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'Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash -'–
1984 by George Orwell.
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Snippets - Short items found on the web.The lies they tell - A small selection of the lies, disinformation and propaganda coming from the war-mongers. Last update 17 October 2005.September 11 - Some alternative points of view.'Freedom of Speech' in the US under George W. Bush.Noam Chomsky “Recently acclaimed as the "world's greatest intellectual", Chomsky has also been criticised as a hypocrite and for his support of Zionism.”IslamophobiaMedia Bias - Palestine and Israel. Gutter Journalism in Times of War by Ahmed Amr, 10 October 2001.Human Rights Record of the US in 2000 from The Information Office of China's State Council, 03 March 2001.Human Rights Record of the US in 2004 from The Information Office of China's State Council, 03 March 2005.Paranoid Fantasies About 911 Detract From Real Issues by Gerard Holmgren, 15 February 2003.The whole world's against us by Aviv Lavie, 24 June 2002. An Israeli article on the Jewish blackmail of US media. “The Americans understand only money.”The meaning of life by Anas Altikriti, 6 May 2003. “Justice, peace and prosperity will never be achieved in the Middle East until governments and the media learn to value all human lives equally.”The BBC and the Quiet Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians by Paul de Rooij, 12 February 2004.Why the BBC Ducks the Palestinian Story by Tim Llewellyn, 06 February 2004.Mis-reporting Venezuela : Hugo Chavez as processed by the “Independent” newspaper by Toni Solo, 22 March 2004.Dear Mr. Man by Prince, 2004.Mass Incarceration and Rape: The Savaging of Black America from The Black Commentator, 17 June 2004."You Won't Be Leaving Tomorrow": Thirty-One Years and Counting Inside the Belly of the Beast by Veronza Bowers Jr., 27 August 2004. Yet another example of American "Justice".The Sin of Double Standards by S. A. Abidi, 26 August 2004.The Most Important Terrorism is Ours by John Pilger, 20 September 2004. “The terrorism of groups and individuals, however horrific, is tiny by comparison with that of states. But the media have no language to describe state terrorism.”Your Media is Killing You by William Rivers Pitt, 21 September 2004. “The American mainstream television news media, in whole and in part, has catastrophically failed the American people and is singularly responsible for the untimely deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.”America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb by Robert Parry, 13 December 2004.Why Media Ownership Matters by Amy Goodman and David Goodman, 03 April 2005. “Six huge corporations now control the major U.S. media.”Another Escalation from the Palestinians: Israeli "Retaliation" and Double Standards by Jonathan Cook, 26 June 2006. “In the skewed moral and news priorities of the BBC, the killing of two Israeli soldiers by Palestinian militants – the "escalation" – provides a justification for "fierce retaliation" against Gaza, with the inevitable toll on Palestinian civilians and militants alike. The earlier killing of tens of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military, however, is not presented as justification for yesterday's Palestinian retaliation against the army.
In other words, on the scale of moral outrage the BBC ranks the deaths of Israeli soldiers enforcing an illegal occupation far above those of Palestinian civilians enduring the illegal occupation.” Britain's airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered from the World Socialist Web Site, 11 August 2006.America's corporate-controlled media: garbage disguised as news by David R. Hoffman, 22 August 2006.BBC: British Bullshit Corporation by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, 07 April 2007.
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 Z Magazine - alternative media with many articles and links. Cursor with links to mainstream and alternative media. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Counterpunch:
“Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints.” Apart from the biweekly newsletter the website is updated six times a week. Alternet - “AlterNet.org is an online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate.” Third World Traveler “puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the corporate media about the state of democracy in America, and about the impact of the policies of the United States' government, transnational corporations, and the corporate media, on democracy, free speech, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the United States.” The Black Commentator “Commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans.” Left I on the News. “A leftwing view of the day's news and the way it's presented in the media.”Online Journal “Building a new news media of, by and for the people.” What Really Happened. “What is mainstream news today was here a year ago.”CounterCurrents. “www.countercurrents.org is an alternative news site. We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!” Antiwar.com “is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.”George Monbiot's home page.  Medialens “is our response to the unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of many of the problems facing us, such as human rights abuses, poverty, pollution and climate change.” Asia Times Online “is a quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues. We look at these issues from an Asian perspective; this distinguishes us from the mainstream English-language media, whose reporting on Asian matters is generally by Westerners, for Westerners.” Truthdig “is a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view.”The March For Justice “is an all-inclusive human and civil rights movement that aims to improve upon human life by furthering the causes of justice. The March stands for what we all stand for or aspire to.” News from Babylon
“The site was started in January of 2002 in response to the unconstitutional and anti-American actions of the Bush administration following the September 11th tragedy.” Media Monitors Network “A non-profit, non-bias and non-political platform which mainly helps to prevail the whole truth and generally facilitate answers to any disputed, controversial topic being broadcast, web cast, published, distributed or telecast in the world media.”Freespeech.org with articles and videos. IslamiCity. A Moslem view of current events.Consortium News “ We founded the Consortiumnews.com Web site in 1995, back in the "early days" of the modern Internet. The site was meant to be a home for important, well-reported stories that weren't welcome in the O.J. Simpson-obsessed, conventional-wisdom-driven national news media of that time.”Information Clearing House. “News you won't find on CNN or Fox News.”  Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk on American vs. British media coverage of war. A 15-minute interview on Pacifica Radio, 23 May 2003.Dissident Voice: “A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice.” In These Times “is a national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago. For 27 years, In These Times has provided groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement, environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the media. In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter.” Common Dreams. “Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future.” ThomasMc.com “is a daily news and opinion magazine that questions the status quo.” Mathaba “is a news agency and an online news network. Articles are contributed by authors, correspondents and analysts as well as by "mathabas" and by agreement. Mathaba News is recognized by major web publications in the news industry.”Craig Murray “As Britain's outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region.” The NewStandard. “Published by PeoplesNetWorks, a small, nonprofit collective, The NewStandard is one of the only professional, independent, noncommercial hard news sources in the United States.”Project Censored – Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004.Project Censored – Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2004-2005.Project Censored – Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2005-2006. Global Witness “campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. We work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where the resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption.” SpinWatch “exists to provide public interest research and reporting on corporate and government public relations and propaganda.”SourceWatch “(formerly called the "Disinfopedia") is a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.” The 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Crises of 2004 from Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). Black Agenda Report. “The weekly magazine of African American political thought & action.” WatchingAmerica “reflects global opinion about the United States, […] providing news and views about the United States published in other countries. It is not our purpose to find favorable or unfavorable content, but to reflect as accurately as possible how others perceive the richest and most powerful country in the world. We have no political agenda.”Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 from The Information Office of China's State Council, 08 March 2007.
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Days of Infamy – Events you won't find in any history book.White Man's Burden: The Never-ending Saga by Habib Siddiqui, 06 June 2004.Christianity, Capitalism, Corporations, and the Myth of Dominion by Norman Council, Summer 2004.The CIA in Nicaragua from Wake Up.Florida 1837: Christmas Eve Resistance to the First US Occupation by William Loren Katz, 24 December 2004.Barbarity is the inevitable consequence of foreign rule by Seumas Milne, 27 January 2005. “Britain's empire was built on vast ethnic cleansing, enslavement, enforced racial hierarchy, land theft and merciless exploitation. As the Cambridge historian Richard Drayton puts it: "We hear a lot about the rule of law, incorruptible government and economic progress – the reality was tyranny, oppression, poverty and the unnecessary deaths of countless millions of human beings."”First, They Attack the Past by John Pilger, 18 February 2005. “How does thought control work in societies that call themselves free? Why are famous journalists so eager, almost as a reflex, to minimize the culpability of political leaders such as Bush and Blair who share responsibility for the unprovoked attack on a defenseless people, for laying to waste their land, and for killing at least 100,000 people, most of them civilians, having sought to justify this epic crime with demonstrable lies?”Five Hundred Years of Plunder: from Columbus to Corporate America by Eduardo Galleano, 1992.An ethical blank cheque by Richard Drayton, 10 May 2005. “British and US mythology about the second world war ignores our own crimes and legitimises Anglo-American warmaking.”D(isinformation) Day – 60 Years is Enough by Mickey Z, 29 May 2004. “June 6, 2004 marks 60 years since the fabled Allied invasion known as "D-Day." Lost amid the self-congratulatory orgy is the minor detail that by the time of the D-Day invasion, the Soviets were engaging 80 percent of the German Army on the Eastern Front. Oops...”The West has lost the battle of ideas against Muslims by Abid Mustafa, 04 June 2005.An essay in imperial villain-making by William Dalrymple, 24 May 2005. “A fanatical Muslim despot was resisting the west, there were calls for regime change. We have, of course, been here before.”The Case of Jerusalem – The Holy City by Habib Siddiqui, 26 October 2005.The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict from Jews for Justice in the Middle East, 08 February 2005.Communism may be dead, but clearly not dead enough by Seumas Milne, 16 February 2006. “The battle over history reflects a determination to prove that no political alternative can challenge the new global capitalism.”Islam in America: From African Slaves to Malcolm X by Thomas A. Tweed, 07 April 2006.
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Zionism in the Age of the Dictators by Lenni Brenner, 1983. “It is true that only an extreme lunatic fringe of Zionism went so far as to offer to join the war on Germany's side in 1941, in the hope of establishing "the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich". Unfortunately this was the group which the present Prime Minister of Israel chose to join.”
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Western Values. About so-called "western values".Empire-speak : a primer in practical translation by Toni Solo, 04 July 2004.A guide to interpreting words and expressions used in the Western media.The Devil's Dictionary of Free-Trade by Amber Beers, 25 November 1999.The Official War Glossary by Geov Parrish, 19 March 2003A Glossary of Dispossession by Paul de Rooij, 01 January 2006. “Words are very important. Words frame issues, palliate, mollify, exculpate or even hide sordid acts. Words like "disengagement", "viable state", "barrier or fence", etc., alter our understanding of the Palestinian condition under the unrelenting ethnic cleansing that has been the norm during the past decades. Invariably western media and its coterie of "analysts" use propaganda-tainted words when referring to Israeli actions and the Palestinian condition. The list below analyses a few of the prevalent words that hide or exculpate the dispossession of millions”The BBC and the Quiet Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians by Paul de Rooij, 12 February 2004. The (mis)use of language by the BBC.Doublespeak and the New World Order by Richard Moore, 23 January 1996.
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Glossary of Occupation by Paul de Rooij, 12 September 2002.
“Language is a powerful yet deceptive thing. It can be used to convey someone's plight and it can also be used to hide unpalatable sordid deeds. Nowhere are words adulterated more for political ends than in Israel and Palestine today.” A Glossary of Warmongering by Paul de Rooij, 13 March 2003. Arrogant Propaganda: US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the Iraq War by Paul de Rooij, 31 March 2003. Glossary of the Iraqi Occupation by Paul de Rooij, 23 April 2004. Doublespeak from Disinfopedia.
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