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Media Lens: Libyan Elections – Burying The Amnesty Report By David Edwards
And indeed everyone, of course, knew that ‘democracy’ in Iraq had to be ‘sensitive’ to American concerns, not least in regard to ‘guys with turbans’ (which sounded like a euphemism for ‘towelheads’). It was obvious what ‘acceptable to the Americans’ meant for the claim that the elections were in any real sense ‘free’. Continue reading
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Media Lens: When Populism Is Dangerous For Democracy – To The Media Gallows With ‘Controversial’ George Galloway
George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media. Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 2
Ironically, like other media that dismissed highly credible scientific analyses of the death toll in Iraq – published in one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the Lancet – the BBC has been reporting hundreds of deaths in Homs based on anecdotal evidence and highly questionable sources. 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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NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties By Glen Ford
The Times recent concern over Libyan victims of NATO bombing lacks credibility, given its wildly biased reporting of the war. ‘Thousands of black Libyan citizens and African migrant workers are dead at least partially as a result of western media lies.’ Continue reading
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Now It Can Be Told: Libyan Civilian Deaths
The Sunday New York Times (12/18/11) featured a powerful investigation of civilian casualties resulting from the NATO war in Libya–casualties that, to hear NATO officials tell it, maybe don’t even exist. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be agreed by 2015 and come into… Continue reading
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New York Times Reports On Libya Ethnic Cleansing of Black People Months Later
More than two months after The Wall Street Journal wrote about what amounted to ethnic cleansing of Black people in Misurata, The New York Times in today’s edition finally writes another piece about the racist attacks against Black people by the NATO-backed “rebels” from Benghazi, now installed in power. The article appears under the sanitized… 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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Leaked Plan of Western Governments for “Post-Gaddafi Libya” By Tom Coghlan
Western governments have helped prepare a blueprint for a post-Gaddafi Libya that would retain much of the regime’s security infrastructure to avoid an Iraq-style collapse into anarchy. Continue reading
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The Left has lost its way over Libya By William Bowles
I think it’s time to take a look at the timeline of the latest barbarian attack on the defenceless of the world. I think it reveals far more about how the left in the West operates, what are its motivations, than it does about the aims of the Empire (which should surely by now be… 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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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual By John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch is a 21st century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is missing; the absurdity of his power is the same. The Daily Beast wanted victories; it got them. The Sun wanted dead Argies; Gotcha! Of the bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said, ‘There is going to be collateral damage. And if you really want to… Continue reading
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Murdoch’s News Corp Newslinks 14-15 July 2011
15 July 2011 — williambowles.info 15 July 2011 Murdoch outfoxed in UK as trouble brews across the pond Russiatoday.ru Today at 06:50 RT Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced media empire is now under FBI investigation over the possibility that the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families were intercepted.” Continue reading
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The Fourth Estate is bankrupt By William Bowles
How can such a press be considered free or independent in any real sense of the word? Controlled either by the state or three large corporations, the MSM plays an intrinsic role in maintaining the status quo and it does it quite openly. Until now that is… 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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Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
According to The Journal’s article, the ‘rebels’ refer to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’ The Journal quotes a rebel commander Ibrahim al-Halbous saying, of Black Libyans, ‘They should pack up,’ and that ‘Tawergha no longer exists, only Mistrata.’ Continue reading
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Media Lens: You Cannot Kill An Ideology With A Gun
The media rush to glorify Obama the ‘warrior president’ is symptomatic of a Western society that has come to view war as entirely normal. Continue reading
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Call for Attacks on Libyan Infrastructure Provides Glimpse of NATO’s Real Motives By Conn Hallinan
‘The General suggested that NATO should be freed from restraints that precluded attacking infrastructure targets.’ Let us be clear what ‘infrastructure’ means: ‘The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants and schools’ (Random House Dictionary, Second Edition). Continue reading
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