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Egypt Newslinks 8-9 February, 2011
9 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt 9 February, 2011 A longing for democracy Egypt: The danger to the revolution comes from Washington We’re All Egyptians Now! As Tahrir Square Goes so goes the Middle East? Let It Cut Both Ways-US Foreign Aid & Atate Sponsored Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 8-9 February, 2011
8 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt 9 February, 2011 A longing for democracy Egypt: The danger to the revolution comes from Washington We’re All Egyptians Now! As Tahrir Square Goes so goes the Middle East? Let It Cut Both Ways-US Foreign Aid & Atate Sponsored Continue reading
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Sarah Vaughn ‘Over the Rainbow’
The Divine One Sarah Vaughn ‘Over the Rainbow’ Follow my videos on vodpod 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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Barbie bites back By William Bowles
Mattel’s double whammy The toy company, Mattel has had to recall 18 million of its products (2 million of them in the UK), all manufactured in China, for various health and safety safety reasons including high levels of lead in the paint and magnets that come off. Coincidentally, the New York Times ran a puff Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burying the Insurgency in Iraq
Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the BBC, like the media more generally, has consistently attempted to delegitimise armed opposition to Britain and America’s illegal occupation of Iraq. Continue reading
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CSI Baghdad By William Bowles
The George Tenet affair illustrates the ‘wheels within wheels’ strategy of the propaganda war being waged over the abject failure that is the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it’s a failure on two fronts: the failure of the invasion itself to establish a secure beachhead in the Middle East and the imperium’s failure to… Continue reading
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A Damn Fine Mess By William Bowles
27 May 2004 So where is the demand from the so-called Left of the Labour government for the complete and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq? Are they too hiding behind the fig leaf of the UN? A UN that is reluctant to takeover the minefield created by the occupation and one complicated by the juggling of Continue reading
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Truth and Consequences By William Bowles
In this age of instantaneous and interlinked communications, dominated by a handful of powerful (and interconnected) media/communications companies, the power of the press to shape our knowledge let alone our opinions has taken centre stage in the struggle ‘for hearts and minds’ as the US political pundits put it during the epic struggle of the… Continue reading
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The voice of the imperium squeeks By William Bowles
This is a critical period for the imperium. Stretched to breaking point with widespread dissaffection amongst its troops on the ground after only nine short months, the Bush clique is faced with a genuine dilemma as well as a rapidly approaching election. Continue reading
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Imperialism considered as a one-night stand By William Bowles
What kind of imperialism is this ‘new imperialism’ of the ‘neo-cons’? Is it truly a ‘one-night stand’ as the Economist described it, or was that just supercilious English snobbery manifesting itself? And indeed if they’re right, what kind of portent is it for the planet when so much power is in the hands of such… Continue reading
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Intel – al-Qu’eda – The War on Terror: Destroying the Myths By William Bowles
24 November 2003 Several related issues on my mind on this grey, London morning as I contemplate the latest ‘news’, scan the headlines and peruse my (overflowing) mailbox and all are, in some way, related (except the weather). Continue reading
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The Death of Dr David Kelly: Dark actors – dark forces? By William Bowles
Given Dr Kelly’s central role in the September document, he surely must have known well before its release in September 2002, that it contained false information to boost the case for war. So why wait until May of this year before voicing his concerns? Continue reading
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Go for the Jugular! By William Bowles
Except of course, they won’t (the media that is). We’ll be lucky if they name and shame a pinky. On both sides of the Atlantic, the frantic search for scapegoats continues apace, one of the latest being Ahmed Chalabi of the INC (favourite of the Wolfie clan) on whose ‘intelligence’ both the Pentagon and the… Continue reading
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