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Obama Administration Copies Bush’s Sidelining of Weapons Inspectors In Iraq
One of John Kerry’s main arguments for bombing Syria is that the Assad government stalled and delayed UN weapons inspectors Continue reading
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New York Times Puts Launch Point of Chem Weapons Rockets Inside Rebel Contested Area By Scott Creighton
The New York Times is attempting to bolster John Kerry’s baseless claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on their own people and in doing so, they seem to have provided some hard evidence to the contrary. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Heading to War With Syria By Peter Hart
There is still no firm public evidence that would tie these specific attacks to the Assad government. But all around the U.S. media the signs are clear that war is on the way. The front page of USA Today (8/27/13) displays U.S. bombs: Continue reading
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“Doctors” Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims are Aiding Terrorists By Tony Cartalucci
The “evidence” upon which the West is propping up its narrative of the Syrian government using chemical weapons against large numbers of civilians hinges so far entirely on claims made by “Doctors Without Borders.” Continue reading
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Government Should Not Define What a Reporter Is — or Isn’t By Walter Brasch
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn’t a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a “real” reporter is a “salaried agent of a media company.” Continue reading
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Bait-and-Switch on Stop-and-Frisk By Jim Naureckas
There’s a lot of misinformation coming from the media on the unconstitutional police strategy known as stop-and-frisk. There’s a powerful urge to believe, it seems, that abusing the Fourth Amendment rights of young men of color somehow makes the rest of us safer. Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Snowden the 'Spy,' Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates By Peter Hart
23 August 2013 — FAIR Blog On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a “spy,” and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York’s stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are slashed, say the TV reports. But are they actually…going up? Watch it all this on this week’s episode: Continue reading
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On pretext of chemical attack US prepares military assault on Syria By Barry Grey
US officials have outlined a series of options that are being considered for a direct assault by American and allied military forces against Syria, using Wednesday’s alleged chemical weapons attack as the pretext. The stepped-up military preparations make clear that the events on Wednesday are part of a provocation to justify yet another neo-colonial war… Continue reading
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The West Strikes Back in Syria By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
No sooner than the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus – within 72 hours, in fact – the Syrian opposition figures based in Istanbul, Turkey, have claimed that up to 1400 people have been killed in chemical weapons attacks by the government forces on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Wednesday morning. Continue reading
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Without investigative journalists, the UK will move closer to a police state
Without healthy, thriving newspapers and investigative journalists prepared to ask difficult questions of security services, the UK will move closer to a bona fide police state, British journalist Tony Gosling told RT. Continue reading
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What Do You Call Edward Snowden? By Peter Hart
On CBS Evening News (8/13/13), anchor Scott Pelley gave viewers a brief–and very misleading–update on Edward Snowden Continue reading
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Boston Marathon Bombing Timeline
The following timeline of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured many more provides a platform to better understand how the event was publicly presented by corporate and alternative news media. The chronological assemblage of coverage is not comprehensive of all reports published on the incident but is an ongoing project… Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Defining Drone Deaths in Yemen
The United States has reportedly carried out nine drone attacks in the last few weeks in Yemen, generating headlines about the targeting and killing of suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the impoverished country. But how can media know for sure who is being killed? Continue reading
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Who Dies in Yemen Drone Strikes? By Rebecca Hellmich
A headline is sometimes worth a thousand words, and this was definitely the case after a deadly drone strike occurred in Yemen last week Continue reading
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Media: Iran Has Space Program–Some See Crisis! By Peter Hart
A well-respected research group posted a short article on its website about the location of a second launchpad for Iran’s space program. That’s not big news–but it can be made to sound like scary news in the New York Times. Continue reading
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The courage of Bradley Manning will inspire others to seize their moment of truth By John Pilger
The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. This was not deemed mainstream… Continue reading
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The Missiles That Brought Down TWA Flight 800 By David Swanson
If you watch Kristina Borjesson’s new film, TWA Flight 800, you’ll see a highly persuasive case that this passenger jet full of passengers was brought down by missiles, killing all on board. Continue reading
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The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality By István Mészáros
Two closely connected propositions are at the center of this intervention: If development in the future is not sustainable development, there will be no significant development at all, no matter how badly needed; only frustrated attempts to square the circle, as in the last few decades, marked by ever more elusive “modernizing” theories and practices,… Continue reading
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