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‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction

Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth: ‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’ Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny. The omission of inconvenient →

Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

4th December 2020

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of →

The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media

17th November 2020

The Roman poet Horace famously declared: ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’ It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described →

Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist

10th November 2020

Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter: →

Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones

23rd October 2020

In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), →

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How many UK journalists will remind audiences of Boris Johnson's infamous 'Superman' speech in Feb 2020?

@Peston?
@bbclaurak?

This was when Johnson was ignoring WHO advice and wider medical calls to ‘test, test, test’ and to move into lockdown.

https://www.medialens.org/2020/an-illusion-of-protection-the-pandemic-the-criminal-government-and-public-distrust-of-the-media/

Peter Oborne @OborneTweets·

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Boris Johnson: “We did everything that we could to minimise suffering and minimise loss of life”

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Here's an example highlighted by Lancet editor Richard Horton in *March 2020*, showing how the BBC's political editor was promoting the Tory government script on the pandemic from the start.

‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction

Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media

Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist

Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones

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