Media Lens debunks the BBC’s humanitarian interventionists by Neil Clark It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out “media alerts” to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens—the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales […]
Lovers of turbo-neoliberalism, rejoice – and take your bottles of Moet to a prime ringside seat; there won’t be a nastier catfight this summer than the opening rounds opposing two Western giants. Forget about the Pentagon “pivoting” to Asia without ever abandoning the Middle East; nothing compares with this voyage in the entrails of turbo-capitalism, worthy of a neo-Balzac by […]
Cyber crime is big business in the US. It’s used to spy, steal, harass competition, political opponents, or to stage an attack and blamed it on a foreign enemy. Is the government in on this crime industry? Yes, and in bigger ways than you can imagine… This trend is enabled domestically by an institutionally corrupt US legal system and a […]
By Maan Independent News Agency Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948. Now 80, Ghatheyya was once a carefree teenager who used to live with her mother and sister in the village of al-Qastina, northeast of Gaza. Although her early life was marked by tragedy — her grandmother died when […]
AMSTERDAM: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands – says she has received a complaint about Israel’s 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation by Toby Sterling The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the […]
In a series of prosecutions, precedents are being established for the criminalization of political dissent in America by Tom Carter (World Socialist Web Site) Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was arrested and charged under “terrorism” laws merely for posting lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon bombings. He faces 20 years in prison. A […]
The people of Antakya blame Erdogan terrorist supporting foreign policy for the bombings in Reyhanli. BSN Editor’s Note: For almost two years, British MI6 and SAS have been training FSA terrorists in these gruesome acts directed initially against the civilian population of Syria.
5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror America’s allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations by Alex Kane The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has […]
By Chris Hedges Murder is our national sport. We murder tens of thousands with our industrial killing machines in Afghanistan and Iraq. We murder thousands more from the skies over Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen with our pilotless drones. We murder each other with reckless abandon. And, as if we were not drenched in enough human blood, we murder prisoners—most […]
By David Cromwell The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. The Conservatives ended […]
By James Burgess A group of nine student journalists from the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative have created a website as part of a project to report on the US energy security situation. An incredibly interesting article on the site, and written by Dana Ballout, looks at how oil travels around the world on the seas, and where the vulnerable […]
The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory to one of the most grievous crimes that can be committed against humanity by Robert Parry The courage of the Guatemalan people and […]
