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Nelson Mandela’s Final Battle: Dying With Dignity By Danny Schechter
As thousands of South Africans hold prayer sessions outside “his” Pretoria hospital, and with the world media still on an escalating ‘death watch,’ inside, there’s been a clash among and between family members, government officials trying to control and spin health information, and, even, doctors who have been cited, wrongly, in court battles about his… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Snowden & Hayden, Pro-Equality 'Bias,' Climate Coverage By Peter Hart
On FAIR TV this week: CBS covers the Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal by asking Bush-era NSA chief Michael Hayden for help. And NPR wonders if media coverage of marriage equality is too tilted in favor of… equality? Plus network TV doesn’t cover Obama’s climate speech–but the fake newscast at Comedy Central does. Continue reading
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The Pentagon was behind Egypt's Military Coup By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
People are protesting because their living standards have collapsed and they saw in this new government an avenue of change. But bear in mind: the United States is supporting both sides and their objective and their strategy is to destabilize this country as a nation-state.” Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 28-29 June 2013
29 June 2013 — williambowles.info 29 June 2013 ‘Bradley Manning leaked classified info cables to WikiLeaks’ Hindu Business Line US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning disclosed potentially damaging classified information in at least 117 of the more than 250,000 US State Department cables he has acknowledged sending to WikiLeaks, according to evidence prosecutors presented at his … http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/bradley-manning-leaked-classified-info-cables-to-wikileaks/article4859916.ece Continue reading
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Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies Continue reading
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Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: “The West should Pay War Reparations to Syria”. Interview with Michel Chossudovsky
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, Montreal, on the back of UN concern for the Syrian war spilling over into other countries. Continue reading
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FAIR TV 8 June 2013: Bradley Manning, Afghan Atrocity, David Gregory’s Phony Gotcha
This week: What’s the press saying about the Bradley Manning trial? We take a look at a strange CBS Evening News report about a U.S. atrocity in Afghanistan, and David Gregory thinks he found an Obama flip-flop. Continue reading
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FAIR TV 8 June 2013: Bradley Manning, Afghan Atrocity, David Gregory's Phony Gotcha
This week: What’s the press saying about the Bradley Manning trial? We take a look at a strange CBS Evening News report about a U.S. atrocity in Afghanistan, and David Gregory thinks he found an Obama flip-flop. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
3 June 2013 — www.boilingfrogspost.com “The Entire Western Media: A Collection of Bought-and-Paid-for Whores.” When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Continue reading
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Suppressed By The BBC By Craig Murray
I was invited then disinvited to discuss Bradley Manning on BBC Breakfast TV this morning. I was delighted and really surprised that the BBC were prepared to give such prime media exposure to the case against the persecution of Manning. I should have realised it would not be allowed to happen. Continue reading
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Interview Given by President al-Assad to Lebanese Al-Manar TV
DAMASCUS, (SANA)-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcasted on Thursday Continue reading
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Video: The World Against Monsanto: Holding the Corrupt Accountable
Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. Continue reading
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Video: FAIR TV: PBS and Koch, Guatemala and the U.S. Role and Rumsfeld Meets the Press
This week: PBS won’t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch–for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 May 2013: Can Black Politics Be Revived? The Obama "Dog Whistle" & More
22 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Can Black Politics Be Revived? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s presidency has been disastrous for African Americans, who have been economically crushed and disconnected from their historical roots in social struggle.Political fantasists now urge us to put our faith in Continue reading
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Covert Israeli Forces Inside Syria Within Rebel Ranks? Israeli Military Vehicle Seized: Report
Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al Qseir inside Syrian territory, pointing to the presence of covert Israeli forces operating within the ranks of “opposition” rebel forces. Continue reading
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Dead Journalists and the Newseum Scandal By Peter Hart
On May 10, the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone reported that the museum was being criticized by “conservative outlets and a pro-Israel think tank” over the inclusion in its Journalists Memorial of two reporters from Al-Aqsa TV, which is run by Hamas. Continue reading
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BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the… Continue reading
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Interview: Pentagon Plans to Penetrate Africa
The U.S. is preparing “to militarily penetrate the African continent” by building up its military resources within the Mediterranean Sea, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO organization. Continue reading
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Syria: Nusra Front claimed responsibility for at least 600 terror acts
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says the al-Nusra Front terrorist group has claimed responsibility for carrying out at least 600 acts of terror in the past year. Continue reading
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