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KOSOVO AND IRAQ – SAME BOMBS, DIFFERENT LIES
The truth about the invasion of Iraq was perhaps best summed up by Ray McGovern, one of the CIA’s most senior analysts: “It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, →
Month: March 2004
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BOMBING THE PEACE PROTESTORS
People Pay The Price For Realpolitik Before last year’s war on Iraq, Media Lens reported the extraordinary level of establishment opposition to the attack. Writing in the Financial Times in January 2003, Douglas Hurd, former →
Cogitations
Breaking The Chains Of Illusion – Part 2
By David Edwards The Catastrophe Of Corporate Work My early sense that people had a tendency to trade their authenticity for a socially approved, false version of happiness was reinforced mightily when I entered the →
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HAITI – NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
“You cannot hope to bribe or twist,thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will dounbribed, there’s no occasion to.” (Humbert Wolfe, 1930) Haiti – Ignorance Is Strength The beauty of news for →
Cogitations
Breaking The Chains Of Illusion – Part 1
By David Edwards Personal – Political Many of the dissident philosophers and rebels of the past like Rousseau, Rocker, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Emerson and Fromm wrote often about the personal experiences, motivations and concerns that informed →
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BRINGING HELL TO HAITI – PART 2
Killing Hope Jean-Bertrand Aristide told the Associated Press yesterday that he was forced to leave Haiti by US military forces. Asked if he left on his own, Aristide answered: “No. I was forced to leave. →
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BRINGING HELL TO HAITI – PART 1
Introduction – Anyone Here Feeling Stupid? Have you noticed how stupid you feel when you watch the news? Hands up anybody who understands what’s going on in Haiti? The media is good at repeatedly broadcasting →