DEMOCRACY AND DEBATE - KILLING IRAQ
The Lancet Reports 655,000 Excess Iraqi Deaths As A Consequence Of The Invasion How do we judge the health of a free society? How do we distinguish the appearance of democracy from the reality? There...
View ArticleEATING THE PLANET
Swallowing The Context Of "Earth's Ecological Debt Crisis" The Bland Leading The Bland October 9 saw one of the Independent's explosive front-page stories on the global environment: "Earth's ecological...
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LANCET REPORT CO-AUTHOR RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS
As described in our October 18 Media Alert, 'Democracy And Debate - Killing Iraq' , a recent study published in The Lancet medical journal estimated that 655,000 Iraqi people have been killed as a...
View ArticleHANGING SADDAM HUSSEIN - BURYING WESTERN COMPLICITY
The BBC website's reporting of the judgement was big, bold and triumphal: "Celebrations hail Saddam verdict in Baghdad's Shia-dominated Sadr City." (BBC news online, November 5, 2006) The following...
View ArticleHIDING IMPERIALISM UNDER A CLOAK OF 'BENEVOLENCE'
The title above Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's column yesterday in the Independent was a real corker, joining our list of banal nuggets from the liberal media: 'Even when our foreign policy is benevolent, it...
View ArticleWAR AND PEACE - AND POVERTY
Child Poverty And The "Defence" Budget It was the Daily Telegraph, not the 'liberal' Independent or Guardian, that reported accusations last week that Tony Blair is "wasting nearly £7 billion of...
View ArticleABANDON SHIP!
The Media War-Mongers Take To The Lifeboats Comedian Armando Iannucci recently argued that humorists are increasingly taking on the 'watchdog' role that has been vacated by journalists. David...
View ArticleTHE BBC BURIES THE TRUTH WITH THE DEAD IN IRAQ
Giving Headline Billing To Military Spin Last week, yet more innocent civilian lives were claimed by a US air attack in Iraq. How many times this tragedy has been repeated across that country is...
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BORN IN THE USA - PINOCHET’S BLOODBATH
The Apparatus Of Silence It is a feature of the bureaucratic mindset that trivial details are subject to meticulous attention, while issues relating to personal and moral responsibility are dismissed...
View ArticleTHE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD
The BBC On The Haditha Massacre The title of the BBC news report was suitably 'balanced': 'Iraqi Deaths.' Not 'American Massacre,' or 'American Massacre Of Iraqi Civilians.' News anchor George Alagiah...
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