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Month: October 2002

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Iraq and Arms Inspectors – The Big Lie, Part 2

29th October 2002

What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult for the media to avoid some of the more obvious facts about the →

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Iraq and Arms Inspectors – The Big Lie, Part 1

28th October 2002

Introduction To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms inspector Scott Ritter’s book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt, Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the →

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‘Moderate’ Extremism – The Independent Provides Cover for the West’s Threat of an Iraq Invasion

25th October 2002

Western state power prides itself on its ‘moderation’, along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and “the inalienable rights of man”, as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper →

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Unique Threats – Profitable Responses

19th October 2002

Unique Threat – No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: “The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, →

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The Guardian and The Observer – Idolators Inc. A Tale of Two Political Gatherings

9th October 2002

Pacifying people by passing over Western crimes and focusing laser-like on the crimes of demonised enemies is one thing. Infinitely more effective, however, is to simply persuade the public that worrying about political issues is →

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THE BBC’S ROBOTIC ASSERTION OF ‘IMPARTIALITY’

3rd October 2002

According to the late political correspondent Anthony Bevins, who worked for the Sun, Daily Mail and Independent: ‘It is daft to suggest that individuals can buck the system, ignore the pre-set “taste” of their newspapers, →

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