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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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Syria Newslinks for 15 June 2011
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Turkey Spurns Assistance as Syria’s Attack on Town Forces More to Flee Bloomberg “Maybe this stems from Syria’s special status and Turkey doesn’t want to involve the international community, but this is an international crisis.” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit the camps holding Syrian refugees on his country’s Continue reading
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Preview of CNN’s WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: ‘Mission’ Implausible By Greg Mitchell
Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks). Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info 1 in 4 US Hackers are FBI Informants, Report Says PCWorld The Guardian gives the example of Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who ratted out Bradley Manning last year. Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, passed classified documents on to Lamo, who turned around and passed those documents right back Continue reading
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Libya Mostly Mainstream Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Rebels Retake Town in West New York Times By JOHN F. BURNS TRIPOLI, Libya — Following a series of NATO airstrikes, rebel forces retook the western mountain town of Yafran on Monday, breaking a month-long siege by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, news agencies reported. … Continue reading
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Video: Libya Rebels Execute, Behead, Mutilate Gaddafi Army who Surrender! Where is CNN now?
Pro Gaddafi Soldiers who surrender have been Executed by Rebels in Cold Blood ! Blindfolded, hog-tied, beat, Executed, Hung, beheaded, put on fire, had their bodies mutiliated, and in one documented case a Soldier had his heart cut out of his chest when he proclaimed that his ‘heart is for Gaddafi’ and the rebel took… Continue reading
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Libya stands with Gaddafi
1st collector for Libya stands with GaddafiFollow my videos on vodpod Comment from the video uploader: Anderson Cooper of CNN has joined forces with the Qatar monarchy and it’s in-house propaganda outlet, Al-Jazeera and the Crazy Iranian government mouthpiece, Press TV to try to destroy Libya, but they will not succeed, as Libyans love their Continue reading
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Military in Power Has Not Been Good For Us
12 February, 2011 Ethar El-Katatney, a staff writer for Egypt Today, tells CNN: “We may be a little too optimistic about military; we must keep going forward” http://therealnews.com/scripts/player/player.swf Military in Power Has Not Been Good For Us Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 31 December, 2010
31 December, 2010 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks show US frustrated with Egypt military The Associated Press 21, 2008, released by WikiLeaks. “But the aging leadership, however, has resisted our efforts and remained satisfied with continuing to do what they have … www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gchtJ6DAn5Q19bdjakBX4Pzii-zA?docId=32698e9906ad4e229fb36a09c02a78ca Continue reading
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Smell Something Rotten? 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize the worst of U.S. journalism
At the end of every year FAIR rounds up some of the stinkiest examples of corporate media malfeasance. This year brought no shortage of contenders; indeed, the hardest part of the P.U.-litzers is narrowing down the list. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 29 December, 2010
29 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Julian Assange to keep WikiLeaks afloat with money from book deal Christian Science Monitor Julian Assange has signed a book deal worth more than $1 million as a way to pay WikiLeaks’ legal bills. The business world has had a mixed reaction to … www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1228/Julian-Assange-to-keep-WikiLeaks-afloat-with-money-from-book-deal Continue reading
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks out on CNN interview By Stephen C. Webster
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks out on CNN interviewIf you want an interview, it’s unwise to ask WikiLeaks founder and former hacker Julian Assange about charges of sexual impropriety, as CNN correspondent Atika Shubert found out recently. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: MCCHRYSTAL – DEATH SQUAD POSTER BOY
In May 2009, Petras sampled from McChrystal’s CV. The general had played a central role in directing units involved in “extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions”. He was “the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building”. Continue reading
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Video: Haiti Report by TeleSur's Reed Lindsay, Now Translated to English
Many thanks to 2010 School of Authentic Journalism scholar Joaquín Nezua Herrera, who put up the subtitles so that English speakers can get this unique ground level view of post-earthquake Port au Prince… Continue reading
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Video: Haiti Report by TeleSur’s Reed Lindsay, Now Translated to English
Many thanks to 2010 School of Authentic Journalism scholar Joaquín Nezua Herrera, who put up the subtitles so that English speakers can get this unique ground level view of post-earthquake Port au Prince… Continue reading
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CNN’s Lou Dobbs Problem
This week, we are launching the television ad below against CNN and Lou Dobbs. We purchased airtime on Dobbs’ show as well as on Fox News and MSNBC. It will air starting on Tuesday, and we need your help to run it as many times as possible. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC, Impartiality, And The Hidden Logic Of Massacre — Part 1
In 1999, the corporation allowed its own high profile newsreader, Jill Dando, to present a DEC appeal for Kosovo at the height of NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia. This, also, was an ongoing and highly controversial conflict, one that involved fraudulent US-UK government and media claims of a Serbian “genocide” in Kosovo (claims which… Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 1 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 20, 2007 Introduction The writer Simon Louvish once told the story of a group of Soviets touring the United States before the age of glasnost. After reading the newspapers and watching TV, they were amazed to find that, on the big issues, all Continue reading
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Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial By Norman Solomon
The man who ran CNN’s news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary’s evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how “liberal media†outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military Continue reading
The New Dark Age 