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Month: May 2002

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Burying Big Business – The Guardian, National Missile Defence and Climate Change

22nd May 2002

One of the secrets of media manipulation is to report the horror and strife of the world as though Western power, interests and machinations did not exist. Vast poverty, injustice and chaos in the Third →

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The Media’s Stranglehold on the Climate ‘Debate’

13th May 2002

‘If the year past is anything to go by, there will be many more than two million deaths from climate change-related disasters worldwide in the next ten years, and the damages to property will be →

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How to Fool the Whole World – Machiavelli, the British Press and Jenin

9th May 2002

Mad as he was, Machiavelli certainly understood the basic requirements of an effective propaganda system: “It is not essential, then, that a Prince should have all the good qualities which I have enumerated above, but →

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A Tale of Two ‘Massacres’ – Jenin and Racak

1st May 2002

“I think newsmen are inclined to side with humanity rather than with authority and institutions.” (Quoted Schechter, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Seven Stories Press, 1997, p.36) Or so U.S. TV anchorman, →

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