NOVANEWS
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem
Chair of West Midland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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Where is media accountability for years repeating US lies over “terrorism”?
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Marrickville, BDS and Palestine in eyes of The Jerusalem Post
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Let’s not be surprised that al-Qaeda works with British intelligence
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Canberra wants to look tough on refugees while privatised care dehumanises all
Where is media accountability for years repeating US lies over “terrorism”?Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:37 PM PDTMany in the Western media and political elites have spent years since 9/11 smearing a litany of Muslim “terrorists” because the US leaked selective information to friendly journalists and leaders. Serious questions were dismissed. The Murdoch press globally loved to hype bogus US claims about the “worst of the worst” at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. So to read today this, in Murdoch’sAustralian by Sally Neighbour, is welcome but when will the self-analysis come, if ever? What of the countless articles sourced solely from US intelligence in the pages of the Murdoch media? Media needs to grow a memory, or the general public will treat you with appropriate contempt:
The secret files released by WikiLeaks on the two Australians formerly consigned to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp provide a unique and disturbing window into the quality of the intelligence relied on by the US to confine terror suspects in the prison camp supposedly reserved for “the worst of the worst”.
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Marrickville, BDS and Palestine in eyes of The Jerusalem PostPosted: 25 Apr 2011 06:59 PM PDTOne week after Sydney’s Marrickville BDS vote, the issue continues to resonate globally. I was interviewed late last week by the pro-settler and conservative Jerusalem Post newspaper. The journalist was friendly enough but it was clear I speaking to a man who didn’t see the West Bank as occupied but merely Judea and Samaria (the biblical names for areas controlled by the Zionist state). |
Let’s not be surprised that al-Qaeda works with British intelligencePosted: 25 Apr 2011 06:21 PM PDTOops:
An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military’sGuantánamo Bay prison camp. Leading dissident British historian Mark Curtis writes in his last book, Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam, that London has routinely helped Islamists in the name of allegedly protecting the homeland.
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Canberra wants to look tough on refugees while privatised care dehumanises allPosted: 25 Apr 2011 06:06 PM PDTIt’s a sad sight seeing Immigration Minister Chris Bowen talking about punishing asylum seekers for his own government’s mistakes. Any chance he’d like to examine why so many refugees are suffering prolonged mental trauma under his care? Of course not.
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