war crimes
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PCHR: 19th Day of Continuous IOF Attacks Across the Gaza Strip
As the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their indiscriminate attacks across the Gaza Strip for the nineteenth consecutive day, the number of Palestinian civilian deaths continues to rise. Continue reading
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Israeli Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza
Israeli Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza, video Continue reading
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PCHR: 17th Day of Continuous IOF Attacks cross the Gaza Strip: 26 Palestinians Killed, Including 6 Children and 3 Women
As the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip for the 16th consecutive day, the number of Palestinian civilian deaths continues to rise amidst massive destruction of buildings and property. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Civilian casualties escalate in Gaza
Wounded Palestinians pour into overrun hospitals on the 10th day of Israel’s offensive Continue reading
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NATO’s Inferno By William Bowles
I know I shouldn’t be surprised but nevertheless I am. Surprised firstly that I live in a barbaric culture that has been able to masquerade as civilised and secondly, that it has been able to persuade the world that it possesses civilised credentials in the first place. And thirdly, that it has been able to… Continue reading
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Israel: A wolf dressed in victim’s clothes and why the destruction of Lebanon is a strategic disaster for the Empire By William Bowles
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down said the Wolf. Well the Wolf is huffing and puffing but the house is not built of straw and Hezbollah (how is it spelt? Hez or Hiz?) are proving to be a very tenacious opponent. Okay, Israel has overwhelming orthodox military power but has… Continue reading
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Ariel Sharon still killing from (almost) beyond the grave By William Bowles
So even from his deathbed Ariel Sharon lives on—to kill. As I stated in ‘Just testing the waters’, the murderous terror bombing was planned months ago. It’s Guernica all over again, reports are coming in that Israel has been using banned weapons on Lebanon, phosphorus and so-called vacuum bombs. Continue reading
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Israel – Britain’s Imperialist Rottweiler By William Bowles
Frankly, I am beside myself with despair and anger at the actions of the Israeli government which have, as one commentator put it, more in common with the Nazi onslaught on the Warsaw Ghetto than any nonsense about defending the Israeli people from ‘terrorism’. Continue reading
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Media Lens Guest: Kidnapped by Israel – The British Media and the Invasion of Gaza By Jonathan Cook
Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the “World in brief” section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip to “detain” two Palestinians Israel claims are members of Hamas. Continue reading
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Pulling corpses out of the hat By William Bowles
There can be no doubt that the ‘death’ of ‘Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’ is part of a carefully planned disinformation campaign designed to divert attention away from the slaughter of Haditha (and elsewhere), a campaign that the corporate and state media have gleefully participated in. Indeed, ‘al-Zarqawi’ is itself a psy-ops programme in its own right,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Exchange With BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson
9 June 2006 — Media Lens On June 6, we sent the following email to the BBC’s Baghdad Correspondent Andrew North, World Affairs Editor John Simpson and Director of News Helen Boaden: Who would guess from your reports and commentary tonight (BBC1, Ten O’Clock News) that the US-UK ‘coalition’ had anything to do with the Continue reading
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Media Lens: Silence in the Service of Power
In November last year, as many as 24 Iraqi civilians – among them 11 women and children – were killed by US marines in Haditha, western Iraq. The New York Times has described the atrocity as possibly “the gravest case involving misconduct by American ground forces in Iraq”. Initial US army reports had suggested the… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘You Could Kill Whoever You Wanted’
An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: “The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast.” In the same way, no matter how deeply media corporations may be compromised by profit-orientation and links to establishment power, some journalists will always be willing to respond reasonably to criticism. Continue reading
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Re “historical curiosity” or the semiotics of a war crime By William Bowles
Is it simply a historical curiosity or do you think … [the memos have] some relevance to what is happening in Iraq at the moment? The question whacked me between the eyes for what it revealed about the sick mindset of the smug and sanctimonious bastards at the BBC’s misnamed news department (I await expectantly… Continue reading
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Media Misinformation Roundup: How the BBC and the Guardian transform torture into bad PR and “history” for the occupiers By William Bowles
19 February 2006 The Western propaganda onslaught is relentless and most goes unnoticed largely because it appears to be ‘objective’ reporting. What is important to note with this alleged news is the insidious nature of the way events are presented to us, cloaked in seemingly innocuous language, yet an entire mindset is embedded in the Continue reading
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BBC Newsspeak – ‘Credible sources’ By William Bowles
By now it must surely be obvious to pretty well everyone that the BBC’s messing with reality is rife, the twists and turns are tortuous and on-going as anyone following the British State’s Broadcasting Company’s coverage of the White Phosphorus will know. The Cat’s Dream Website pretty well blew it apart, so much so that… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Tragic Blindness of the Embedded BBC – White Phosphorus, Fallujah And Unreported Atrocities
Readers may recall from previous media alerts that we did not know then whether unusual or banned weapons – including cluster bombs, depleted uranium, napalm, white phosphorus and poisonous gas – had been used in Fallujah, or whether atrocities had been committed by ‘coalition’ forces against civilians. We did know, however, that the BBC had… Continue reading
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The BBC’s Big White (Phosphorus) Lie By William Bowles
Finally, the ‘white phosphorus’ obscenity made it into the BBC’s main news, at least for a couple of days before being relegated into the Beeb’s dustbin of ‘allegations’ which of course, at least according the BBC, is where the story belongs. Of course, ‘making it into the news’ is a bit of a misnomer as… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Dark Heart of Robin Cook’s ‘Ethical’ Foreign Policy – Part 1
22 August 2005 — Media Lens August 6 And The Barbarians Of The Dark Ages Every death is a tragedy to be mourned. August 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the agonizing deaths of 140,000 Japanese people in the city of Hiroshima. In her article, ‘Eight Hundred Metres From The Hypocentre,’ Yamaoka Michiko described her Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Mysterious Case of the Missing World Tribunal on Iraq
Media Lens has detected a recent shift in media reporting. It is hard to quantify, but there is a palpable uneasiness amongst media professionals at the increasing rise of the ‘blogosphere’ and internet-based ‘alternative’ media sites. Joe and Jo Public are increasingly aware that the news and commentary distributed by the BBC, ITN, Channel 4… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 