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Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

4th December 2020

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of →

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The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media

17th November 2020

The Roman poet Horace famously declared: ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’ It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described →

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Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist

10th November 2020

Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter: →

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Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones

23rd October 2020

In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), →

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‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial

7th October 2020

One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods →

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The ‘War Against Us’ – The Battle of Britain And Steve Richards On ‘The Prime Ministers’

23rd September 2020

We can report that the skies over South East England have been swarming with Spitfires and Hurricanes this month. Is there a war on? Well, yes. In 1991, the historian Howard Zinn described the two →

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‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange

9th September 2020

The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, →

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‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan

6th August 2020

On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced →

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Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

30th July 2020

What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? The Observer commented: ‘There →

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Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police

3rd July 2020

Frightening numbers of people still believe that profit-maximising corporate media merely disseminate something called ‘news’. In reality, ‘mainstream’ ‘news’ is chock full of Pavlovian bells, trigger terms designed to shape and control public opinion. When →

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