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Libya Independent Media Newslinks for 26-27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info 27 February, 2011 Noam Chomsky: Stability means obedience to US domination UN approves sanctions against Libya NATO Meets for Talks about Possible Military Intervention in Libya EU Weapons Exports to Libya Putin urges EU not to interfere in Libya’s “Internal Affairs” Al Jazeera Misinformation: The Truth About Libya’s Ambassador to… Continue reading
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Libya Independent Media Newslinks for 26-27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info 27 February, 2011 Noam Chomsky: Stability means obedience to US domination UN approves sanctions against Libya NATO Meets for Talks about Possible Military Intervention in Libya EU Weapons Exports to Libya Putin urges EU not to interfere in Libya’s “Internal Affairs” Al Jazeera Misinformation: The Truth About Libya’s Ambassador to… Continue reading
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ColdType February 2011 Issue
The Revolution Is Being Televised, Fazila Farouk & Jess Hurd; It’s Egypt’s Revolution, Not Ours, Chris Hedges; A Lesson In Revolution And Hypocrisy, Andy Worthington; Hurwitt’s Eye, Mark Hurwitt; Walk Like An Egyptian, David Michael Green; Kissinger On Egypt? Give Us A Break!, Barry Lando; Pox Americana, Tom Engelhardt. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 5-6 February, 2011
6 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt Egypt: A sleeping giant awakens Sudan: Anti-gov. protesters defy police US backs Habib’s torturer, but Arab world has changed “The Arab World Is on Fire” by Noam Chomsky Carlos Latuff, “Muslims and Christians, United for Egypt, against Mubarak” (Cartoon)… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 5-6 February, 2011
6 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt Egypt: A sleeping giant awakens Sudan: Anti-gov. protesters defy police US backs Habib’s torturer, but Arab world has changed “The Arab World Is on Fire” by Noam Chomsky Carlos Latuff, “Muslims and Christians, United for Egypt, against Mubarak” (Cartoon)… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 3-4 February, 2011
4 February, 2011 — creative-i Apologies for no posts for the past couple of days but I’ve been rather unwell. 4 February, 2011 Why isn’t the PA supporting the Egypt uprising? Australian rallies in solidarity with the Egyptian people Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? by Rick Rozoff Dyab Abou Jahjah, “Egypt:… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Too Toxic to Handle? Follow-up Alert on Israel’s Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. We, and many of our readers, emailed broadcasters and newspapers asking why the release of these documents was not reported in October. Were journalists simply unaware of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 1 December, 2010
1 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Ho Hum: More Wikileaks “Chickenfeed” Interpol issues arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder American Racism on Display in Wikileaks Iran Cable Whose Core Interest Is It Anyway? VIDEO: Top Canadian Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran? The folly of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup for 30 November, 2010
30 November, 2010 — creative-i.info Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush US ambassador: Leaks not damaging WikiLeaks on Public TV: Defending the ‘Interests of the West’ Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables – Fulltext Search No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “VEILED THREATS” OF “INDUSTRIAL CHAOS”
On 19 September, the Sunday Times ran a major interview with Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (Andrew Davidson, ‘King of compromise alone on a tightrope’, Sunday Times, business section, 19 September, 2010; online article is hidden behind a pay wall). The bias was clear even from the text immediately following the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 June, 2010: No Solution to U.S. Crises / Black Politics Ends / U.S. Social Forum Begins / Fascism Enters Through "Terror" Door
23 June, 2010 — Black Agenda Report America Can’t Solve Crises Because It’s a Company-Owned Town by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Great Gusher in the Gulf is a political, not simply an economic and environmental, crisis. “No amount of public disgust at BP has moved Obama to behave as if he is beholden… Continue reading
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Capitalism cut adrift By William Bowles
There has been much talk expended over the years on the degree to which the media—and hence culture—is central to maintaining the capitalist system. Leading the charge have been Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, so much so that they now more resemble sainted objects than social/political analysts, but then this is nothing new for the… Continue reading
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Guest Media Lens Alert: How Alternative Media Provide the Crucial Critique of the Mainstream – Richard Keeble Responds to Tim Luckhurst
On January 4, Tim Luckhurst, former BBC journalist and current Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent, wrote an article in the Independent with the dramatic title, ‘Demise of news barons is just a Marxist fantasy.’ Luckhurst argued that leftist critics are gleefully predicting the end of corporate journalism. According to Luckhurst “there is… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: DANCING ON A MASS GRAVE – OLIVER KAMM OF THE TIMES SMEARS MEDIA LENS
One of our most relentless critics is Oliver Kamm, leader writer and blogger at The Times. Kamm joined the paper in 2008 having been an investment banker and co-founder of a hedge fund. In a 2006 blog, Kamm described us as “a shrill group of malcontents”, an “aggressively simple-minded lobby” guilty of “unprofessional and often… Continue reading
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GUEST MEDIA LENS ALERT: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF FLAT EARTH NEWS AND NEWSPEAK – PART 2 By Jonathan Cook
The professional journalist, they suggest, is trained to seek out facts from which he or she constructs an “objective” news report. On this view, journalists select facts in the same way that, adopting an analogy used by Edwards and Cromwell, a geologist collects rocks for research. “Geologists have no emotional attachment to their rocks –… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Cockroach Test
News that philosopher Alain de Botton had been hired as Heathrow’s “writer in residence” generated minor ripples across the media pond, including occasional murmurs of disapproval. Journalists momentarily failed to repress their awareness that truth into corporate profit-maximising does not go, although without perceiving the implications for themselves. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC, Impartiality, And The Hidden Logic Of Massacre — Part 2
Despite the input of hundreds of journalists working for numerous large, well-resourced corporations, we were unable to find a mainstream account that made sense of what was happening in Gaza. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 