Unplug the Signal: The Truth Will Not Be Televised A flow of information is constantly streaming from the television set; a bombardment of words and pictures. The speed at which this information is communicated makes it easy for the signal to take control, switching the viewer’s brain to stand-by as […]
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Mamoon Alabassi compares two “Iraq war” movies, “Avatar” and “Hurt locker”, and argues that, for Iraqis who feel de-humanized by the media, the positive depiction of non-humans in “Avatar” is welcome: “If some humans can relate to the ‘humanity’ of non-humans in fiction, then surely they would find it easier […]
Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, Mexico. This reads like it probably is genuine treaty […]
https://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/04/noam-chomsky-white-knights-and-911.html Les VisibleSmoking Mirrors11 April 2008 Noam Chomsky, White Knights and 9/11 Truth. Well now… it seems that my mention of Chomsky and Raimundo, as well as Palast (but no one chimed in to defend Palast) touched a nerve here and there. Most people agreed with what I had to […]
It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. An internet cafe in Tehran. A storm of protest hit Google last […]
Spam is the annoying junk mail that floods your inbox. But no matter what discount drugs are offered or what body parts the messages promise to enlarge, make no mistake about it – spamming is big business.
It was an audacious plan that seemed doomed to fail: In late 2006 Al Jazeera, the upstart Arabic news network twice bombed by the US military, launched an English-language channel in a bold play at taking on the biggest names in international news and beating them at their own game. […]
[ I love the love-fest going on over RT – in the comments section on the youtube page for this clip . ABCBBCMSNBCCBSCNNFOX have let us down too badly for too long by jumping on the post 911, nationalistic, flag in corner screen, fear-pumped, ratings driven, ad-revenue-grabbing, Bush II stenography […]
So the latest magazine and newspaper readership and circulation figures are out and most publications’ numbers are down. Quelle surprise! And with a recession on, too — go figure. Let’s put the bloodbath into some sort of context. Based on ABC circulation figures, here’s how our biggest-circulating newspapers fared (Audited […]