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Month: November 2004

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PROTEST THE BBC ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 – THIS IS WHY! PART 1

30th November 2004

“There is not a single surgeon in Falluja. We had one ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor wounded. There are scores of injured civilians in their homes whom we can’t move. A 13-year-old →

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FALLUJAH – THE BBC’S DIRECTOR OF NEWS RESPONDS

26th November 2004

On November 8 and 11 we published two Media Alerts: ‘Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah,’ in which we commented on the bias and inhumanity of BBC and ITV News reporting on Fallujah. These alerts generated →

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Transforming Suffering Into Freedom

21st November 2004

By David Cromwell “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” (Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and →

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THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES AND THE REAL POLITICS OF FEAR – PART 2

19th November 2004

Manufacturing The Myth Of ‘America’ American elites have long sought to manufacture and promote a shared myth of ‘America’ based on “symbols by which Americans defined their dream and pictured social reality.” (Alex Carey, Taking →

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THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES AND THE REAL POLITICS OF FEAR – PART 1

18th November 2004

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the public alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” (H.L. Mencken, →

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RAPID RESPONSE ALERT: LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH – PART 2

11th November 2004

“We’ll unleash the dogs of hell, we’ll unleash ’em… They don’t even know what’s coming – hell is coming. If there are civilians in there, they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.” (Sergeant →

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RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: SIDING WITH IRAQ – PART 2

10th November 2004

Johann Hari Responds On October 29, we sent out Part 1 of this Media Alert. We noted how Independent columnist Johann Hari had declared that his support for war in Iraq was qualified by an →

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RAPID RESPONSE ALERT: THE BBC – LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH

8th November 2004

Introduction – Pacifying The Population In 1984, Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead described how “demonstration elections” are “organised and staged by a foreign power primarily to pacify a restive home population, reassuring it that ongoing →

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Cogitations

To The Power Of A Gentle Heart – Spirited Away

6th November 2004

By David Edwards “In thee mercy, in thee pity, in thee magnificence, in thee whatever of goodness is in any creature, are united.” (Dante) Treating Earth Like It Was Dirt Having taken a wrong turning, →

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100,000 IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS – PART 2

4th November 2004

By way of a splendid coincidence, Media Lens received this delayed response from the BBC on November 3: “I am writing in response to your email to Caroline Hawley dated 13/10. Apologies for the delay →

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