From todays globalecho !
Dominic Timms: Media policy dominated by 'cosy cartel', says report
UK
media policy is dominated by a cosy cartel of politicians, government
advisers and industry lobbyists, according to new research.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5336
William Frey: The Tragedy of a Complicit Media
An American public detached from reality is the most damaging
consequence of our servile and complicit media.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5333
Philip Challinor: Don't Mention the War
I
am in receipt of an unsigned email titled "Labour Party Conference
2005". Beneath the title is the date for said conference: 25-29
September, a period when unfortunately I shall be in this country.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5348
George Galloway: "Crawl back under your rock, Mr Palast!"
Until
a couple of days ago I hadn’t heard of Greg Palast in years, the man
who claims to have been pursuing me with questions for two months. He
has never phoned, written, emailed or made any other contact with me,
which is curiously reminiscent of the behavior of the US Senate
committee. Having now forced myself to look at his pernicious writing,
it seems like the deranged ramblings you might expect to find pushed
out from under the door of a locked ward.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5340
Mayer Hillman: Your Planet - The case for rationing
If
we think we can stave off climate catastrophe simply by raising public
awareness, we are deceiving ourselves. The truth is, only urgent and
ruthless government action will do!
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5337
Peter Symonds: Afghanistan election: a mockery of democracy
With
the US-led occupation of Iraq sinking further into the quagmire,
determined efforts have been made by the Bush administration and the
international media to present last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in
Afghanistan in the best possible light.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5335
Jonathan Steele: Above all, this was a vote against neoliberalism
Bereft
of leaders with a convincing programme, Germans have started a
realignment of the political spectrum. Sunday's election shows they
want an alternative
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5334
Helen McCormack: The day that Iraqi anger exploded in the face of the
British occupiers
The
dramatic events began to unfold just before dawn yesterday, when two
British nationals were detained by Iraqi authorities. It emerged later
that they were British soldiers. Dressed in plain clothes - according
to some they were wearing traditional Arab dress - the two men had been
driving in an unmarked car when they arrived at a checkpoint in the
city.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5332
Dan Raphael: Mr. Palast, Please Calm Down!
The
war will not be stopped if we fall into this mistake of finding every
and any failing in each other, unproven though they may be. I have an
open mind about Mr. Galloway, and have not hesitated to praise him for
his undeniable contributions in the past. What I don’t have an open
mind about, is substituting innuendo for proof and turning our energies
against each other. Let’s stop the war, and leave the task of dividing
us to our real enemies -- the ones who are directing the killing right
now.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5330
Michel Chossudovsky: Al Qaeda and the Iraqi Resistance Movement
Has
the US created, as part of a covert intelligence operation, a bogus
"resistance movement" made up of its own Al Qaeda sponsored
"terrorists"? Their suicide attacks target Iraqi civilians rather than
the US military. They contribute to undermining the development of a
broader resistance movement uniting Shia, Sunni, Kurds and Christians
against the illegal occupation of the Iraqi homeland. They also tend to
create, at the international level, divisions within the antiwar and
peace movements.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5322
Andy Rowell: Oil Price Keeps Going Up
There
is an old English saying that ‘whatever goes up must come down’. But
what is worrying many economists and politicians is that, for the oil
price at least, this is no longer true. It just keeps on going up. And
up.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5324
schnews: Ashes To Ashes
“Even
those of us who have tried to follow the war closely are not aware of a
fraction of the horrors unleashed in Iraq.” Author Arundathi Roy at the
World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, 2005.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5321
Juan Cole: Bush's war and the Egyptian elections
Mubarak's rigged victory shows that right-wing predictions of an "Arab
spring" were wishful thinking.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5320
Gary Younge: Please stop fetishising integration. Equality is what
we really need
A decent job with a decent income is still the best path out of the
crudest forms of racism and fundamentalism
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5319
Patrick Cockburn: What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn?
One
billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one
of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving
the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece
weapons.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5316
Leigh Saavedra: The Antiwar Movement Goes on Trial:
Support the St Patrick's Four
Approximately
1,900 U.S. soldiers have been lost in Iraq, in addition to 200 from
other countries that have sent token support. The number of Iraqi
deaths, mostly civilians, soars, estimated to be as high as 28,000 by
some counts and closer to 100,000 by other independent studies.
This was the "war" that the St. Patrick's Four spilled their own blood
to try to stop.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5315
The Independent: Blair tells Murdoch: 'gloating' BBC is 'full of
hatred for America'
"Tony
Blair... told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week and he turned
on the BBC World Service to see what was happening in New Orleans, and
he said it was just full of hate at America and gloating about our
troubles," the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation said.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5304
Robert Fisk: We have long ago lost our moral compass, so how can we
lecture the Islamic world?
Years of Western interference in the Middle East has left the region
heavy with injustices
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5295
Juan Cole: Christopher Hitchens' last battle
Christopher
Hitchens, fighting a rear-guard battle against public disillusionment
with the war, has given 10 reasons why Americans should be proud of the
Iraq war. JUAN COLE gives him 0 marks out of 10.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5273
