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KIDNAPPED BY ISRAEL

The British Media And The Invasion Of Gaza By Jonathan Cook Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in

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A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 3

Squeaky Spleen – Beaumont Strikes Back In Parts 1 and 2 we analysed what Observer editor, Roger Alton, described as “a superb demolition of Chomsky” by the newspaper’s foreign editor Peter Beaumont. In the event,

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A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 2

The Observer’s Foreign Affairs Editor Peter Beaumont Reviews Noam Chomsky’s Failed States Beaumont continues of Chomsky: “In attempting to create a consistent argument for America as murderous bully, going back to the Seminole Wars, he

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A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 1

The Observer’s Foreign Affairs Editor Peter Beaumont Reviews Noam Chomsky’s Failed States A Gauntlet Is Thrown On June 16, the Observer’s editor Roger Alton made a bold announcement on his newspaper‘s website: “And to all

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Review In The Hindu

Putting the media under the scanner Arvind Sivaramakrishnan A book on the mainstream media shows how there is a widespread sense among professional journalists that the world is as the powerful and the wealthy say

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Review In The Herald

Review by Martin Tierney The Herald Guardians of Power David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press £14.99 This study by Media Lens, an organisation founded by Edwards and Cromwell ‘dedicated to challenging the distorted vision