By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
‘The BBC cannot be neutral in the struggle between truth and untruth, justice and injustice, freedom and slavery, compassion and cruelty, tolerance and intolerance.’ Thus read a 1972 internal document called Principles and Practice in News and Current Affairs laying out the guidelines for the BBC’s coverage of conflicts. It appears to [...]
The Way of Izvestia: BBC as a Metaphor for State Propaganda
The Staged Conflict Between Peres and Erdogan
By Christopher Jon Bjerknes | Jewishracism.com
The Jews are pitting the Prime Minister of Turkey, Erdogan, against Iran’s Ahmadinejad, as if they were rival “saviors” of the Palestinians, in order to instigate World War Three on behalf of Israel and the Jews, and in the process destroy Turkey and Iran. On 31 January 2009, I [...]
Full Story »‘Myth of Exile’: Justifying Slaughter in Gaza
By Janine Roberts
Many have been appalled by the seemingly mindless orgy of destruction of families, children, homes, streets, shops and orchards in Gaza carried out by the Israeli armed forces. It left me wanting to know what has happened to make ordinary well-educated Israelis think that it is morally right to do this to their [...]
Obama will be more of a ‘makeover’ than a ‘remaking’ of the US
Press Release by the Liberation party Britain
London, UK – In his inaugural address, US President Barack Obama talked of “remaking America” and said “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect”. The hatred for Bush and the unpopularity of US policy over the last 8 years [...]
We will all remember where we were today – even in lazily cynical Britain
By Polly Toynbee
There has never been a day like it for Britain’s postwar generations. As that inauguration speech echoes out, the globe itself seems to inhale a mighty, collective intake of breath, frighteningly audacious in its hope.
A BBC World Service poll shows a tidal wave of optimism about what Obama will do, spread out across [...]
