Month: March 2009

Al-Qaeda – Who Else? On March 23, BBC online reported another bloody day in Iraq: “It was the second bomb attack in Iraq on Monday, with an earlier explosion near the capital. Baghdad, killing at →

Gullible’s (Endless) Travels Have journalists learnt nothing from recent history? It truly is a wonder when a reporter can assert in public, on the BBC News no less, that “Tony Blair passionately believed that Iraq →

We are delighted to announce that a new Media Lens book, ‘NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century,’ will be published by Pluto Press in the autumn. John Pilger says of our book: “Not since Orwell and →

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama described the war in Iraq as one that “should never have been authorised and never been waged”. (www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/pers-m02.shtml) On February 27, as president, Obama saw it differently. He told →