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Month: March 2012

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Postcard From The Precipice – An Appeal For Support

29th March 2012

  Erich Fromm understood that ‘selective inattention’ was at the heart of the problem. He devoted his life to exposing man’s capacity for ‘not observing what he does not want to observe; hence, that he →

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Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’

21st March 2012

  Journalists are supposed to tell the truth without fear or favour. In reality, as even the editor of the Independent acknowledges, MPs and reporters are ‘a giant club’. Together, politics and media combine to →

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Bombing Osirak, Burying UN Resolution 487 – An Exchange With The BBC’s Jonathan Marcus

6th March 2012

  On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli aircraft bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor ten miles southeast of Baghdad. Ten Iraqis and one French civilian were killed. In his book State of Denial, journalist Bob →

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Iran – Next In Line For Western ‘Intervention’?

1st March 2012

What would it take for journalists to seriously challenge government propaganda? A war with over one million dead, four million refugees, a country’s infrastructure shattered, and the increased threat of retail ‘terror’ in response to →

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