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Two infosec blunders that betrayed the Russian spy ring

Chris Williams | 06-07-2010 19:47 | Other Press | Technology | Sheffield

Everyone is having fun this week speculating on all aspects of the alleged Russian spy ring busted in the US on Monday. How were they initially detected? Are they just a decoy to hide the real spies? Why did the US go public now? Has anyone got any more pictures of Anna Chapman for the front pages?

Medialens: McChrystal - Death Squad Poster Boy

The sacking of the head of NATO’s military command in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, caused a surge in coverage of the man described by political analyst James Petras as “Cheney’s chief assassin”.

Petraeus signals escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, General David Petraeus, Obama’s new commander in Afghanistan, said he would reconsider the rules of engagement as part of an intensification of the US assault on the Afghan people. He also made clear that American troops would remain in the country well beyond the July 2011 date set by the administration to begin a withdrawal.

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

After detailed examination of the UK coalition budget measures, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the country faces the “longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services spending at least since World War II”. It is the first time that a British government has proposed six consecutive years of spending cuts.

Blues Budget batters public

Roger Bagley | 22-06-2010 22:19 | Other Press | Sheffield

Dangerous Tory axeman George Osborne went on the rampage against Britain's workers on Tuesday.

Saville Inquiry continues cover-up of Bloody Sunday massacre

The Saville Report into Bloody Sunday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on January 30, 1972, maintains the cover-up of one of the most infamous massacres ever perpetrated by British imperialism.

Even after the passage of 38 years, the truth—that the murder of 14 unarmed civil rights protesters was carried out under orders from the Conservative government of Edward Heath and the army top brass—is denied.

Street View snooping sparks new watchdog site

John Oates | 16-06-2010 22:33 | Other Press | Technology | Sheffield

The row over Google's Street View network sniffing, along with European proposals to keep browsing history, has led Privacy International to set up a new website which aims to harness technical knowledge and skills to push forward debate on these issues.

Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism

CRUSHING ECONOMICS, CHEERLEADING MEDIA AND A LOFTY DISMISSAL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES

An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.

The Digital Economy - state control of the internet

AF | 16-06-2010 17:10 | Other Press | Technology | Sheffield

The digital economy act is an important step in reining in the availability of information. A pivotal moment, just like the printing press was. The question is, will we defend what we have, or will we let it slip away into the never ending pit of commoditization?

Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla

As discussed in Part 1,

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/06/453210.html media coverage of the non-violent Iranian capture of 15 British sailors (in Iranian waters) focused on the humiliating failure of the sailors to open fire in self-defence. Journalists took a very different view of the May 31 Israeli attack on the ship Mavi Marmara carrying human rights activists and supplies to the besieged population of Gaza.

Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1

The most potent propaganda relies on language loaded with hidden implications. In a recent speech, journalist Robert Fisk noted:

“When we westerners find that ‘our’ enemies - al-Qaeda, for example, or the Taliban - have set off more bombs and staged more attacks than usual, we call it ‘a spike in violence’. Ah yes, a ‘spike’!

“A ‘spike’ in violence, ladies and gentlemen is a word first used, according to my files, by a brigadier general in the Baghdad Green Zone in 2004. Yet now we use that phrase, we extemporise on it, we relay it on the air as our phrase.”
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http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/05/201052574726865274.html)

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Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

Corporate Watch | 23-04-2010 16:34 | Other Press | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .

Climategate Scientists Cleared

Climategate' Investigation Clears UK Scientists Of Most Serious Claims

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/climategate-investigation_n_519644.html
"The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review to exaggerate the threat of global warming – two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues."

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When Facts and Propaganda Collide - The BBC and Israel

When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. (BBC news online, ‘Rocket fire from Gaza kills man in southern Israel’, 23:42 GMT, Thursday, 18 March 2010)

By contrast, the killing of two Palestinian teenagers, Mohammad Qadus and Osaid Qadus, by Israeli soldiers on Saturday was buried at the end of a short news report on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Middle East visit. Even worse, the BBC’s footnote simply echoed Israeli propaganda that “no live bullets were fired, only tear gas and rubber bullets”, despite ample evidence to the contrary. (BBC news online, ‘UN chief says Gaza suffering under Israeli blockade’, 11:26 GMT, Sunday, 21 March 2010)

An anarchist book fair for Sheffield

Announcing Sheffield's first anarchist book fair.

More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan

In what is likely to be the first of many such atrocities, two US military rockets slammed into a house near Marjah, the target of the current offensive, killing 12 people. US military authorities admitted that the victims were innocent civilians sheltering in their own home, as they had been advised to do by US and NATO officials.

Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International

Just when it seemed that Republicans in America had a monopoly on Islamophobic hysteria, the Sunday Times prompted a torrent of similar hysteria in the UK by running an article in which an employee of Amnesty International — Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at the International Secretariat — criticized the organization that employed her for its association with former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg.

Fargate Speaker #12 out now

In This Issue: More rises in bus fares, discontent in the fire service, continuing look at Sheffield’s radical history, film review and more ...

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Congressional hearing reveals US intel agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.

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Abbeydale Grange School’s closure agreed by Sheffield Council

The following article is being circulated as part of an ongoing campaign by the Socialist Equality Party to oppose the Abbeydale Grange School closure.

Public Meeting: Stop Closure of Abbeydale Grange - Defend Public Education

Monday 8 February at 6.30pm

Meeting Room, Sharrow Old Junior School, South View Road, Sheffield S7 1DB

Sheffield Other Press Newswire Archive

Two infosec blunders that betrayed the Russian spy ring

Medialens: McChrystal - Death Squad Poster Boy

Petraeus signals escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

Blues Budget batters public

Saville Inquiry continues cover-up of Bloody Sunday massacre

Street View snooping sparks new watchdog site

Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism

The Digital Economy - state control of the internet

Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla

Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1

Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

Climategate Scientists Cleared

When Facts and Propaganda Collide - The BBC and Israel

An anarchist book fair for Sheffield

More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan

Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International

Fargate Speaker #12 out now

Congressional hearing reveals US intel agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

Abbeydale Grange School’s closure agreed by Sheffield Council

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