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Bizzaro Capitalism By Kim Petersen
Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher has come up with a novel proposal for raising more money for the cash-strapped USA: charge the victims of US aggression. Continue reading
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Disclosure and Deceit: Secrecy as the Manipulation of History, not its Concealment By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under the UK Official Secrets Act he responds in accordance with the letter of the law – since it is forbidden to withhold or destroy, his only option is to publish. The question remains for historians, investigators, and educated citizens: what is the… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News 28 February, 2011: Afghanistan / ‘Cyberdefense’ / Libya / Korea / Pakistan / Venezuela / Ivory coast / Israel
28 February, 2011 — Stop NATO 1. Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attacks 2. NATO Commander Promotes “In-Depth Cyberdefense” 3. U.S., NATO Allies Prepare For Military Intervention In Libya 4. U.S.-South Korea Military Exercise Labelled Preparation For War 5. Editorial: World Craves Peace, Stability 6. Afghan War: NATO Loses 61st Soldier This Year 7. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks from the Independent Media 15-16 February, 2011
16 February, 2011 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media 16 February, 2011 “Egypt’s Military Junta to Deploy More Troops to Sinai” The doves return to Al-Arakib Hungry Gazans Feed Egyptian Troops Winds of change in the Middle East African Americans and Egyptians: A Comparison Influencing each Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks from the Independent Media 15-16 February, 2011
16 February, 2011 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media 16 February, 2011 “Egypt’s Military Junta to Deploy More Troops to Sinai” The doves return to Al-Arakib Hungry Gazans Feed Egyptian Troops Winds of change in the Middle East African Americans and Egyptians: A Comparison Influencing each Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 December, 2010: Why They Hate Julian Assange
1 December, 2010 — Information Clearing House The cover-up WikiLeaks Cable Reveals Secret Pledge to Protect US at Iraq Inquiry: By Robert Booth Ministry of Defence told US that UK had ‘put measures in place’ to protect American interests during Chilcot inquiry. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26968.htm Russians Refuted U.S. Claim of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe By Gareth Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 November, 2010
27 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Radical Islam attacks Central Asia 26.11.2010 | 14:24 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr Hizb ut-Tahrir and other similar international radical Islamic political organizations have intensified their activities in Central Asia. In Tajikistan several dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been arrested… It was reported that Hizb ut-Tahrirwas “occupying Kyrgyzstan” Continue reading
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“Russia & China cooperate much better than ever before” – RT Top Stories
Vice Chancellor of research and international relations at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, Evgeny Bazhanov, spoke with RT about China’s overwhelming growth and the challenges it faces. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: AFGHANISTAN — “BIG BEASTS” BIG BLOODBATH
At the heart of the uncertainty lies the internet and how to make it pay. For 100 years the corporate mass media has flourished thanks to its monopoly of the means of mass communication. Reviewing the history of the British media, James Curran and Jean Seaton write that the industrialisation of the press in the… Continue reading
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Team Obama/Cult Obama By Bill Blum
I could go through the talk Obama gave in Cairo and point out line by line the hypocrisies, the mere platitudes, the plain nonsense, and the rest. (“I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.” — No mention of it being outsourced, probably to the very country he was speaking in,… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: CARTOON KOREA – FILTERED TO FIT: How The Media Keep Us Angry, Ignorant And Afraid
The message being delivered is that North Korea is of the James Bond school of cackling, malevolent villains. This is signalled through unsubtle trigger words whose true meaning is hidden but understood Continue reading
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Media Lens: David Aaronovitch – A Different Kind of Compassion
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media January 10, 2008 — Media Lens If “The wages of sin is death”, the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his Continue reading
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Media Lens wins the Gandhi Foundation Peace Award And An Appeal For Support
The Gandhi Foundation Peace Award And An Appeal For Support MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 13, 2007 We are happy to report that we will be accepting the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award on December 2. See here: http://www.gandhifoundation.org/peaceaward.html Continue reading
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A beginner’s guide to creating a ‘crisis’ By William Bowles
Poor old North Korea, the latest bogeyman, its leader variously described as a tyrant, psychopath etc, etc. is once more the focus of Western ire. Now in all likelyhood the reason is because things ain’t going too well in Iraq or Afghanistan and the Iranians have told the West to shove it, so isn’t it… Continue reading
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Book Review: Illusion and Reality By William Bowles
Around 1990, when I was living in New York, I, along with two or three other people were invited to an evening at the North Korean Mission to the United Nations where we were plied with a meal of amazing and delicious Korean cuisine followed by an interminable and utterly boring (to my jaded, Western… Continue reading
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Let the reader be aware By William Bowles
Oh what an irony that the ‘responsible’ press is so prone to quoting Goebbels’ famous line as if by saying it somehow cancels out the lies they tell us. It’s as if they’re telling us, ‘If, by some chance you should be on to us, this is our caveat emptor that lets us off the… Continue reading
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Off the Hook? By William Bowles
Well predictably the media here in the UK has, by and large, given Blah a clean bill of health, not because he didn’t lie but because he did such a good job of lying. Apparently, the more articulate you are at the business of dissembling, the more kudos you acquire. This is the ‘post-modern’ world… Continue reading
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From Burgers to Baghdad By William Bowles
For over fifty years , the West has carried on a campaign that pushes the idea that the superiority of the ‘Western way of life’ based upon unlimited ‘choice’ and the ‘free market’ as opposed to the drab and conformist communist world, is the best of all possible worlds. They sold us the idea, that… Continue reading
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Instant Replay By William Bowles
As the war drums beat with ever greater insistence in Washington DC, once more we see the UN being used as a pawn in the USUK’s grand imperialist strategies to commandeer the key resources of the planet and to crush any and all opposition to its rule. We cannot allow an ‘instant replay’ of Iraq… Continue reading
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