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Media Lens: The BBC, Impartiality, And The Hidden Logic Of Massacre — Part 2
Despite the input of hundreds of journalists working for numerous large, well-resourced corporations, we were unable to find a mainstream account that made sense of what was happening in Gaza. Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre – Part 1
The corporate media has been happy to echo the claim that Israel is “targeting Hamas” rather than the Palestinian people. In reality, the Palestinian people elected Hamas as its democratic government in 2006. Continue reading
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Media Lens Alert: “Not Very Interesting” – Haiti, New Orleans And Media Hypocrisy
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media September 16, 2008 On September 1, the press began warning that “the storm of the century” was about to hit New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav “bore down nearly three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city”. (‘It’s the storm of the… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, August 5, 2008 By William Blum Obama and the Empire
We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don’t do what the United States wants them to do nuclear-wise; threatening more than once to attack Pakistan if their anti-terrorist policies are not tough enough or if there would be a regime change in the nuclear-armed country not to his liking Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life May 1, 2008 www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better. ‘More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports.… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 12, 2008 The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media continued the cover up that has… Continue reading
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Observations from the Front Line: The US State of Denial By William Bowles
16 February, 2008 Observations from the Front Line Manhattan, 13 February, 2008 — For the first time, almost exactly thirty years ago, I sat where I’m sitting now, writing this, in the Broome Street Bar, corner of Broome and West Broadway. I was building the Cayman Gallery a couple of hundred yards away further up… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, December 11, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, December 11, 2007: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life December 11, 2007 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Another peace scare. Boy, that was close. The US intelligence community’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) — ‘Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities’ — makes a point… Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 2 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 22, 2007 Blaming ‘External Interference’ A striking feature of Soviet media performance on Afghanistan was its focus on “external interference” – primarily US in origin – and the role of this interference in fuelling the war. In 1988, Pravda reported that Afghan president… Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 1 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 20, 2007 Introduction The writer Simon Louvish once told the story of a group of Soviets touring the United States before the age of glasnost. After reading the newspapers and watching TV, they were amazed to find that, on the big issues, all… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report By William Blum 6 November 2007
In a sound-bite society, reality no longer matters Last month, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told assembled world leaders at the United Nations that the time had come to take action against Iran. “None disagrees,” she said, “that Iran denies the Holocaust and speaks openly of its desire to wipe a member state – mine… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Advertising Climate Disaster – The Guardian’s Readers’ Editor Responds
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 1, 2007 The Guardian this week published an article by the readers’ editor, Siobhain Butterworth, discussing “the contradiction between what the Guardian has to say about environmental issues and what it advertises”. (Butterworth, ‘Open door – The readers’ editor on… the contradiction between… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Oil Laws – Colonising Iraq’s Economic Prize
We are led to believe that Western societies are free and open. In many respects this is true: freedom of speech and the right to protest still exist, albeit within ever-tighter constraints. At root, however, much of what we see and hear in the corporate media has been shaped by money, power and greed. What… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media October 3, 2007 MEDIA ALERT: IRAQ BODY COUNT: “A VERY MISLEADING EXERCISE” Introduction The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps… Continue reading
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