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Month: February 2008

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Non-Violence And The Self-Cherishing Mind

18th February 2008

By: David Edwards and Matthew Bain On 2nd December 2007 Media Lens were presented with the Gandhi International Peace Award by Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq and himself a recipient of the →

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SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY

12th February 2008

The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media →

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‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – Part 2

7th February 2008

Note: Part 1 of this alert can be found here. Exchange With The Independent’s Hamish McRae In Part One of this alert, we noted an observation made by Hamish McRae, economics columnist at the Independent: →

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‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

5th February 2008

Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and →

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