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Month: February 2013

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‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost

26th February 2013

By David Edwards   There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are →

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Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion

12th February 2013

By David Cromwell A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, ‘Chasing Ice’, depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever →

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Jousting With Toothpicks – The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism

7th February 2013

By David Edwards   A critic responding to a recent alert, objected to our use of the term ‘corporate journalist’: ‘The problem is it has no clear meaning. Chomsky regularly writes for “corporate media”, as →

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