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Month: September 2018

Cogitations

To Do Or To Be? – The Sixth Filter

27th September 2018
Part 1 – Turning Outside Some 250,000 miles later, having spent 20 minutes waiting for the other guy to get down the ladder, Buzz Aldrin became the second person to walk on the moon, July →
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Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: ‘Hold the front page. The reporters are missing’

20th September 2018
Note From The Editors This is a slightly amended version of the foreword to the new Media Lens book, ‘Propaganda Blitz – How The Corporate Media Distort Reality’, published today by Pluto Press. Warm thanks →
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Propaganda Blitz – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support

19th September 2018
When we started Media Lens in 2001, our guiding aspiration was that independent, web-based activism would have a profoundly positive impact on public discourse. Hard to believe now, but we nurtured hopes that the greater →
Alerts

Charges ‘Without Merit’ – Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky

12th September 2018
Last week, Peter Brookes tweeted his latest cartoon for The Times, commenting: ‘#Novichok not the only poison being spread around Britain. #LabourAntisemitism #Corbyn.’ Referencing allegations that two Russian agents had been responsible for the poisoning →
Alerts

Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain

6th September 2018
The US political commentator Michael Parenti once observed that: ‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for “objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’ Once you understand the truth →

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