2 June 2021 — Media Lens
In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor Katherine Viner proclaimed in a long, celebratory essay:
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19 June 2019 — FAIR
by Alan MacLeod
Alan MacLeod interviewed Noam Chomsky via Skype on March 13, 2018, for MacLeod’s new book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. They discussed the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria. This is a lightly edited transcript.
10 October 2017 — Media Lens
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
8 July 2014 — Gilad Atzmon
In his latest article in The Nation, Noam Chomsky selectively cherry picks the facts that fit his preferred narrative, while ignoring and disguising relevant details that contradict his thesis. One would expect an academic of Chomsky’s stature to perform at a much higher standard of intellectual integrity.
5 November 2013 — Memory Hole
8 September 2013 — Information Clearing House
Assad: Syria’s Allies Will Retaliate in Response to US Strike
By Reuters
President Bashar Assad warned that if there was a military strike by the United States on his country, there would be retaliation by those aligned with Syria.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36161.htm
17 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
Bonapartism”
Egypt’s Revolution After the Smoke Clears
By Shamus Cooke
Why would one enemy of the revolution be attacking another?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35888.htm
21 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
During a recent interview on Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky stated that he believes Osama bin Laden was probably behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.i The statement was curious because in earlier interviews Chomsky described the evidence against bin Laden as thin to nonexistent,ii which was accurate and, no doubt, explains why the US Department of Justice never indicted bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks.
28 June 2013 — Media Lens
Reports of Washington’s anger directed at surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate a basic truth about power. Noam Chomsky has expressed it as the underlying problem for genuine democracy, even in so-called ‘free’ societies: Continue reading
20 June 2013 — Washington’s Blog
Leading liberal Noam Chomsky said yesterday:
The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, it’s doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it […] All of these operations, they are terror operations. Continue reading
21 June 2013 — Information Clearing House
Exclusive: U.S. Secretly Providing Training For Syrian Rebels
By David S. Cloud and Raja Abdulrahim
Since late last year, CIA and U.S. military operatives have been teaching Syrian rebels how to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at bases in Jordan and Turkey, according to U.S. and rebel sources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35379.htm
11 June 2013 — Eric Walberg
The builders of Gaza’s Ark hope to bring Gazan goods to the world. The latest plan to try to break the illegal siege of Gaza, according to organizer Michael Coleman at Sunday’s press conference in the port of Gaza, is to refurbish their very second-hand fishing boat, fill it with Gazan products (date products, embroidery, craft items and more) and sail to another Mediterranean port, like any normal exporter.
24 May, 2013 — Global Research
Two men armed with knives and gun(s) apparently hack to death an off-duty soldier outside an army barracks in Woolwich, London. As the soldier lies dead or dying in the road, one of the alleged attackers approaches a man filming the scene on his mobile phone and makes a political speech about the British state’s role in killing Muslims in foreign countries.
23 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
What is the U.S. REALLY doing in Syria?
By Stephen M. Walt
Washington can use Qatar and Saudi Arabia as its middlemen, roles they are all too happy to play for their own reasons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35048.htm
15 May, 2013 — Global Research – Tortilla con sal
In the interest of sharing diversity of opinions and promoting an atmosphere of exchange and critique, we bring to the attention of our readers the following text by Jorge Capelán and Toni Solo.
This text is in response to a Global Research entitled The Pink Tide in Latin America: An Alliance Between Local Capital and Socialism? , Mahdi Darius Nazemroya, May 03, 2013
12 May, 2013 — Global Research
The Second World War had devastated the colonial empires of Western Europe, leaving the United States as the capitalist world’s undisputed superpower. At the same time, the war demolished the colonial system that had defined the imperialist era up until that point, giving rise to a new stage of imperialism called neo-colonialism.
10 May 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Non-violent protester shot in head by Israeli troops; 4 others wounded
IMEMC – 21-year old Ibrahim Awad was shot in the head at close range by a plastic-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces at a protest in Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank. A journalist was wounded in Bil’in and three were injured by pepper spray in al-Walaja, near Bethlehem. …
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29 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
Obama and U.S. Military Divided Over Syria
By Shamus Cooke
In the real world it appears that the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are the ones responsible for having used chemical weapons against the Syrian government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34771.htm
24 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
Iran: How the West Missed a Chance to Make Peace With Iran
By Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne shows how the West turned down a precious opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis eight years ago, and argues that it is western rather than Iranian intransigence that prevents a deal being struck today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34723.htm
6 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
Behind the North Korean Crisis
By Dennis J. Bernstein
All we see is media reporting that singularly ascribes blame to North Korea, which is portrayed as a kind of unquestionable evil, so what the U.S. is doing in response to the supposed provocation seems eminently justified.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34531.htm
The New Dark Age 