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Medialens: WikiLeaks - The Smear and the Denial - Part 1 - The Smear

Medialens | 03-11-2010 15:17 | Iraq | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

“Journalists don't like WikiLeaks”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do... Maybe you've noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.” (Hugo Rifkind Notebook, ‘Remind me. It's the red one I mustn't press, right?,’ The Times, October 26, 2010)

Rifkind is right. The internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that Rifkind’s journalists - described accurately by Peter Wilby as the “unskilled middle class” ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/10/comment.pressandpublishing) - monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that. Readers were free to vote with their notes and coins, of course. But in reality, when it comes to the mainstream media, the public has always been free to choose any colour it likes, so long as it’s corporate ‘black’. The internet is beginning to offer some brighter colours.

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nuclear dawn at rotherhams advanced manufacturing park

stopdeathpark | 02-11-2010 10:47 | Anti-militarism | Technology | Terror War | Sheffield

As advertised on AMPs website;

Nuclear new dawn at the AMP

Site works have commenced on the land where the latest expansions of the University of Sheffield's AMRC will be located.

The seven acre plot at the AMP will house the new Nuclear AMRC and a revolutionary Knowledge Transfer Academy.

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Friday’s terror nonsense: US Intelligence Trades On Fear

Yvonne Ridley | 02-11-2010 08:33 | Terror War | Sheffield | World

We are in the grip of yet another so-called terror plot designed to terrify the wits out of everyone.

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Obama prepares to expand military attacks in Yemen

Bill Van Auken | 02-11-2010 08:24 | Terror War | Sheffield | World

The Obama administration is preparing to escalate its intervention in Yemen, placing US military units under CIA control to facilitate intensified drone attacks and death squad killings.

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Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military

Paul Mitchell | 30-10-2010 23:30 | History | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

The Guardian newspaper has obtained access to training manuals that detail the interrogation techniques used by British military personnel in Iraq. In an exclusive report published Monday, the newspaper quotes from the documents, which are described as an “Introduction to Interrogation and Tactical Questioning”.

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Lib Dem Ministers Complicit in Torture

Craig Murray | 30-10-2010 22:53 | History | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

Mr Avazov, who was boiled alive (quite literally) in the Jaslyk torture chambers
Nothing has changed. Under the Lib/Con coalition, MI6 continue to receive intelligence obtained through torture abroad, and Lib Dem ministers will be seeing intelligence obtained from hellish torture chambers in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and numerous other capitals.

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WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity

Tom Eley | 27-10-2010 09:39 | History | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield | World

WikiLeaks’ release of nearly 400,000 US military documents from operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 brings to light new evidence that private security contractors killed civilians with impunity.

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The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”

Keith Jones | 25-10-2010 11:17 | Analysis | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

US and NATO officials revealed earlier this month that they are facilitating talks between senior Taliban leaders and the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai—a regime that Washington and its allies have sustained in power through a nine-year-long counter-insurgency war.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

Debb | 24-10-2010 20:26 | Palestine | Social Struggles | Terror War | Sheffield | South Coast

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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WikiLeaks: the largest classified military leak in history

WikiLeaks | 23-10-2010 08:37 | History | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield | World

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

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Hollywood - Weaponised Dream Factory: an Interview with Matthew Alford

Media Lens | 22-10-2010 09:16 | Culture | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Where They Have Holes In Their Souls

We bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more intellectual, far more highbrow, than someone who takes the Mail. To read the Mail is to be far more responsible than someone who gawks in the Mirror. A Guardian reader is highbrow with a human face: intellectual, aware, like other “broadsheet” readers, but with a much greater commitment to making the world a better, fairer place. Independent readers share the same commitment, perhaps a little less earnestly.

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It Is Official: The US Is A Police State

Paul Craig Roberts | 26-09-2010 20:01 | Analysis | Other Press | Terror War | Sheffield | World

On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are ‘seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.’”

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9/11 Truth News: A Website Focused on Responsible News and Information

The 9/11 Truth News team: Victoria Ashley, Cosmos, Scott Ford, Julian Ware | 10-09-2010 13:01 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

9/11 Truth News
Not sure what to think about 9/11? Perhaps you're curious, but you want to avoid the circus of conspiracy theories, lies and disinformation? Starting now, you can go to 9/11 Truth News  http://www.911truthnews.com/ for updates on under-reported news, effective activism being done by the international 9/11 Truth Movement, and highlights of the best research and scientific information.

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Flying the flag, faking the news

John Pilger | 10-09-2010 12:12 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield | World

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term "public relations". Bernays believed in "engineering public consent" and creating "false realties" as news. Here are examples of how this works today.

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Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War

GRTV | 08-09-2010 18:45 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Video
$547 million. That’s the Pentagon’s P.R. budget. They’re using it to spread mistruths and misplaced hope in ‘progress’ with one goal in mind: to extend the brutal, costly Afghanistan War.

General Petraeus' media blitz is only the tip of the iceberg in the Pentagon's effort to sell war to the American people. The Defense Department has a budget of more than $500 million for public relations efforts directed at U.S. citizens, a slice of a much larger information operations effort to influence public opinion. But no matter how much they spend on P.R. and information operations, the facts on the ground show that the Afghanistan War isn't making us safer, and it's not worth the costs.

Join us as we fight back against the spin.

More info:  http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan

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Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe

Media Lens | 07-09-2010 14:00 | Health | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield

Compassion is sometimes a central theme of media reporting. On August 25, journalists across the UK described how a British woman, Mary Bale, had been filmed dropping a cat into a wheelie bin. The cat was later released unharmed. The Guardian reported and commented on the story on August 24 and 25. Matt Seaton wrote:

“OK, there are lots of acts of random cruelty involving humans on humans every day, but this was somebody's pet, for Pete's sake. Who would do such a thing?” ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/24/coventry-cat-wheelie-bin)

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Michael Parenti: Deep Ideology and Conspiracy

Chris | 06-09-2010 12:27 | Analysis | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Audio
Attached is a audio version of a talk given by Michael Parenti in May 2010 at the Understanding Deep Politics Conference held in Santa Cruz,  http://understandingdeeppolitics.org/conference-video

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Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks, Pvt. Manning

Bill Van Auken | 30-07-2010 11:23 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

In response to the WikiLeaks posting of tens of thousands of secret documents on the Afghanistan war, the Pentagon has launched a manhunt within the military and called in the FBI for possible prosecution of the actual whistleblower who supplied the evidence of US atrocities.

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The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war

Bill Van Auken | 29-07-2010 08:05 | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

The public release of the 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks, together with the reaction of the media and the official establishment, has immense political implications for the antiwar struggle in the US and internationally.

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Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war

James Cogan | 26-07-2010 23:24 | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Eight months after the Obama administration announced a “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to crush the Taliban-led insurgency, the rate of US and allied casualties has soared to the highest level of the nearly nine-year war and is beginning to match the bloodiest stages of the occupation of Iraq.

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