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Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC

15th November 2024

Imagine an experienced British surgeon, recently returned from Ukraine, breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately targeting Ukrainian children. Imagine the surgeon had →

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Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future

11th November 2024

In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to avert. Sometimes, notably in the →

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Expanding Beyond Earth – The Illusions Of ‘Progress’

17th October 2024

In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefited from ‘men to whom even the most enlightened European must →

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‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

9th October 2024

Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the →

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‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims

24th September 2024

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were killed →

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Urgent Request For Support – Media Lens In Financial Crisis

10th September 2024

Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system (‘MSM’). We argue that the ‘MSM’, in fact, acts as a →

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‘Aligned With Israel’s Propaganda Strategy’: BBC Correspondent Challenges the BBC Director General

22nd July 2024

Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruhayem, a Beirut-based BBC correspondent. Basing his arguments →

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‘Straight As A Die’ – Giving Starmer A Free Pass

9th July 2024

The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear: ‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’ This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a →

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Did The West Provoke The Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled

26th June 2024

Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system – every newspaper, website, TV channel – to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following. →

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‘This Is A Sharp Time’ – Israel’s ‘Day Of Joy’

20th June 2024

In his very last article, ‘We are Spartacus’, published just a month before his death in December, John Pilger included a quote that exactly captured the truth of our time: ‘“This is a sharp time, →

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