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Alternative Media resources on War on Iraq

transmitter | 25.03.2003 17:47

Some alternative media resources on the web, courtesy of Red Pepper and the electrohippies collective.

A wide range of alternative media resources is available on the internet. Here are some recommendations for the UK from Red Pepper and the electrohippies’ media resource, which also provides details on mainstream media.

Indymedia is the first port of call for independent reporting direct from the streets. This website is currently choc-a-bloc with the very latest anti war protests, events and news from the UK and beyond. There's a specific Anti-War section as well as the usual rolling news headlines. Also a Protests page, demo's page and protestors' weapons inspectors round-up.

Schnews, the alternative weekly news sheet put together in Brighton, has been running front pages on the war for a while now. Common sense commentaries from the Chomsky's of this world, as well as well placed NGO rep's who give the anti-globalisation take to the current debacle. Plus - first hand reports from direct actions which never make it into the pages of the qualities. The website has a direct action against the war page, local anti war groups section, events, email groups.

Undercurrents, based in Cherwell, Oxford, is the video journalist collective, which came to prominence during the M11 road protests. They train up activists and lend out video equipment for them to record demo's and green/political events or projects. They also produce underground videos of the bigger protests, like Seattle or Genoa. The website has a section on anti-war latest, including footage of direct actions; a piece on media workers against the war; and an interview with Roddy Mansfield, an Undercurrents producer who gives the inside story on getting the world exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein. Also an interview with the woman who disarmed a US war plane with a hammer at Shannon airport, Ireland.

New Internationalist, the co-operative based magazine in Oxford, with editorial staff in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and US. Reporting mainly on issues of world poverty and inequality, it has a special feature on No War, with reports on protests from around the world. Also there's a campaigns page including B2 or not B2 about the use of Stealth bombers at RAF Fairford, plus a handy section on all the wars the US has undertaken down the years.

Z.mag is a huge website of independent critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the US. Updated many times daily, it gets over 250,000 hits a week. Look out for Iraq Watch, antiwar materials, debates, recent links, and more. Z magazine is available in print as well as online.

AlterNet.org is another US project, this time from the Independent Media Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. Check out articles in the War on Iraq section: The Wars After Iraq, EnviroHealth: The U.S. Military's War on the Earth.

Urban75, based in Brixton, is one of the busiest, non-profit community websites - easily one of the busiest sites of its kind, recording well over a million hits a week. Check out the Punch George Bush section and the Protest Picture file. There are forums specifically on the anti-war movement.

CounterPunch is the US bi-weekly muckraking newsletter-with- radical-attitude. Check out the Glossary of Warmongering with such pearls as: 'democracy: a useful dictatorship of the remaining banana republic'.

See also:
Voices in the Wilderness | Democracy Now | Jay’s Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources Directory | Green anarchist magazine

Here’s a choice of adresses from the electrohippie collective's media resource:

Electronic Iraq | Peace News | Michael Moore’s site with an anti- war letter to G.W.Bush | Protest site War on Iraq | US based Anti-War organising site War-Times |

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thanks for the list

25.03.2003 18:48

here's one of my favourites;

*hidden* by editorial admin team due to antisemitic content. Sorry.

ukc


Think before you join in a DDoS attack

25.03.2003 19:43

The electrohippies site proposes that people join in a DDoS, if you don't know what a Distributed Denial of Service attack is then try reading some results of this Google:

 http://www.google.com/search?q=DDoS_

I think a DDoS is like spam, always bad.

There have been heated debates about this, if you want to read more then this post on Kuro5hin.org and the following debate is worth spending some time reading:

Netstrikes & Antiglobalization Protesters
Feb 3rd, 2002
 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/2/1/18841/51351

Has there been a debate on any IMC lists about this? It's a shame the list server is down.

Chris


The same old crap

25.03.2003 21:32

...when it comes to *news* on the current war (in south and central Iraq -- er, a bit to the east..)

No offence to any well meaning websites pointed out here ..

but it must be pointed out that no news is better than another alternative mumbo jumbo.
Just following these links you get dragged into the usual 'protest for everything wrong out there' camp.
The usual suspects cross linked to each other and nothing worthy of *news* to break the current UK censorship.

There are innocents being killed off by blood thristy pigs out in Iraq and the usual Aussie, NZ, US, UK alternative media could do better by forging ties with foreign sources with respect.

This bullshit of western superiority has to stop.

A good example is

(if unsuccessful try again)

Even very partisan newssites like

has news to be read between the lines.

Also lots out there to read if one can read Arabic.

In light of the current censorship why the hell does not anyone run an article on the 'news vaccum'?
This is the type of thing the well meaning humans in the west could and should do regarding this war.

ram


Fuck whatreallyhappened.com

26.03.2003 08:16

Whatreallyhappened is a front for anti-semitic, holocaust revisionist blowhard David Irving. It's an offense to everything Indymedia stands for.

jew lover


Another good link

26.03.2003 10:51

I've been checking out  http://palestinechronicle.com/index.php
.....they've got a good links page too.....  http://palestinechronicle.com/links.php
......Also  http://enews.ajeeb.com/ may be worth checking out. Not so sure about the latter but the former certainly has some interesting material. Do I need to form the links like this? - Palestine Chronicle and AJeeb

Yes it would be nice to be able to read Arabic in these times!

We as individuals and all media sources naturally have their biases.....but its good to get as wide a take as possible. Anyone know anything more about these people?

Stewart


www.yearzero.org

26.03.2003 10:51

Yearzero is the best British site on the war for good quality journalism and passion, they have run a whole series of articles from inside Baghdad which are very mioving, they had a piece by Noam Chomsky on the crisis, they have news items every day and a big archive of writing on the subject. Also have alook at their `dossiers` which are brilliant for research purposes.

The address is above:  http://www.yearzero.org

kelly

Kelly B
- Homepage: http://www.yearzero.org


IMC admin idiot(s)?

26.03.2003 14:32

On visiting the comments in the hope of finding more useful content I see with digust the IMC admin action in censoring a website [whatreallyhappened.com] as posted under the topic ...one of my favourites' or similar by another enthusiastic participant here.

I can see that there is a lame comment against the neutrality of this website by another participant.


Now to censor this website as 'anti semitic' is disturbing as this is supposed to be an independent media resource.
Is it not?!

I CAN JUDGE FOR MYSELF (and hope others too) whether to trust the content and accusations in a website, such as [whatreallyhappened.com].

The website has references to the word Jew as much as Arab, Iraqi, American or whatever.
There are plenty of references to Israel as to be expected in these troubled times where the issue of Israel plays such a central role.

I find [whatreallyhappenned.com] to be well linked to the usual sources of common sense, conspiracy theories, hippocracy etc. and I find no apparent anti semitic theme.

Can you explain the basis of your decision?

ram


Link to whatreallyhappened.com

26.03.2003 15:15

There is a lot of crap getting posted and people trying to keep the newswire and comments clean are under a lot of pressure -- mistakes get made. Perhaps you are right and it was a mistake to remove the link to this site:

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

I can understand why it was done -- whatreallyhappened.com does appear to be a crazy conspiracy theoy site, at least that was my first impression, for example things like this:

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ICTS.html

This issue should probably be discussed on the UK IMC Features list, however the list server is down at the moment, again :-(

 imc-uk-features@lists.indymedia.org

Chris


union anti-war info

26.03.2003 17:33

another source of info, analysis and commentary on the war is www.labournet.net

the focus is on workers and unions but some of it should be of wider interest

Greg

Greg Dropkin
- Homepage: http://www.labournet.net


Response to ram

26.03.2003 18:18

I removed the link. Here is why:

From the indymedia uk mission statement:
"Indymedia UK provides an interactive platform for reports from the struggles for a world based on freedom, cooperation, justice and solidarity, and against environmental degradation, neoliberal exploitation, racism and patriarchy."
"While the mainstream media conceal their manifold biases and alignments, we clearly state our position. Indymedia UK does not attempt to take an objective and impartial standpoint: Indymedia UK clearly states its subjectivity."

From the indymedia uk editorial guidelines:
"Occasionally we are forced to hide postings offending the open posting guidelines. Because of the 'real time' nature of the newswire, it is not possible to monitor its contents 24 hours a day."

Newswire postings which include links to pages that are against the NOPG:
After thorough discussion on the imc uk features list, it was decided that postings which include links to pages that are against the Newswire Open Posting Guidelines will be hidden.

Hiding link on posting "thanks for that":
I removed the link to "what really happened" because of
 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ICTS.html,
 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html,
 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ICTS.html.

There are many more similar links on the site, together they make up a conspiracy theory. Since there are also links to respected newspapers and articles that to my knowledge are not discriminatory, I only removed the link, but didn't hide later articles discussing it. In that way, the imc uk editorial guidelines could be respected, and the issue can still be discussed on the site.

By the way - personal comment: the indymedia uk editorial admin team is probably as diverse as the entire imc uk readership. Definitions of racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism etc vary - and so they should. Imc is no political party with set-in-stone ideology. Thats why the discussion on "what really happened" is NOT hidden, and even the links can be obtained from there. I trust that the readers of "what really happened" will continue to find their way to that page.
However, the indymedia uk admin team does agree on some things: BNP press releases, for example, are always hidden. Those who want to read them can go to the BNP website. This is not censorship, since no imc in the world has the power to close another group's website.

transmitter


re: transmitter's explanation

27.03.2003 00:13

Please note that the link .../ICTS.html has not a single word
'jew'. It is all about 9/11 and possible Israeli invovlement with the unfortunate incidents of that day.

Come on! when the all the pig media are spreading so much misinformation this is not even conspiracy theory.
Remember the donkey Kissinger resigned in December from the 9/11 pig inquiry and we hear no more about it. Until such an inquiry is held (if the liars are to be ever believed) this type of stories are the only way to gather information for any researcher.

The other link you provide is dead.

Also one of the many things I learnt thanks to the original pointer to [whatreallyhappened.com] is the Reuters! article on how IANA (inlt. atomic... ) recently expressed shock at the 'cheap FAKE and ONLY document produced by the pigs as evidence of Iraqi purchase of Uranium'. The pigs even faked the president of Niger's signature!!

Please republish the link the [whatreallyhappenned.com] with an apology.
Please think a bit more about it...
What have they done wrong to be classed with BNP?

I just saw this throught the disputed website.

Remember the bullshit used few days ago when the media was used the most important weapon for OIL?

May the peace prevail upon the people of Iraq.

ram


re: transmitter's explanation

27.03.2003 00:31

Please note that the link .../ICTS.html has not a single word
'jew'. It is all about 9/11 and possible Israeli invovlement with the unfortunate incidents of that day.

Come on! when the all the pig media are spreading so much misinformation this is not even conspiracy theory.
Remember the donkey Kissinger resigned in December from the 9/11 pig inquiry and we hear no more about it. Until such an inquiry is held (if the liars are to be ever believed) this type of stories are the only way to gather information for any researcher.

The other link you provide is dead.

Also one of the many things I learnt thanks to the original pointer to [whatreallyhappened.com] is the Reuters! article on how IANA (inlt. atomic... ) recently expressed shock at the 'cheap FAKE and ONLY document produced by the pigs as evidence of Iraqi purchase of Uranium'. The pigs even faked the president of Niger's signature!!

Please republish the link the [whatreallyhappenned.com] with an apology.
Please think a bit more about it...
What have they done wrong to be classed with BNP?

I just saw this throught the disputed website.

Remember the bullshit used few days ago when the media was used the most important weapon for OIL?

May the peace prevail upon the people of Iraq.

ram


Eclipse the anti-war review

27.03.2003 15:05

Check out www.eclipsereview.org

the website of Eclipse - the anti-war review whith loads of great resource links and news and analysis of the current crisis.

Milly


Common Dreams

28.03.2003 16:34

Ennui


Update

30.03.2003 16:59

Thanks for the link to CommonDreams.

Here is another general related resource picked from elsewhere in the IMC-UK newswire


But a big protest at the very British pro Israeli stance in not republishing the [whatreallyhappened.com] link as censored above.

ram


Porn Stars in the Gulf

05.04.2003 11:09

ammocity.com seems to be coming back to life since it 'hibernated' about a year ago. currently it seems to be mainly a publishing forum but they promise that their online magazine and radio station is returning shortly.

there are some interesting comments in their 'war or peace?' section including the recent news that porn label vivid is distributing signed pictures from some of their adult actresses. to the us forces. pretty disgusting given that they invading a muslim nation.

snyper