within the stranglehold of drought and famine. Libya, a significant player in the so-called African Union under any reckoning, is currently under sustained imperialist assault by the Western powers, a mass-murdering adventure led by the first black president of the United States of America. Continue reading
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Student Questions From Tripoli By Franklin Lamb
One thing most foreigners and the local population agree on in western Libya is that there were few signs in early February that eastern Libya would erupt as it did and many are still unclear what and who caused it and why and how. But when half a dozen bright, energetic, nationalistic Libyan under and… Continue reading
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Murdoch’s World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering By Stephen Lendman
For sure Murdoch sustained a body blow. Calling it coup de grace strength, however, exaggerates how News Corp will be affected. It likely will survive long after its aging head steps down, but imagine a Murdoch-free media landscape. Then imagine freedom from all managed and junk food news. Tune out and make it happen. Continue reading
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10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch By Robin Beste
What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country’s armed forces to war? Continue reading
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual By John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch is a 21st century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is missing; the absurdity of his power is the same. The Daily Beast wanted victories; it got them. The Sun wanted dead Argies; Gotcha! Of the bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said, ‘There is going to be collateral damage. And if you really want to… Continue reading
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Gobsmacked by the media By William Bowles
Y’know, sometimes you have to admire the nerve of the BBC and the corporate press, they have no shame, none whatsoever as they crow loudly that now the Big Bad Wolf has been defanged, they can all pat themselves on the back for what a good job they’ve done in exposing the malfeasance of News… Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC Bombast – Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence
The newscaster – Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, perhaps Emily Maitlis or Nick Owen – looks directly into the camera with the requisite degree of gravitas. The message is clear: ‘You can trust us. We have no agenda. This is the BBC. This is The News.’ Continue reading
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The Limits of Acceptable Controversy By Dan Hind
The British media in their current form can neither regulate themselves or report adequately on their own activities. These failures must be added to their demonstrable inability to describe the broad outlines of the economic system in the run-up to the crisis of 2007-8, and their failure to expose the government’s manipulations and deceits in… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 