UK Indymedia - Sheffield Other Press Newswire Archive

Damascus terror bombing: Made in the USA

“Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee.

Close Newcastle Animal Lab National March

On May 26th UK activists will converge in Newcastle to march against Animal murderers at Newcastle university.

22 thousand animals are tested upon every year and Newcastle university is one of the last remaining universities to perform testing on primates.

Its time to say NO to animal testing.

Go with Green Media

Alex Smith | 25-03-2012 05:46 | Ecology | Other Press | Sheffield

How can we be optimistic, facing global challenges? Publisher of The Mother Earth News & Utne Reader, Bryan Welch explains. Ecoshock's Gerri Williams takes us to the D.C. Environmental Film Festival. Harry Lynch, Director of "Switch" on the search for energy replacements. Alexandra Cousteau on National Geographic film "Blue Planet North America Expedition".

Grassroots community action round-up

A round up of campaigns organised by people in their communities including saving the local school, health service, and prevent nuclear waste dumping.

Social Centres Breakout

With government moves to outlaw squatting in residential buildings and the organisation of activists into a movement of positive action against the criminalising of squatters, once again radical social spaces is back on the agenda and the forefront of people’s political activity.

Once again, war is prime time and journalism's role is taboo

The following article by John Pilger starts with a reference to 22nd May 2007 Guardian front page, which was the subject of the following UK Indymedia feature at the time:

Imperial Disinformation: The Guardian's Iran/Iraq Coverage

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371753.html

Media lies used to provide a pretext for another "humanitarian war"

According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisations, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from? Many media reports on the alleged deadly repression by the Syrian government fail to mention the sources of their information, which are very often referred to solely as "human rights groups" or "activists":

The reliance of the mainstream media on information emanating from anonymous groups provides a biased understanding of the Syrian protests, which in turn supports the broader objective of destabilizing the Syrian regime. When information from unknown sources pertaining to the death toll is published either by a mainstream media or a recognized human rights group, it is invariably picked up and considered as "factual evidence" by other news sources or think tanks, without further verification. Moreover, in the process the information is subject to further distortion.

UK tabloid: Shocking revelation on 10th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan

The real shocking issue is the persistent denial of the genocide of Afghan people.

The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian: A Thought Police for the Internet Age

There could be no better proof of the revolution – care of the internet – occurring in the accessibility of information and informed commentary than the reaction of our mainstream, corporate media.

Media manipulation of 9/11 Truth

To this day, 9/11 mythology remains official dogma on air and in print. As a result, most Americans remain unaware of the biggest lie of our time and its horrific consequences, touching their lives directly.

Sunday marks the 10th 9/11 anniversary. As on previous anniversaries, the media cover everything except what Americans most need to know - the truth.

The Libya media hoax: Fabricated scenes of jubilation & euphoria on Green Squa

Surpassing previous mass media fabrications, both in scale and boldness, yesterday morning's Al Jazeera mise-en-scène will surely go down in history as one of the most cynical hoaxes committed by corporate media since the manipulated pictures of Iraqis topplying Saddam Hussein's statue after the US invasion in 2003.

Film presentation about anti-fur activism in Norway, this Wednesday in Sheffield

An activist from the Norwegian animal rights group Nettverk For Dyrs Frihet (Network For Animals' Freedom) will be presenting short films about the group's undercover investigations into the country's fox and mink farms. We'll be starting at 7pm in the Rutland Arms at 86 Brown Street (near to the Showroom Cinema and the railway station). Newcomers are especially welcome!

US navy seals destroyed to cover up Washington’s Bin Laden execution hoax?

The wiping out of 30 US special forces in the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan comes at a time when Washington’s official version of how it carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden was falling apart from incredulity.

New evidence in UK phone hacking scandal implicates the Murdochs

Stephen Alexander | 20-08-2011 06:39 | Other Press | Sheffield

Explosive new evidence has surfaced in the News of the World phone hacking and police corruption scandal, exposing as fraudulent the single “rogue” reporter line of defence pursued by News International, the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation media empire.

Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens

On June 13, George Monbiot devoted his Guardian column to naming and shaming a 'malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts'. 'The facts', Monbiot noted, 'are the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.'

British media quick to dismiss death in Murdoch phone hacking case

Robert Stevens | 25-07-2011 21:45 | Other Press | Sheffield

In an article posted July 20

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/07/482488.html , the World Socialist Web Site noted the rush to judgement by the Hertfordshire Police in the UK, who issued an extraordinary statement declaring the death of former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious”. This statement was made just hours after police arrived at Hoare’s home to discover his body and before a post-mortem had been conducted.

Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship’s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast’s foreign editor.

Boy, Do We Need A Hippocratic Oath For Journalists

For the record: Around June 17 or 18, both Edward S. Herman and I each began submitting manuscripts to the Guardian of London, prompted by false and misleading claims that had been made by the British writer George Monbiot on June 14, in his weekly commentary for this prestigious newspaper. "Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers," was the title the Guardian had given it. At Monbiot's own website, the title he had chosen was more direct: "Naming the Genocide Deniers" (June 13).

10 questions the MPs did not ask Murdoch

As predicted the day before the Murdoch's were questioned by MPs, the difficult questions did not get asked.

Why did police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”

The British security service is the elephant within the room in the Murdoch press hacking scandal

The Guardian, along with the rest of the MSM have so far managed to ignore the elephant within the room in the Murdoch press hacking scandal. One would have thought given the latest revelations about Gordon Brown and his family, someone might have asked the question exactly what was the British Secret Intelligence Service doing whilst News International hacked into the British prime ministers private life.

'Extreme Dishonesty’ – The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and Venezuela

The headline of last Sunday’s Observer article on Venezuela set the tone for the slanted and opportunistic piece of political ‘reporting’ that followed:

‘Noam Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo Chávez for “assault” on democracy’.

How the makers of Just Do It fought the law

In the following article Emily James, the director of Just Do It

http://just-do-it.org.uk/ explains how she made the film while avoiding endangering activists. See also the chat with her,

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/06/480536.html and the Q&A session following the films premier,

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/06/480620.html

Anarchism: the A word

Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

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