‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange
For anyone persuaded by the state-corporate campaign of sneers and smears depicting Julian Assange as a shit-smearing narcissist and rapist, the comments made by Nils Melzer, the UN’s special...
View ArticleBuried In Broad Daylight – The ‘Free Press’ And The Leaked OPCW Report On Douma
A defining feature of the propaganda system is that facts supporting the agenda of Western power are pushed to the forefront of the ‘mainstream’ media, while inconvenient facts are buried. A prime...
View ArticleThe Shaving Kit – Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
Last week, UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed the US extradition request to hand over Julian Assange, who is charged with 18 counts of violating the US Espionage Act. Assange’s immediate fate now...
View ArticleSuspending Chris Williamson – The Fury And The Fakery
On June 26, the Labour Party lifted the suspension of pro-Corbyn MP Chris Williamson, triggering a maximum effort propaganda blitz designed to reverse the decision. Williamson had been suspended on...
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The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure...
View ArticleStockholm Syndrome – Julian Assange And The Limits Of Guardian Dissent
Nothing happened on September 2 in central London. Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, did not initiate a protest outside the Home Office. He did not sing and play the Floyd classic ‘Wish You Were...
View Article‘How Dare You!’ The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanity’s extreme...
View Article‘This Is Oil Country!’ – Climate Protests And The Left
The left has a dark secret that is becoming ever harder to ignore: it is riddled with climate scepticism, indifference and denial. Pick your favourite left-progressive writers, check their Twitter...
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Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December...
View ArticleImperial Ambition – Expanding Selves, Shrinking Planet
Awareness is real. Even if the whole world is a dream, the awareness perceiving the dream is real. There is awareness, therefore I am. I am aware of thought, therefore I am not thought – observer and...
View ArticleReopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn
Thoreau got it right: ‘Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’, Penguin, 1983, p.68) The same is certainly true of propaganda. We can laugh...
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The Arrogance Of BBC News
When we started Media Lens in 2001, we had a rather naïve expectation that journalists might: a) want to respond rationally to reasoned criticism; and b) have privileged access to unparalleled...
View ArticleThe Christmas Card – A Tale Of Mystical Mischief
Dan and Daisy were dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones their parents used to know. And so it came to pass, courtesy of a new-fangled loop in the jet stream that shoved a ‘cold blob’...
View Article‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The...
On the face of it, the task seems almost hopeless. As Tolstoy wrote: ‘The power of the government is maintained by public opinion, and with this power the government, by means of its organs – its...
View Article‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’: The Deadly Facade Of ‘Democracy’
If you were mad enough to judge the state of the world by the daily outpourings of ‘mainstream’ media, you would have no real understanding of the perilous state of the human race. Or, if you had...
View ArticleWith Head Lowered And Eyes Averted – Israeli Racism And The ‘Honourable’...
Robert Peston is one of the UK’s most high-profile broadcast journalists, renowned for his theatricality and… curious… halting… delivery. As political editor of ITV News he has enormous influence,...
View Article‘For Unknown Reasons They Waited. And Watched’ – Lancet Editor Exposes...
Over the last 20 years, we have documented some shocking examples of journalistic irresponsibility, but the tweet from ITV’s political editor Robert Peston on March 14 was something special. With...
View Article‘Can I Keep You Safe? Your Future Is Uncertain’: Climate And The Fate Of...
In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the most immediate objective is to slow its spread, minimise the death toll and help people through the crisis. But, despite government promises to support...
View Article‘The People Have Spoken. Bastards’: Leaked Labour Report Shows Party’s Own...
In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by...
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Cogitation: Meditation In An Age Of Cataclysms
If consciousness is an ocean, thoughts are waves that can be churned into vast storms. Have you ever woken in the wee small hours, adrift on your tiny raft of awareness, to find yourself confronted by...
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