Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The ‘Danger Zone’
Last week, climate researchers at both NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 2014 was the planet's warmest year in the modern record, going all the way back to...
View ArticleFeral Journalism - Rewilding Dissent
One of the weirdest features of contemporary culture is the way even the best corporate journalists write as though under enemy occupation. Journalists admit, even in public, but particularly in...
View ArticleConundrum – Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not....
View Article'Corrosive, Shallow, Herd-Like And Gross' - Peter Oborne And The Corporate Media
Last week, Peter Oborne resigned as chief political commentator at the Telegraph, writing: 'The Telegraph's recent coverage of HSBC amounts to a form of fraud on its readers.' And yet Oborne is no...
View Article‘A Conspiracy Of Silence’ – HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
The corporate media have swiftly moved on from Peter Oborne's resignation as chief political commentator at the Telegraph and his revelations that the paper had committed 'a form of fraud' on its...
View ArticleLove For Libya: 2011-2015
Islamic State's horrific mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians last month forced a reluctant UK media system to return to Libya, scene of saturation news coverage in 2011. Then, the media lens...
View ArticleWhen Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western...
View ArticleHillary Clinton - Of Glass Ceilings And Shattered Countries
We live in a time when compassionate rhetoric is used as a weapon of state-corporate control. The rhetoric focuses on ethical concerns such as racial, gender and same-sex equality, but is disconnected...
View ArticleUnfree Elections – The Corporate Media, UK General Election And Predictable...
The famous physicist Albert Einstein was fond of Gedankenexperimenten – thought experiments – which tested his understanding of physics problems and stimulated solutions to them. For example, when he...
View ArticleTesting The Limits - Paul Krugman Of The New York Times and Gary Younge of...
Paul Krugman and Gary Younge are two of the most honest commentators currently writing in two of the best American and British newspapers. The extent of their truth-telling tells us much about the...
View Article‘We Just Publish The Position Of The British Government’ – Edward Snowden,...
In the wake of the greatest crime of the twenty-first century, the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, you might have thought that the days of passing off unattributed government and intelligence...
View Article‘Address Your Remarks To Downing Street’ –The Sunday Times Editor Deepens His...
George Orwell once wrote: 'I really don't know which is more stinking, the Sunday Times or The Observer. I go from one to the other like an invalid turning from side to side in bed and getting no...
View ArticleDaesh, The Revolutionary Neoliberal Party and the British Falsehood Corporation
'It's A Distortion That The BBC Wants To Be Fair' Lord Hall, the director general of the BBC, is to be questioned by MPs over his refusal to refer to Islamic State using the term 'Daesh' (an Arabic...
View ArticleFantasy Politics - 'Corbyn's Morons' And The 'Sensible Approach'
In May, voters grasped Spanish political orthodoxy and shook it like a rag doll: 'The anti-austerity party Podemos claimed its biggest victory in Barcelona, where activist Ada Colau seized control of...
View ArticleWhitewash - The Guardian Readers’ Editor Responds On Jeremy Corbyn
In our previous media alert, we described 'the panic-driven hysterical hate-fest campaign' being waged against Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn right across the corporate media 'spectrum'....
View Article‘Bullying’ – BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The...
The BBC's Nick Robinson has made a career out of telling the public what leading politicians say and do; sometimes even what they 'think'. This stenography plays a key role in 'the mainstream media',...
View ArticleCorbyn And The End Of Time - The 'Crisis Of Democracy'
Unsurprisingly perhaps, our search of UK newspapers for the terms 'Jeremy Corbyn', 'Vikings' and 'Mayans' delivered only one result. After all, how could they possibly be linked? Rachel Sylvester...
View ArticleInvisible War Crimes – The Corporate Media On Yemen
Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' – the BBC. An online piece titled 'Yemen crisis: Who is...
View ArticleMedia Activism In A Time Of Hope - An Appeal For Support
It is normally impossible for us to regard the leader of a major British or American political party without cringing at their compromised, corporatised, plastic personalities. We like the fact that...
View ArticleNuclear War And Corbyn – The Fury And The Farce
Last month, 250,000 party members voted Jeremy Corbyn leader of the Labour party, 'the largest mandate ever won by a Party Leader'. The combined might of the political and media establishment had...
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