Propaganda
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BBC Newslinks covering Libya 26 July – 26 August 2011
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info I’ve collated these stories for future reference but I’m sure there are many readers who are also interested in how the MSM hasn’t covered the crisis. 26 August 2011UK planes target Gaddafi bunker http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-14677754 Continue reading
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Global Research: NATO’s Bloody War of Aggression in Libya Selected Articles
“War propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped.” Continue reading
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Libya: Swimming against the Tide of NATO’s Media Propaganda
If we were to believe the main stream media Tripoli is about to fall and the Rebels are closing in from all sides with their NATO airforce bombing everything that resists their infantery on the ground. Continue reading
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Video: Video of rebel successes faked?
A faked video released by the ‘rebels’ that purports to show them ‘liberating’ Libya? Continue reading
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Video: Make No Mistake: NATO committed War Crimes in Libya by grtv
This video reveals the crimes committed by NATO, as well as those committed by the Western media, which has decided to obfuscate the casualties and human suffering of the Libyan people and uphold the humanitarian fiction of NATO’s R2P mandate. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan government denies death of Gadhafi son Seattle Post Intelligencer HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, AP, RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, Associated Press In this photo taken on a government-organized tour a child walks past a poster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hanging in the median of an avenue in Zliten, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011.… Continue reading
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USCENTCOM and the Cyberwar against Libya By Martin Iqbal
In an ominous development in March this year (in the lead-up to the war on Libya and the destabilisation of Syria), US Central Command (USCENTCOM) purchased a piece of software allowing US government employees to assume multiple fake online identities, complete with false backgrounds, supporting details, and IP address masking functionality. Continue reading
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IFJ Condemns NATO Bombing at Libyan Television
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the NATO air strikes against Libyan state television which took place last Saturday in Tripoli, killing three journalists and injured fifteen staff members according to its director of the English service, Khalid Basilia. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Murdoch’s Other Moral Crimes
When Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before the House of Commons media select committee on July 19, not one of the MP inquisitors demanded accountability for News International’s biggest moral crime – its shameful role as a facilitator of war. Continue reading
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Libya: Demonization and Self-determination By Sara Flounders
But here in the center of the U.S. empire, it is important to refuse to join in the demonization and attacks used to justify atrocities committed by corporate power. Most important: Don’t echo imperialist propaganda in the midst of a war of aggression. Don’t join in a lynch mob being organized by the Pentagon! Continue reading
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Outsourcing power (and its consequences) By William Bowles
In a sense the corporate press and the state have been hoisted by their own petard: by outsourcing propaganda to the corporate media it has exposed the media as an integral component of state/corporate control but one no longer under the direct control of the Establishment. Ergo, the arrogant bastards who run News Corp. Continue reading
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The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya By Ronda Hauben
Looking back at the sequence of events by which the issue of Libya was brought to the Security Council, leads to an important observation. It was not a Security Council member nation which started this process. Nor was it the Arab League. Rather it was a party that one could argue had no legitimate basis… Continue reading
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Video: Bent Cops on Parade By Craig Murray
Aren’t members of parliament amazing? Suddenly they all have noticed that the Murdoch influence is a cancer in society, which is something the rest of us have known for 30 years. Equally suddenly they have noticed that Andy Hayman is a lying buffoon, whereas before they took him as a great bastion against terrorism whose… Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC Bombast – Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence
The newscaster – Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, perhaps Emily Maitlis or Nick Owen – looks directly into the camera with the requisite degree of gravitas. The message is clear: ‘You can trust us. We have no agenda. This is the BBC. This is The News.’ Continue reading
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‘Public Opinion’: The Phantom Menace By John Brissenden
Any 11 year old who saw Avatar or The Matrix has a basic understanding of constructed reality; teenagers carefully construct and reconstruct their online identity; politicians and pundits alike talk without shame or irony about presentation, optics and symbolism rather than policy. It is no different on the left. Resistance to the cult of austerity… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Rape, Mercenaries, And Bloodbaths On The Scale Of Yemen? The Media Blank Amnesty’s Failure To Find Evidence In Libya
It ought to be surprising that Amnesty and Human Rights Watch exposed US-UK propaganda in a way that the entire pack of Western media hounds was unable or unwilling to do. But as we have described many times, with rare exceptions, journalists function as stenographers to power. Continue reading
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Patrick Cockburn: Don’t believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi
Ever since the Libyan uprising started on 15 February, the foreign media have regurgitated stories of atrocities carried out by Gaddafi’s forces. It is now becoming clear that reputable human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been unable to find evidence for the worst of these. Continue reading
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Graphic Video of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier By Susan Lindauer
NATO has been pumping propaganda out of Libya to justify its ‘humanitarian war’ against the government of Moammar Gadhaffi. Until now, NATO has succeeded in large part because ordinary citizens around the world have no access to direct intelligence on which to base their own opinions. As the former CIA Asset who covered Libya at… Continue reading
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Video: Selling Israeli Militarism Like Toothpaste
From children’s shows to national war drills, a discussion on militarism in Israeli society and gender equality in the army Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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