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This Week in Palestine – Week 50, 2009

11-12-2009 19:53 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Palestine | World

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Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 5th, to 11th 2009

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Three members of Newcastle Animal Right's summoned to court.

11-12-2009 00:17 | Animal Liberation | Other Press | World

Three Members summoned before Newcastle Magistrates on 14th December 2009

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Palestine Today 121009

10-12-2009 21:01 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Palestine | World

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, December 10th, 2009.

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Normalising the Crime of the Century

10-12-2009 17:11 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Other Press | World

Iraq's current and planned potential ballistic missiles
The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos. All “inquiries” into state crimes are neutered in this way.

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100 Iranian Intellectuals called for Protest Movement’s Victim Families Invitati

10-12-2009 14:14 | Globalisation | Other Press | Repression | World

Neda statue
A group of Iranians that includes writers, artists, journalists, humanitarians, and political and social activists living in exile request that the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace Prize invite to the ceremony the mothers, or another immediate family member of those killed in recent protests in Iran.
The Open Letter signed in last November as a symbolic act to support Iranian protesters.

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Palestine Today 120809

08-12-2009 18:09 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Palestine | World

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 8th, 2009.

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Cop15: Notes from below

03-12-2009 12:49 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Other Press | World

This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what lessons, if any, can it learn from its recent past?

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Nazi Combat18 claimed responsibility for Russian train bombing

28-11-2009 20:40 | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

There are things You never gonna hear on BBC News;)

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The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?

27-11-2009 22:17 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Other Press | World

I read with amazement the ‘revelations’ concerning war criminal Tony Blair’s visit to Camp Crawford in March 2002 where Bush/Blair decided that ‘regime change’ was the order of the day. But there’s nothing new about these ‘revelations’, indeed I and many others reported this meeting literally years ago.

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Dancing on a Mass Grave - Oliver Kamm of The Times Smears Media Lens

25-11-2009 22:19 | Analysis | Other Press | Sheffield | World

One of our most relentless critics is Oliver Kamm, leader writer and blogger at The Times. Kamm joined the paper in 2008 having been an investment banker and co-founder of a hedge fund. In a 2006 blog, Kamm described us as “a shrill group of malcontents”, an “aggressively simple-minded lobby” guilty of "unprofessional and often comically inept exegesis" whose approach “demeans public life”. An impressive claim to make about one writer living off donations, one writer working in his spare time after finishing full-time work, and a virtually unpaid webmaster. David Cromwell, Kamm added, is “an ignoramus”.
( http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/media_lens_vs_h.html)

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Invitation to protest against junta’s planned sham 2010 election

25-11-2009 19:06 | Globalisation | Other Press | Sheffield | World

“If this country is to achieve genuine democracy, the result of the elections of 1990 must be recognized. This is something we cannot abandon. It will be to the detriment of our country if after an election has been held the results are not honoured and we do not resist attempts to trivialise it.” Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Citizens in Defence of Rights and Freedoms – Project Justice Gonçalo Amaral

24-11-2009 06:48 | Other Press | Repression | Social Struggles | World

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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19

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War and Remembrance: About Patria, Pageants and Poppies

21-11-2009 22:46 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Other Press | World

Gordon Brown delivers the annual foreign policy speech at Lord Mayor's banquet
Capitalism needs an enemy, real or invented and the demise of communism deprived them of a handy hook onto which they could hang the planet.

All the ‘war on terror’ has done is terrorize everybody and drag us deeper and deeper into the quagmire of the ‘new world order’.

From the former Yugoslavia to Somalia the Anglo-Saxon Empire is busy turning the planet into a graveyard.

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A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak

20-11-2009 12:33 | Other Press | Palestine | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Jonathan Cook has been covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Nazareth, Israel, as a freelance reporter for the past eight years. Before that he was a staff journalist at the Guardian and Observer newspapers. His latest books on the conflict are ‘Israel and the Clash of Civilisations’ (Pluto, 2008) and ‘Disappearing Palestine’ (Zed, 2008). His website is www.jkcook.net

In the two-part Guest Media Alert that follows, Cook attempts the truly Herculean task of dissecting and comparing the key arguments in Nick Davies’s book ‘Flat Earth News’ and our own recently published ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century.’ The results are enthralling but demanding - even hardened media analysts will require a plentiful supply of tea and biscuits throughout.

Please do not underestimate the unique nature of the analysis Cook is offering. While Davies’s book was discussed, reviewed, and applauded, far and wide in both print and broadcast media, our own book (published in September) has so far limped to just two, largely dismissive, reviews in mainstream outlets, in the Guardian and Times Higher Education (THE), totalling exactly 1,000 words. Our previous book, Guardians of Power (2006), has never been mentioned, let alone reviewed, in any mainstream national UK newspaper.

The truth is that dissident media analyses are consistently ignored in this way - it is not just us. And so Cook’s comparison of Davies’s mainstream view of the media with an analysis based on Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s “propaganda model of media control” is a vanishingly rare event. As ever, Cook’s experience as a professional journalist adds a fascinating additional dimension to his analysis.

Cook produced this mega-review - nearly 10,000 words of it - completely free of charge. It is an extraordinary act of generosity from a fine and thoughtful journalist. We would like to express our sincere thanks to him. If you would like to thank him or otherwise comment, you can write to him here:  mail@jkcook.net

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Fort Hood: A media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods

11-11-2009 20:49 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

One false and contradictory claim after the next was disseminated last night by the establishment media with regard to the core facts of the Fort Hood shootings.

Perhaps most irresponsible of all is the unverified claim that Hasan had written on the Internet in defense of suicide attacks by Muslims, even though the origins of those writings are entirely unverified. Similarly, certain news organizations -- like NPR -- used anonymous sources to disseminate inflammatory claims about Hasan's prior troubles allegedly grounded in activism on behalf of Islam.

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'Movement' #1 - No Borders Newsletter

06-11-2009 20:45 | Anti-racism | Migration | Other Press | World

Welcome to the first issue of 'Movement', a monthly newsletter covering the latest updates from the No Borders Network and beyond. We are re-launching the No Borders Newsletter in an attempt to create a more regular and broad based publication.

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The BBC’S Jeremy Paxman on Iraq - “We were hoodwinked”

06-11-2009 20:15 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | Sheffield | World

In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman - leading interviewer on BBC 2’s flagship Newsnight programme - claimed that he had been “hoodwinked” by US government propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Paxman commented:

"As far as I personally was concerned, there came a point with the presentation of the so-called evidence, with the moment when Colin Powell sat down at the UN General Assembly and unveiled what he said was cast-iron evidence of things like mobile, biological weapon facilities and the like...

"When I saw all of that, I thought, well, 'We know that Colin Powell is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man. If he believes all this to be the case, then, you know, he's seen the evidence; I haven't.’

"Now that evidence turned out to be absolutely meaningless, but we only discover that after the event. So, you know, I’m perfectly open to the accusation that we were hoodwinked. Yes, clearly we were."
(Paxman, ‘Is World Journalism in Crisis?‘, Coventry University online interview, October 28, 2009. The entire interview is available here:  http://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/2009/10/29/is-there-a-crisis-in-world-journalism-jeremy-paxman/ )

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"Afghan betrayal"

05-11-2009 20:36 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

Independent, 5 November 2009


If your country has been under a brutal occupation for eight years, would you consider working in the service of the occupation forces?

Wouldn’t that be the ultimate betrayal against your fellow countrymen who have been subjected to genocide?

Well, the colonial mentality of the British press would have us believe this is precisely what we should expect from the people of Afghanistan...

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Poppy Appeal billboard 'vandal' apologises

02-11-2009 15:48 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Other Press | World

photo from kent news
Both the Army Romors Service website and a local paper in Kent are today reporting that a public 'apology' has been issued by the person who subvertised one of the Afghan Generation poppy appeal posters at Gillingham train station. According to the report on Kent News, the same billboard has been subvertised again, this time with the new message "SORRY. NEVER AGAIN...?"

 http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/printertopic=1/t=136587/postdays=0/postorder=asc/start=20.html

 http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Poppy-Appeal-billboard-vandal-apologises--newsinkent29535.aspx?news=local

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Support For The Afghan Poppy Appeal Poster Defacement

31-10-2009 16:09 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Other Press | South Coast | World

As the mainstream media outrage (from the likes of the Hate Mail and Torygraph) dies down, the voices of many people in the armed forces and others who support the posters new message starts to be heard.

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