By Sunday evening in Gaza, a weekend of relentless Israeli bombing has left 18 people dead and dozens wounded. Israeli propaganda insists that the attacks are about preventing “terrorism” and stopping “rockets.” But in fact, Israel provoked this violence and according to some Israeli commentators its goals are to escalate […]
Censorship
Even the best laid plans of mice and men turn sour sometimes. This is never more true than in the cointelro corporate mainstream media sphere. Dayem was caught conducting what appears to be staged media reports from Syria. [ oh, oops ] Although the seasoned spin doctor Cooper is able to coolly direct their conversation, Syrian […]
One expects academic events to be intellectually stimulating, but rarely is a gathering of scholars in Canada cause for investigation by high-ranking government officials. . In this case, the conference touched upon the new third rail of political and academic conversation in the country. Israel/Palestine : Mapping Models of Statehood […]
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The head of Libya’s interim government has threatened to use “force” to bring powerful tribal leaders to heel, after they’d declared autonomy for an oil-rich region in the east. The leader of the National Transitional Council went on to claim that pro-Gaddafi infiltrators were behind the move. [youtube]Cv92kkaiF0c[/youtube]
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[youtube]y1-n-RXmpVY[/youtube] The government’s refusal to grant foreign journalists unfettered access has deepened the fog of war. Those who get in often do so illegally and as a result are limited to reporting on the bloodshed from behind rebel-held lines. Just last week two Western journalists were killed in Homs – […]
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[ A B-1 bomber taking off from the recently ‘stolen-from-it’s-former-inhabitants-for-an-Anglo-airbase’ island of Diego Garcia ] Avoiding another war of choice will require a media that digs beyond agenda-driven analysis and prevents the debate from being curtailed. It will require a media that doesn’t permit a question of life and death […]