Month: June 2003

Bolton Enters The Twilight Zone By coincidence, Greg Palast’s praise for the non-toxic Newsnight came just as we were preparing a review of a recent interview conducted by Kirsty Wark and her “sexy brain”. On →

Greg Palast, Robert Fisk, George Monbiot, Media Lens, The New Statesman And Newsnight Bad Guys Don’t Wear Black Hats The media isn’t all bad. If it were, it would be relatively harmless – people would →

Honourable Deception When it came to power in 1997, Britain’s Labour government claimed that it would be a “force for good in the world” (quoted, Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit, Vintage, 2003, p.1). What proportion →

Moral Tourism And The Killing It is an elementary truism that suffering caused by our own government should be of far greater concern to us than suffering caused by other governments. While we can do →

On June 6, we issued a media alert titled ‘Mass Deception’ containing a quote from a June 4 Guardian news story in which US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz appeared to admit that oil was →

Among The Knowledgeable The media have erupted with outrage at the allegation that Tony Blair “duped” the public and parliament into fighting a war that had been secretly agreed with George Bush last September. Equally →

Introduction Mark Curtis first came to our attention with his extraordinary book, The Ambiguities of Power – British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (Zed Books, 1995). Using formerly secret government documents, Curtis demolished many of the →