New York Times
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Now It Can Be Told: Libyan Civilian Deaths
The Sunday New York Times (12/18/11) featured a powerful investigation of civilian casualties resulting from the NATO war in Libya–casualties that, to hear NATO officials tell it, maybe don’t even exist. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: US Might is Right
1 November 1st, 2011 — www.killinghope.org It doesn’t matter to them if it’s untrue. It’s a higher truth. “We came, we saw, he died.” — US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We Continue reading
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The execution of Gaddafi and the attempted humiliation of Africa By Horace Campbell
Horace Campbell reconstructs ‘the decision at the highest levels’ to execute Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and considers ‘the urgency for organising to oppose the remilitarisation of Africa.’ Continue reading
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Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it expanded, much of it consisted of snide dismissals of demonstrators’ ignorance, hygiene and so on. Continue reading
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time By Nick Turse
DRONES – THEY INCREASINGLY DOT THE PLANET. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where ‘pilots’ work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a… Continue reading
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NYPD Cops entrap protestors to arrest them
2 October 2011 — October2011.org The ‘paper of record’ rewrites the record and shifts the blame Continue reading
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New York Times Reports On Libya Ethnic Cleansing of Black People Months Later
More than two months after The Wall Street Journal wrote about what amounted to ethnic cleansing of Black people in Misurata, The New York Times in today’s edition finally writes another piece about the racist attacks against Black people by the NATO-backed “rebels” from Benghazi, now installed in power. The article appears under the sanitized… Continue reading
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NYT Points Out ‘Racist Overtones’ in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread By Peter Hart
So stories about African mercenaries are a racist mantra? If that’s the case, then point a finger at media outlets like the New York Times. While the warnings about mass rapes and mercenaries fueled the supporters of the NATO bombing, few reporters have detailed–mostly notably Patrick Cockburn in the Independent–that there was never solid evidence… Continue reading
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As Economy Crumbles, Media Goes into Ritual Politics Mode: What is Michelle Bachmann wearing? By Danny Schechter
And so it came to pass, as predicted, projected, and warned about, that the economy is about to tank again. No less an authority than Nouriel Roubini, once dismissed as “Dr. Doom” for his accurate predictions of the financial crisis in 2007 and 20088, is shaking his head and pointing his finger again. Continue reading
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New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner’s Facebook fabrications By Ali Abunimah
The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations. Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
According to The Journal’s article, the ‘rebels’ refer to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’ The Journal quotes a rebel commander Ibrahim al-Halbous saying, of Black Libyans, ‘They should pack up,’ and that ‘Tawergha no longer exists, only Mistrata.’ Continue reading
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NATO’s “Alternate Universe” in Libya By Wayne Madsen
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli… Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity By Glen Ford
Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. Continue reading
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Media Lens: You Cannot Kill An Ideology With A Gun
The media rush to glorify Obama the ‘warrior president’ is symptomatic of a Western society that has come to view war as entirely normal. Continue reading
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange interviewed by Russia Today, criticizes Guardian, New York Times, and Facebook
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange interviewed by Russia Today, criticizes Guardian, New York Times, and Facebook. Gives his opinion on the Arab revolutions. Continue reading
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NYT Calls for Protecting Libyan Civilians by Escalating War–Like in Fallujah By Peter Hart
AC-130s were used frequently in the Iraq War, particularly in the bloody fight in the city of Fallujah–which was not often characterized by the careful sorting of targets. The Times established a record of downplaying the civilian deaths there, which might help explain why their editorial page has such faith in the careful sorting properties… Continue reading
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Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: 4 April 2011
4 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Six Warships, 600 Marines: Britain Deploys Task Force To Libya Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted Mounting Alarm Over U.S. Use Of Depleted Uranium Arms In Libya Impact Of Depleted Uranium Ammunition In The War On Libya Today It Is Libya, Continue reading
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Gaddaffi’s African “Mercenary” Story is a Disinformation Ploy by the CIA By Wayne Madsen
Experts on Africa who have traveled extensively in Libya contend that the stories emanating from the Western media that portray Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as engaging the services of black mercenaries from Sahara and sub-Sahara Africa is a disinformation ploy by the CIA to stoke racist fervor among Libyans rebelling against Gaddafi. Continue reading
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Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya By Rick Rozoff
March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Analysis Suggests Hundreds of Thousands of Unrecorded Iraqi Deaths By Les Roberts
The implications of the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs for the US standing in the Middle-East are profound. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 