Iraq
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PressTV – ‘Blair created pack of lies on Iraq war’
The new-documents released by the Iraq war Inquiry has confirmed that Tony Blair and his communications advisor Alistair Campbell made up a pack of lies to involve Britain in an illegal war. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011
Our point – an obvious one, we would hope – is not at all to suggest that we support Gaddafi’s tyranny or his atrocities. Our point is that, time and again, our ostensibly independent mass media fall into line when the state declares war. When the official enemy attacks civilians our media howl with righteous… Continue reading
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Leave Syria to the Syrians By Charles Glass
This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen to be him or her, take my advice: Do nothing. Especially in Syria. Let all the think tanks and lobbyists submit their recommendations. Ask the CIA for the usual analysis. Tell the Israelis, which you… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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Ten Years Of Media Lens – Some Questions And Answers
It has been a long, winding road from Southampton’s Giddy Bridge public house in 2001, where David Edwards first put to David Cromwell the possibility of starting some kind of media watch site. The idea seemed absolutely right, in fact blindingly obvious: why had we not thought of it before? Why had nobody else thought… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 April, 2011 – Weekend Edition: UK: Special Forces scandal as officers are held 'for trying to leak secrets'
9 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House To Libya With God On Our Side By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes Grabbing other people’s land and interfering in their affairs became as American as apple pie before the annexation of Texas, and “Manifest Destiny” as the engine of U.S. foreign policy. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27853.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 1
All revolutions are not equal. While Libya is deemed worthy of the West’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ – express delivery by B-2 bomber, F-15 fighter and cruise missile – protesters elsewhere have been denied such Western largesse. In response to the atrocities in Yemen, for example, Obama has sent mere words. The reason, as one astute commentator… Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 30 March 2011
30 March 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Assault On Libya: 1,800 Sorties, 214 Cruise Missile Attacks 70 Percent Of Britons Fear New Iraq-Style War In Libya NATO’s Top Military Commander: Foreign Stabilization Force In Libya Videos And Text: Obama Establishes Doctrine Around Libya France Sends Envoy To Libyan Rebel Base: Report Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya Part 2
Like a skilled conjuror, the media slips effortlessly, and without explanation, between the obvious need for ‘positive engagement’ and the obvious need to ‘confront tyranny’. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 1
One can hardly fail to be impressed by the corporate media’s faith in humanity. Or at least that part of humanity with its finger on the cruise missile button. Last week, the Independent’s Patrick Cockburn predicted that ‘Western nations will soon be engaged in a war in Libya with the noble aim of protecting civilians.’ Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 March, 2011: U.S. rescue chopper shoots six Libyan villagers as they welcome pilots of downed Air Force jet
22 March 2011 — Information Clearing House Libya: Another War We Shouldn’t Believe In By Ted Rall Does Qadafi have the right to defend himself? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27742.htm Continue reading
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Yesterday Iraq. Today Libya. “Paying the Price.”: Children are the Unspoken Victims of US-NATO Wars By Felicity Arbuthnot
Now Libya’s people are “paying the price”, for being, well, Libyan, I am reminded of another people that, to use the words of the appalling Madeleine Albright, then US., Ambassador the the UN., were : ” … a price worth paying.” She was talking of the deaths of half a million Iraqi children, on 12th… Continue reading
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Let’s talk with women from Gaza, Pakistan, Egypt & Iraq!
Code Pink invites you to discover for yourself what is unfolding in the Middle East in a special Global Room for Women teleconference series that will touch you deeply and give you courage, insight and resolve to live your own dignity. Sign-up for our Series of 9 interactive calls with four engaging women building peace… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 March, 2011: Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations
4 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House “I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.” – Harold Pinter Battle For The City of al-Zawiyah Raw Video – Warning – Video contains graphic footage depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27611.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 March, 2011: Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End – Time For Revolution?
3 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House Intervention in Libya Would Poison the Arab Revolution By Seumas Milne In Iraq, 50,000 US occupation troops protect a government which last Friday killed 29 peaceful demonstrators demanding reform. In Bahrain, home of the US fifth fleet, the regime has been shooting and gassing protesters with British-supplied equipment… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 March, 2011: The War Party's Atrocity Porn
1 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House ‘US Builds Up Then Usurps Dictators’ By Press TV For those of us old enough to remember the events of 1979 in Iran, this is a rerun of an old movie where America had frozen bank accounts that the Shah had left in America and never paid the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 February, 2011: An Empire of Lies: Why Our Media Betrays Us
28 February, 2011 — Information Clearing House Libya : US and Europe Ramp Up Intervention By Barry Grey With dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s control over the country ebbing, the United States and its European allies are stepping up their intervention into the Libyan crisis. Their aim is to ensure that any new regime will be equally… Continue reading
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Iraq Veterans Against the War in Occupied Capitol, Madison, WI
Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.org) talk to the crowd in the occupied State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, expressing solidarity with students and workers fighting to protect public-sector unions. Video by Ryan Harvey. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 February, 2011: Weekend Update – Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
27 February, 2011 — Information Clearing House Britain Should Pull Out Of Afghanistan, says Gorbachev By Matthew Bell The ex-Soviet leader argues the US must take some blame for fanning Islamic fundamentalism. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27573.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 February, 2011: Chomsky : 'Stability, A Cold Code Word With US'
25 February, 2011 — Information Clearing House How Gaddafi’s Words Get Lost In Translation By Oliver Miles Former British ambassador to Libya Oratory is out of fashion with us – no longer do our statesmen hold the House of Commons in thrall for eight hours at a go. But Mr Gaddafi is also a bad… Continue reading
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