Month: May 2011

Between 17-19 May, we had a lengthy exchange of emails with BBC Middle East Bureau Chief, Paul Danahar. It began innocuously enough, but Danahar gradually revealed that he had little intention of sincerely addressing the issues put to him, and the →

  One of the main headlines on the BBC news homepage earlier this month read, ‘Violence erupts at Israel borders’. Israeli soldiers had shot dead at least 12 protesters and injured dozens more. BBC ‘impartiality’ →

Writing in the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, commented: ‘Although Americans are in full agreement that the demise of Osama bin Laden is a good thing, many →

    Operation Phantom Fury In November 2004, the UN’s Integrated Regional Information Network reported the impact of Operation Phantom Fury, a combined US-UK offensive, on Iraq’s third city, Fallujah: ‘Approximately 70 per cent of →