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Month: August 2013

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Massacres That Matter – Part 2 – The Media Response On Egypt, Libya And Syria

29th August 2013

By David Edwards   Corporate media coverage of atrocities in Egypt, Libya and Syria has closely matched US-UK government interpretations and priorities. While the US government has refused to describe what was very obviously a →

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Massacres That Matter – Part 1 – ‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria

27th August 2013

By David Edwards   The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P), formulated at the 2005 UN World Summit, is based on the idea that state sovereignty is not a right but a responsibility. Where offending states fail →

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All Journalism Is ‘Advocacy Journalism’

15th August 2013

By David Edwards   Writing for the Washington Post in June, Paul Farhi wondered if, in breaking the story of the US National Security Agency’s spying programme, the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald had ‘become something other →

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