Month: March 2003

Niche Killing It’s hard to believe that a little more than one week ago, the Iraqi regime, facing imminent attack, was meekly dismantling its al-Samoud missiles, presenting scientists for interview, and allowing hundreds of air →

Quote 1 “Iraq: The Human Cost Of War50,000 civilian deaths?500,000 civilians injured?2,000,000 refugees and displaced people?10,000,000 in need of humanitarian assistance?”(Front cover of the March/April 2003 issue of “Amnesty”, Amnesty International UK’s magazine, quoting warnings →

MEDIA LENS MEDIA ALERT   21st March 2003 Media Lens Alert:  “Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come →

“The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, →

The word that keeps tumbling out of the mouths of journalists – often, we suspect, to their horror – is the adjective ‘unprecedented’. The 2 million strong peace march in London was ‘unprecedented’. The round →

“We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves… an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all →