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Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA
Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading
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Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA
Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point RollingStone.com Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn’t have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there’s a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Continue reading
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Still Getting Gitmo Wrong By Peter Hart
President Barack Obama’s address yesterday on U.S. terror strategies got a lot of attention for supposedly charting a new course in America’s longest war. But some of the facts were mangled along the way. Continue reading
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A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The Justice Dept’s Dangerous New Argument Threatens Basic Reporting
Secrecy expert Steven Aftergood wrote, the government’s argument “all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime.” Continue reading
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US Media Censors Cases of US Officials Implicated in Terrorism & Nuclear Espionage By Sibel Edmonds
In January 2008 The Sunday Times published the second report of its four-part investigative series concerning the U.S. government’s direct role in international terrorism networks and organized crime involving nuclear espionage: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets. Continue reading
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Syria : One Year After the Houla Massacre. New Report on Official vs. Real Truth By Adam Larson
A week from now it will be one year since the world first heard about the horrors of a place in Syria called “Houla.” On the afternoon and evening of Friday, May 25, 2012, a reported 108 civilians were massacred there. They were executed inside their homes, with guns and “sharp tools,” and maybe a… Continue reading
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Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo By Marjorie Cohn
More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his lawyer, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard. Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo for… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘This Madman Must Be Stopped’ – Syrian Chemical Weapons By David Edwards
This really is astonishing, in the strange world of media propaganda, news reports contradict editorials and headlines contradict content. The guiding ethic: ‘I want to believe!’ It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that media performance is shaped by state-corporate forces that are deeply invested in decades of war and the spoils that go with… Continue reading
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Boston Terror Narrative Starts Falling Apart
We have no idea whether or not the Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were the Boston terrorists. But several parts of the official narrative are already falling apart. Continue reading
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'US threat to nuke Iran is criminal' Professor Francis A. Boyle
Addressing the 18th conference on “Direct Democracy” in Feldkirch, Austria, on nuclear deterrence, Boyle added that the US government is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon. Continue reading
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Time Cheers the Drone War
The new issue of Time magazine promises on its cover ‘Essential Info for the Year Ahead.’ One apparently essential report: U.S. drones are awesome. Continue reading
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PCHR E-Narrative 3 January 2009: Motee’ and Isma’il as-Selawy
On 3 January 2009, at around 17:20, during prayer time, an Israeli drone fired a missile at the western entrance of al-Maqadma mosque in Jabaliya refugee camp. In the attack, 15 worshipers were killed and hundreds were injured. Continue reading
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PCHR E-Narrative: 29 December 2008: Balousha Family
At around 00:00 on the 29 December 2008 an Israeli aircraft attacked the Imad Akel Mosque situated in Jabaliya refugee camp. The attack destroyed the home of Anwar and Samira Balousha, which was situated just three metres from the mosque. Five of the family’s eight daughters were killed as a result of the bombing, which… Continue reading
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Two Icons, Two Deaths, Two Worlds: The Media Simplified Them Both By Danny Schechter
The world has said goodbye to two leaders who were worlds apart. One was a widely celebrated anti-communist, the other a widely despised communist. However, both the lives and thoughts of the Czech Republic’s Vaclav Havel, and North Korea’s Kim Jung-il were given short shrift. Continue reading
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NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties By Glen Ford
The Times recent concern over Libyan victims of NATO bombing lacks credibility, given its wildly biased reporting of the war. ‘Thousands of black Libyan citizens and African migrant workers are dead at least partially as a result of western media lies.’ Continue reading
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