Month: June 2011

  In the Independent on June 24, Patrick Cockburn reported a vital development countering official propaganda on Libya: ‘Human rights organisations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces →

    ‘Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves — 43.6 billion barrels — outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects.’ So reported the Washington Post on June →

    Or: Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents   Working on Media Lens has given us ten years of first-hand experience of just how tightly discussion can be controlled in an ostensibly democratic society. No →