television
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The BBC’s ‘Why Poverty?’ Series: A Missed Opportunity
The Why Poverty project is a recent collaboration between the Open University and the BBC that attempts to highlight the causes of global poverty and explain the different contexts in which it is experienced… In my view, however, parts of the BBC 4 series, as well as the overall narrative of the project were not… Continue reading
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Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot
Then Secretary of State James Baker’s vow to: “reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age” was being minutely executed over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion and occupation. Continue reading
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History is repeated as the international community turns its back on Gaza By Raji Sourani
In Gaza today, we are sitting, waiting for the next phase of Israel’s offensive. For more than three days now, the attacks have relentlessly continued. The streets are deserted as people are too afraid to move. But still civilians are being killed and injured. The precise number is impossible to know at this stage, as… Continue reading
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The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism By John Pilger
The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international conventions that have protected Britons in places of upheaval. Continue reading
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‘Do some research!’ Christine Assange steamrolls Western journalism
Julian Assange’s mother slammed Western media’s lack of research and grasp of basic facts in an interview with Australian television, as the host tried to get her to “address the allegations” of free speech suppression in Ecuador. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Man Who Knew Everyone’ – Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press By David Edwards
Gore Vidal took great delight in demolishing the fragile confections of ‘mainstream’ politics. While corporate journalists typically portray US Presidents as benign demigods, Vidal described George W. Bush as ‘the stupidest man in the United States’. Continue reading
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Marikana: NUM: Rival union 'may have planned' mine violence
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) secretary general Frans Baleni put the toll at 36 and blamed the unrest on the rival Association of Mineworkers and Communication Union making promises which could never be delivered and, in the process, organising an illegal action which led to the loss of lives. Continue reading
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The battle of Damascus has begun By Thierry Meyssan
The Battle of Damascus is not intended to topple President Bashar al-Assad, but to fracture the Syrian Army to better ensure the domination of Israel and the U.S. over the Middle East. While the city is bracing for a new assault by foreign mercenaries, Thierry Meyssan takes stock of the situation. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 March 2012: Israel Intelligence Agrees Iran Is Not After N-bomb: Report
19 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel Intelligence Agrees Iran Is Not After N-bomb: Report By Press TV Several senior Israeli officials, who spoke to AP in recent days clearly, said Israel has come around to the US view that no final decision to build a bomb has been made by Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30853.htm Continue reading
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Israel raids West Bank TV stations
Israeli troops have raided two Palestinian television stations in the West Bank, seizing transmitters and other equipment. The Palestinian PM denounced the operation, calling it “an oppressive and monstrous” move which violates “all international laws.” Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9-10 February 2012
10 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 Bradley Manning to face formal trial on February 23 The Guardian The formal trial stage in the case of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning will begin on February 23, the US military has announced, when the soldier will be arraigned on all 22 counts relating to the largest leak Continue reading
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Breaking News. SYRIA: Arab League Head of Mission Refutes Western Media Propaganda By Michel Chossudovsky
The head of the Arab League monitoring group in Syria, Sudan’s General Mustafa Dabi, has made “contradictory statements” on the human rights situation in Syria, which no doubt will eventually be erased from the record as not in keeping with the official propaganda line. Continue reading
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Hip-Hop Against the World! BY Jared Ball
Propaganda agencies operate on the principle that everything can be turned to advantage, even the cultural properties of the oppressed.‘ Like jazzman Louis Armstrong’s ‘good will’ tours for the U.S. State Department in the Fifties, rappers today are dispatched on foreign missions to ‘cleanse an image that simply defies cleanliness.’ Hip Hop, the culture that… Continue reading
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Sonny Rollins 'Jazz Casual'
From the late 1950’s tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and guitarist Jim Hall play on the television show “Jazz Casual” with Bob Cranshaw on bass and Ben Riley drums. The quartet that recorded the amazing ‘The Bridge’, Rollins’ first album after several years meditating and practicing in the dead of night on Manhattan Bridge (cf. ‘The… Continue reading
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Rayyisse, Censorship and Hollywood Qatar around Bab Al Aziziya
Rayyisse is an Algerian who has played an important role in fighting the western NATO Propaganda through hundreds of videos on his youtube channel about the situation in Libya (1). This morning I noticed that he uploaded a video which presents arguments for the use of fake footage by the western media in order to… Continue reading
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Welcome to the world of terrorist television By William Bowles
I venture to say that the timing of the attempt to silence Libya’s electronic media is in part a response to the rebels assassination of its own military leader Younes and the excellent PR it gave the Libyan state. 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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As In Serbia And Elsewhere, U.S. And NATO Target Media In Libya
This is not the first time that NATO and the U.S. have targeted journalists and media outlets. Other incidents included the deliberate targeting of journalists in occupied territories in the Middle East, the NATO bombardment of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999 and the American army bombing in Kabul and Baghdad of Al… Continue reading
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