Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
John Pilger | The liberal game of silencing the messenger
Eye-opening John Pilger article in the New Statesman on Wikileaks and the attempts to extradite Assange, aided by the Swedish right (under the tutelage of Karl Rove). It’s also about “the paper-thin liberalism of those who guard the limits of free speech” and how they [...]
The half-page, feature length article by Peter Sherwell about the current situation in Venezuela that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 29th November follows an established pattern of unsympathetic and negative reporting in European and North American media, some of it touched on in my book Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. While this [...]
Adbelbaset al-Megrahi walked free yesterday, having been freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish executive. The US is outraged, as, understandably are many families of victims of the Lockerbie terrorist attack, and everyone, including Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, questioned the taste of the hero’s welcome afforded Megrahi in Tripoli. The Libyans have pointed out [...]
The Media Bite blog on the morphing of the economic debate
“It’s official, the barrage of PR and spin referred to by Stephen Kinsella has finally, and quite brilliantly morphed what was a crisis caused by establishment greed and corruption into a crisis of public service expenditure.
The banking boogiemen have slinked off into the shadows, the [...]
At the heart of Rod Stoneman’s book lie questions about power. Specifically, the power to construct reality, and to create both ‘knowledge’ and ‘truth’.
My first tangible encounter with apartheid was probably Richard Attenborough’s 1987 film, Cry Freedom. The moving images brought to life my incomplete, abstract knowledge in powerful ways. Apartheid, for me, was to [...]
The view from the world’s second-tallest building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, is a bit of an anti-climax - once you get near the top there’s not much to see that can compare with the skyscraper itself. You can’t help being impressed, though, at the ambition behind the Towers. In case visitors over-look what [...]
