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The Anatomy Of Feeling Unloved

Buddhist writer Harvey Aronson shone a bright light on a hidden truth: ‘Most of us habitually think this way: “Jayne lost the book I lent her. She is irresponsible and awful.” It is a lot harder to...

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A Message About Noam Chomsky: An Update

No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular,...

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‘This Is A Sharp Time’ – Israel’s ‘Day Of Joy’

In his very last article, ‘We are Spartacus’, published just a month before his death in December, John Pilger included a quote that exactly captured the truth of our time: ‘“This is a sharp time,...

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Did The West Provoke The Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled

Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system – every newspaper, website, TV channel – to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even...

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‘Straight As A Die’– Giving Starmer A Free Pass

The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear: ‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’ This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading...

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‘Aligned With Israel’s Propaganda Strategy’: BBC Correspondent Challenges the...

Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruhayem, a Beirut-based BBC correspondent. Basing...

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Urgent Request For Support – Media Lens In Financial Crisis

Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system (‘MSM’). We argue that the...

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‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’– Israel’s 2.1 million Victims

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were...

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‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of...

Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the...

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Expanding Beyond Earth – The Illusions Of ‘Progress’

In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefited from ‘men to whom even the most enlightened...

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