On May, 2012, the BBC published a photo showing several rows of dead Iraqi children to illustrate a recent massacre in the Syrian city of Houla. As the BBC came under fire for trying to sell a NATO-led attack on Syria, a BBC spokesman has shirked responsibility for checking the authenticity of the image saying [...]
For obvious reasons, Israel’s image is deteriorating worldwide. (Activestills) By Jamal Kanj In response to questions rating which country ‘… is having a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world?’ Israel was tie with N Korea for third place with highest negative influence on the global stage. The 2012 BBC Country Ratings [...]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the most senior Roman Catholic in Scotland, called for the introduction of a Robin Hood tax. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images Cardinal accuses David Cameron of ‘immoral’ behaviour and favouring rich Cardinal Keith O’Brien says PM should not protect only his ‘very rich colleagues’ but consider his moral obligation to the poor One of Britain’s most prominent religious [...]
George Galloway: ‘Winning Bradford West, with the landslide that we did, was the best day of my life.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian George Galloway: ‘I believe that on judgment day, people have to answer for what they did’ The newly elected MP for Bradford West strongly believes politics should not be secular, so [...]
Sir Michael Lyons said of Jeremy Hunt: ‘I don’t think he had a very high regard for his civil servants.’ Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images link http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/28/bbc-jeremy-hunt-murdochs-news-corporation Sir Michael Lyons, a former chairman of the BBC Trust, has launched a devastating personal attack on Jeremy Hunt over his relationship with the Murdoch empire, putting fresh pressure on the prime minister to [...]
Kicking off the 2011 Revolts in the age of the Networked Individual Wed, 04/11/2012 – 06:27 — AndrewNFlood Printer-friendly version To what extent do the revolutions and revolts of 2011 reflect a new world born from the shell of the old? Were these revolts of the [...]
Mike Fisher (CC-BY) Texas Has a ‘School to Prison Pipeline’ More than one in seven Texan children are involved with the criminal justice system, according to a shocking BBC report, and it’s because the state’s cops and judges are ticketing, arresting and imprisoning children for crimes like writing on a desk and not showing up to [...]
How did we forget about MAD? March 5, 2012Ben HarrisonLeave a commentGo to comments link http://uw20sciencemediaandculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/how-did-we-forget-about-mad/ I recently came across an article on BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17026538?ref=nf) about Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD. Back in the Cold War era, MAD was all across the news. There was a time when combined, the US and Russia had almost 70,000 nuclear warheads. School [...]
While critics say Galloway won thanks to ‘the Muslim community‘, a broad range of voters supported him [EPA] London, United Kingdom - US Congressman Tip O’Neill once remarked that “all politics is local”. But some political events are more local than others, if the response to George Galloway‘s victory in the Bradford West by-election last week [...]
Growing Gas Cloud Forces Evacuation of Oil Rig in North Sea French-owned platform is abandoned with no answers yet on how to avert further calamity – Common Dreams staff An oil and gas platform owned by French oil giant Total has been evacuated and an ‘exclusion zone’ has been set up around it, as [...]
Mr Silva (left) has been involved in many controversial incidents Sri Lanka minister Mervyn Silva threatens journalists By Charles HavilandBBC News, Colombo Continue reading the main story Related Stories Minister binds ‘errant’ official A Sri Lankan cabinet minister has threatened violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government. [...]
Senior Hamas official in Gaza Mahmoud Zahhar (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar said on Monday he does not expect an Israeli strike on Iran due to Israel’s international isolation. The senior official in Gaza told Ma’an that Iran continues to support the Palestinian cause and the Hamas movement, but denied Israeli media [...]
Global Dimming This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led [...]
Satellite television, unlike internet-based new media, required no interactivity and tended to reach its target audience with relative ease [EPA] Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from chapter six, and the sixth of a series of excerpts that Al Jazeera will be publishing, from The Invisible Arab: The promise and peril of the Arab revolutions. Missed [...]
AFP photo It can not be stressed enough that the Greek bailout is really about getting present investors some return on their money. It is not a loan to tide over the Greek economy while they look to carry on helping their own people. The ultimate price to be paid is for Greeks to become [...]
Former Liberian Ruler ‘Worked for CIA’ Pentagon Discloses Taylor Ties, Offers No Details by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report today in the Boston Globe has revealed that former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor had ties with both the CIA and the Pentagon’s internal spy agency [...]
There are a lot of things you could call Clarkson, from popular to fascist. Fascist is far closer to the truth as his points of view so often collide with anything or principle seen as decent. But a recent BBC description of him as a “cultural treasure” probably says as much about the fascism of [...]
Uzbekistan has become a major supply route to NATO forces in Afghanistan Continue reading the main story Related Stories Country profile: Uzbekistan Pressure on Uzbekistan to end child cotton labour Western governments are ignoring human rights abuses in Uzbekistan as they seek closer ties with the country, Human Rights Watch [...]
Sir David Attenborough watches a ringed seal mother and pup, Svalbard during last episode of Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice. Photograph: Dan Rees/BBC Polar bears have bad breath – really bad – imagine eating nothing but raw seal blubber all your life and never brushing your teeth and you’ll get the idea. I know this [...]
After the first post-Mubarak elections we focus on Egypt and its media in transition; plus China‘s new media campaign. Last week, we returned to Tahrir Square, where the world watched Egyptians rise up for the second time since Mubarak’s fall. This week we have stayed put – to make sure we [...]
AP / Michael Probst) The Euro sculpture stands in front of the European Central Bank in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, last month. In a speech Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confronted the economic quagmire otherwise known as the eurozone and declared that France and Germany would be the key players in Europe’s rehabilitation. Also important in [...]
Complaints to the BBC about Jeremy Clarkson‘s comments on The One Show about the public sector strike have reached 21,000. Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA Jeremy Clarkson’s One Show rant: complaints hit 21,000 BBC faces biggest complaints storm since ‘Sachsgate‘ row as Top Gear presenter claims he discussed comments in advance reddit this Comments (1099) Josh Halliday [...]
Jeremy Clarkson‘s One Show strike outburst – full text I have a saying that I like that “fascism always starts at home.” This is a prime example of just how much a fascist can do and get away with when he/she is part of the fifth estate. Here we have the UK in the middle [...]
Office workers take evasive action from the snakes in Uttar Pradesh Continue reading the main story Related Stories On patrol with Delhi’s snake catchers Indian ‘snake horde’ man arrested Indian charmers want their snakes An angry snakecharmer in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has let loose dozens of snakes in a government office, [...]
Would Obama Declare 3 Days of Peace to Pay for Food for Starving Afghans? By Ralph Lopez - Posted on 26 November 2011 The most little-understood fact of war, in my opinion, is the sheer, mind-boggling, nearly incomprehensible magnitude of the money which is spent on a daily basis to keep the occupation and boom-and-zoom operations going. Former General [...]
YouTube / liarpoliticians A rich banker who appears to have learned none of the lessons of 20th-century economic history. A newscaster who snickers at an impassioned argument. And a reporter dismissed as a young girl who will one day learn better. This exchange between a former Goldman Sachs partner, a BBC correspondent and British journalist Laurie Penny, [...]
British Military Chief: Hundreds of Troops to Remain in Afghanistan in 2016 by Jason Ditz, November 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The clashes between British Prime Minister David Cameron and his military chief, General Sir David Richards, have been unusually public, but it seems that Cameron’s calls for a [...]
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe‘s parents were among the targets of News of the World surveillance, according to private detective Derek Webb. Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images News of the World paid me to follow 90 people, claims private detective Former policeman says he surveilled figures including Prince William and the parents of Harry Potter actor [...]
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned that parts of the capital could be flooded Continue reading the main story Related Stories Floods: ‘We may be evacuated’ Flood complacency evaporates in Bangkok Thailand flooding ‘to last weeks’ All parts of Bangkok are now vulnerable to flooding, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has warned. In a televised address, she [...]
Labour MP John McDonnell has challenged the government to disclose details about alleged meetings with the Murdochs to discuss the BBC licence fee freeze. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA reddit this John Plunkett guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 16.13 BST Article history John McDonnell MP calls for more details about ministerial meetings with News Corporation before licence [...]
Met facing mounting crisis as activist spying operation unravels Senior police officers’ judgment questioned as revelations emerge about the behaviour of undercover agents Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe‘s report into the undercover policing of protests is now being reviewed. Photograph: Bruce Adams / Rex Pictures It was shortly after 10am, in a corner at a primary [...]
OBAMA SENDING U.S. TROOPS TO UGANDA AP Photo LRA leader Joseph Kony at a meeting with Ugandan officials, lawmakers and representatives from NGOs in 2006 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Obama announced Friday that he has ordered a “small number” of combat-ready U.S. soldiers—somewhere around 100, the BBC says—to help local forces in [...]
Labouring under an illusion By William Bowles Posted on October 10, 2011 by dandelionsalad by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info September 30, 2011 Note: This is in the way of a continuation of my last essay ‘In the belly of the beast‘. Nothing could illustrate the paradox better than ‘the party of labour’, financially supported largely [...]
Huhne says sorry to May for revealing conference cat claim was Ukip copy Energy secretary admits he tipped off Guardian reporter about similarity of speech to comments from Ukip leader Nigel Farage reddit this Patrick Wintour, political editor guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 October 2011 16.54 BST Article history Theresa May claimed at the Tory conference that [...]
Close up: Smoking on film becomes a burning issue An 18, cigarette or no … Uma Thurman in a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Photograph: Rex Features A report published this week suggests films showing smoking should automatically be classified 18 reddit this Henry Barnes guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 September 2011 17.24 BST Article [...]
News stories September 19, 2011 Why Are Kids in Jail? Bart Lubow: Zero tolerance policies and racial bias are pushing many kids out of school and in to jail Go to story | Go to homepage Dale Farm Travelers in Final Plea Before Eviction Residents of Dale Farm who face the clearance of the UK’s [...]
Former MI5 chief urges terrorist talks Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, attacked anti-terrorist laws passed under Labour. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller says dialogue with terror groups, including al-Qaida, requires courage but ‘is necessary’ reddit this Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Tuesday 13 September 2011 Article history The former head [...]
The BBC had asked NATO to investigate the incident after what it called ‘conflicting reports’ [GALLO/GETTY] US soldier ‘mistakenly’ killed BBC reporter NATO says a soldier mistakenly shot journalist in south Afghanistan in July and will not face any disciplinary action. Last Modified: 08 Sep 2011 A US soldier shot dead an Afghan journalist [...]
Media consumers become interested in events in the Third World when they are provided context by journalists who examine issues like climate change, foreign intervention and economic trends [AFP] Reports of famine vary wildly in their impact. Sometimes images of emaciated children in relief camps provoke an outpouring of charitable giving. The music and entertainment industry [...]
The disgraceful US imperial presence in South America has been very accurately chronicled for decades. It involved the whole gamut of the imperial destruction of the South. Everything took pace from, torture, to phoney regime change, to the destruction of workers’ unions and the death of dissidents including priests and teachers. All these measures were needed to enforce absolute [...]
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson became David Cameron’s aide and the Tories director of communications in May 2007. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian Andy Coulson was just a little too indiscreet, telling a handful of colleagues at Conservative campaign headquarters that he was still receiving substantial severance payments from News Internationalmonths after he joined [...]
Damn it or fear it, the forbidden truth is an insurrection in Britain 18 August 2011 On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of six or more, who waved me aside. They surrounded a young black man who, like me, was [...]
Andy Coulson received cash payments from News International until the end of 2007, according to a report by the BBC’s Robert Peston. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron is facing fresh questions about his decision to hire Andy Coulson in 2007 after it was reported that his former communications director received several hundred thousand pounds [...]
Riots and the Underclass By ALEXANDER COCKBURN What’s a riot without looting? We want it, they’ve got it! You’d think from the press that looting was alien to British tradition, imported by immigrants more recent than the Normans. Not so. Gavin Mortimer, author of The Blitz, had an amusing piece in the First Post about the conduct [...]
British Riots: Elites “Shocked” The Poor Are Rising Up Against Brutal Austerity Measures LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest World headlines via email. Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot [...]
The Toxteth monument to Mohamed Bouazizi disappeared the day after Mark Duggan was shot [Courtesy of the artist] In the heart of Toxteth, Liverpool, a mysterious statue appeared in the early hours of July 30. It was a monument to Mohamed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian man who, after being humiliated by police, had set himself alight [...]
The Machigenga tribe live in the Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Glenn Shepard/Survival International A series about an Amazonian tribe that aired on the BBC has been accused of “faking” scenes and mistranslating interviews to negatively portray the tribe as “sex-obsessed, mean savages”, according to accusations made by two eminent experts. The show, called Mark & Olly: [...]
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual 21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A [...]
You can acces coverage on the BBC and al Jazeera ay BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254260 also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14259328 There are cross links at both these sites If you subscribe to cable there is god coverage on the BBC Channel Al Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/2011722222451150369.html Der Spiegel at http://www.spiegel.de/international/ also at http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,776071,00.html France 24 http://www.france24.com/en/ and specific site at 24 is [...]
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th July 2011 Is Murdoch now finished in the UK? As the pursuit of Gordon Brown by the Sunday Times and the Sun blows the ¬hacking scandal into new corners of the old [...]
