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US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised By Gregory Shupak
The White House made clear that Trump’s talk of pulling out of Syria was just talk (Independent, 4/4/18)–but not before numerous media figures expressed alarm that the illegal occupation might end. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Establishment – Andrew Marr And Owen Jones
Picture the scene: No.10 Downing Street, September 16: ‘a gentlemen’s-club-style reception room, given factitious poshness by two marble pillars’. The event: a book launch party hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron himself to ‘mark the publication’ of a political novel, ‘Head of State’, by the BBC’s senior interviewer and former political editor, Andrew Marr. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Media’s Hypocritical Oath – Mandela And Economic Apartheid By David Edwards
What does it mean when a notoriously profit-driven, warmongering, climate-killing media system mourns, with one impassioned voice, the death of a principled freedom fighter like Nelson Mandela? Continue reading
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More on Nigeria’s Hidden History By William Bowles
This particular history haunts Africa to this day and one that the British Establishment have yet to pay for, for it resulted in the deaths of millions and almost led to the break-up of Nigeria. The results determined the nature of the Nigeria of today including all the talk about post-colonial ‘corruption’. And, it should… Continue reading
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Snowden ‘not the source’ of Middle East surveillance leak – Guardian
The Guardian insists that the latest leaks published by the Independent revealing a UK-backed internet-monitoring station in the Middle East were not from Snowden. “I have never provided any journalistic materials to the Independent,” the paper cites him. He speculated that the UK government intentionally leaked the materials to create the impression that the release… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion By David Cromwell
A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, ‘Chasing Ice’, depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever filmed. An on-screen graphic emphasises the huge scale of the ice collapse: Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Mystery Of The Missing Clocks By David Edwards
The truth peeks out at us from the most unexpected places. It can be seen, for example, in the empty spaces where one might otherwise hope to find a clock in shops. The average retailer doesn’t approve of customers clock-watching – they might realise they have something more important to do and cut short their… Continue reading
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PAVEMENT INJUSTICE – CAMPAIGN AGAINST ON-THE-SPOT FINES
Our campaign against ‘Pavement Injustice’ takes on unaccountable officials in public spaces – investigating how powers such as on-the-spot fines are being used, and calling for their review and limitation. Continue reading
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UK Energy monopolies make £15 Billion in profits while people freeze
A front page story in the Independent tells us about the gigantic rip off by the six big energy companies over the cost of gas and electricity. It’s estimated that eight of ten households are cutting back on heating their homes, it’s just too expensive. Sign the Petition! Continue reading
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Media Lens: Selective Outrage – Iran And Libya
News that a fourth scientist in two years, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, had been assassinated in Iran by an unknown agency generated minimal outrage in the press. Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 1
Naturally it is the role of the enlightened West to steer Libya towards democracy. Editors working for the media conglomerate at the heart of the phone hacking police/political corruption scandal – a major attack on democracy and civil rights – presumably perceived no irony in their preaching of ‘democracy, and legal freedoms’. Words that should… Continue reading
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What is going on in Libya? By William Bowles
The BBC is reporting the ‘fall of Tripoli/Gaddafi’ except for ‘mopping up’ “pockets” of resistance. On the other hand, here is a report, including audio that says the opposite Continue reading
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NYT Points Out ‘Racist Overtones’ in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread By Peter Hart
So stories about African mercenaries are a racist mantra? If that’s the case, then point a finger at media outlets like the New York Times. While the warnings about mass rapes and mercenaries fueled the supporters of the NATO bombing, few reporters have detailed–mostly notably Patrick Cockburn in the Independent–that there was never solid evidence… 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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Bumrushing the Syrian Revolution with the Help of The Independent
So I guess that foreign journos have little to chew on except reports relayed by dissidents and their own, understandable resentment at Bashar al-Assad’s attempt to dominate the news cycle. Even so, I think The Independent’s Alastair Beach or his editors reached a new low in submissive fluffing of the Syrian revolution. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 1
All revolutions are not equal. While Libya is deemed worthy of the West’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ – express delivery by B-2 bomber, F-15 fighter and cruise missile – protesters elsewhere have been denied such Western largesse. In response to the atrocities in Yemen, for example, Obama has sent mere words. The reason, as one astute commentator… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 23-24 March 2011
24 March 2011 19:10:02 — creative-i.info 24 March 2011 Global Research: BREAKING NEWS: Russia’s Ambassador to Libya dismissed for Calling President Medvedev “A Traitor” RT: Why Libyan uprising is not “people toppling dictator” Global Research: Why France Was So Keen to Attack Libya RT: Revolution pandemic France: Racist Butcher of Haiti, Vietnam, Syria, Algeria, First to Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The whole tone of the Independent interview was uncritical and respectful; a bland and meek summation of the sincere and well-intentioned thoughts of a man with the blood of untold numbers of victims on his hands: men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and, indeed, in Palestine itself. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 