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John Pilger: War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda #LoganCIJ14

Following is John Pilger’s address to the Logan Symposium, “Building an Alliance Against Secrecy, Surveillance & Censorship”, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London, on 5th December, 2014

http://logancij.com/

Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog

Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.

UG#697 - The Estimable Russ Baker (Boston Bombings and the Family of Secrets)

Unusually, we spend both hours on a single speaker, more unusually still, one who is new to this show as a main speaker. Some of Russ Baker's research is however familiar to use via Mark Gorton's Fifty Years of the Deep State. The first 30 minutes is a May 2014 interview about the Boston bombings, the remainder of the show is a 2009 interview by Bonnie Faulkner which centers on his book, "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years."

Yorkshire Ripper farce - new fake TV documentary

Ever since the fabrication of The Peter Sutcliffe Myth, the mainstream media have kept repeating the police version of events. The truth rarely gets a look in.

UG#695 - Funding The Deep State Off-The-Books (Media Silence on Drugs for Guns)

Two speakers help us examine the off-the-books funding which has routinely funded CIA operations since its inception. We begin with a recording by Emile De Antonio from the classic show of US dissident thought Alternative Views, centered on George H W Bush, but which reviews the history of state assisted drug trafficking and encompasses a bunch of other key deep state operatives. Next it is journalist Craig Unger on his response to Sep 11th, and we conclude with Peter Dale Scott on the early history of the CIA and its related TLAs. He opines that the seized Nazi assets formed the base of a black budget which has always been available for funding off-the-books deep state operations.

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

On Friday 6th October 2014 Cory Doctorow addressed a packed meeting organised by the Open Rights Group Sheffield

https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/ in the Quaker Meeting House, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free.

Scottish vote and promise of more decision-making powers for England?

This is a fake debate. There is an elephant in the room which most people are ignoring.

UG#690 - Paying to Cut, Paying Not to Cut (Unbearable Costs of Financialization)

Why is paying people to cut down trees like paying them not to cut down trees? Well, do these two apparent opposites actually result in opposite outcomes...? Or do they both, by equating trees with money, turn them into resources, and so effectively put them under the control of rich foreigners, with predictable consequences. In our first hour, Jeff Conant explores "REDD", the World Bank's forest protection racket for the global south. In our second hour, Max Haiven looks at the extreme and ongoing financialization of the "developed" world, resulting in a damage to society and personal identities that while difficult to quantify is nevertheless all too real. He recommends we "rededicate ourselves to moving beyond individualism and this idea that we are all competitive agents by actively building grassroots concrete effort to reclaim the commons by actively building grassroots efforts in the here and now.

UG#689 - A Tale Of Two Worlds (Bridges in Myanmar, The Real 911 Suspects)

A stark contrast of material for you this week. We begin with an uplifting reading of Toni "El Suizo" Rüttimann giving the flavour of his latest expedition to Myanmar, in which he built half a dozen bridges of up to 100m in length in a 12 day period. Most of the show is a detailed exposition of old world malfeasance - Kevin Ryan on who he suspects committed the terrorism of Sep 11th - Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and a bunch of lesser known names, some of whom have been quite successful in evading the limelight, but all of whom appear to be covert operatives for the Deep State.

Can you feel the Class War all around you?

Yes we are Working Class, yes we live and were brought up on council estates where the Ruling Class think we can be divided and forgotten about. Forced in to Unemployment when it suits them, hidden from view when it suits some of their Institutions...

Audio: Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Workshops 2014

Attached are audio recordings from some of the sessions at the 2014 Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair which was held in the Showroom on Saturday 12th July 2014.

UG#686 - The US Deep State, 1981-2001 (The Enterprise, Alec Station,9/11 Set-up)

We continue where we left off last time, reading from Mark Gorton's unparalleled denunciation of the criminal enterprise at work in USA, Fifty Years of the Deep State. We conclude the first hour by briefly reflecting on Noam Chomsky's opinions on 9/11. In our second hour, we hear a talk by Peter Dale Scott at the 10th anniversary hearings on the 9/11 event, in which he examines the conduct of the US government agencies tasked with protecting the country from terrorist attacks.

UG#685 - The US Deep State, 1963-1981 (Coup of 63, The Cabal, Watergate Coup...)

This week, I read the first half of one of the most remarkable essays I have ever come across on the subject of Deep Politics. In our first hour, we read Mark Gorton's compelling Fifty Years of the Deep State which traces a secret thread from the assassination of JFK, through the assassinations of RFK & MLK to Watergate, Ford, Carter and up to the Iran hostages affair. Our first hour concludes with Peter Dale Scott speaking on the US "overworld". In our second hour, a deconstruction of the Ford presidency and the Watergate coup from the inimitable Webster Tarpley.

UG#683 - The Standardization of Mind & Body (DSM-5, Disabilities & Fruit Trees)

Last time we looked at how mass communication technologies were shaped into the propaganda tool that big media is today. This time, a look at how the medical profession has responded to similar systemic pressures, gradually refining technologies and public expectations about physical and mental health so as to buttress the status quo. After Jess Martin's talk on 'disability' we hear Gary Greenberg on the DSM-5. We conclude with an alternative perspective from Tony Wright - that modern society, far from being a healthy norm from which any deviation is suspect, is itself a deeply dysfunctional result of millennia long changes in human brain biochemistry.

UG#682 - The Commercially Controlled Media (Shadows Of Liberty)

This week, a look at the CCM, how the corporate media is commercially controlled - how large money successfully shapes its output. We adapt Jean-Phillipe Lemay's Shadows of Liberty, followed by an excerpted speech by Jeremy Scahill on war crimes carried out by the US but unreported in USA by the large media corporations.

UG#679 - The New Pearl Harbor 3 (The Exploding Towers)

We conclude Massimo Mazzucco's film, The New Pearl Harbor, looking this time at the remarkable circumstances surrounding the instantaneous freefall collapse of 3 steel framed skyscrapers (the first such collapses in history, happening largely in freefall as even NIST was forced eventually to admit).

UG#677 - The New Pearl Harbor 1 (Air Defence, Hijackers & Aircraft)

This week, a radio adaptation of part 1 of a new video by Massimo Mazzucco. Short on conjecture and theorizing, long on salient facts, The New Pearl Harbor is the best and most up to date general 9/11 video I have yet come across. This first part focuses on the shortcomings of the official conspiracy narrative in the areas of the US air defense, the '19 hijackers' and the airplanes themselves.

UG#673 - The Language of The Vast Machine (The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies)

Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

#670 - Thinking Clearly About The Vast Machine (& The Hopelessness It Produces)

This episode looks at one aspect of the machine referred to by Graeber in episode 624 - the propaganda that is churned out and which prevents people from clearly facing their dilemma. We begin with a 2009 speech by Sut Jhally on advertising, consumerism and what this has done to the US population. After contributions from Chris Hedges and Robert Jensen, we finish with an optimistic vision by Nafeez Ahmed.

UG#665 - Living In An Age Of Political Paralysis (The World According To Hedges)

What to do amidst a vast apparatus designed, as Graeber wrote in episode 624, to "perpetuate hopelessness"? Chris Hedges recommends a path of courageous and unflinching non-violent resistance to the US plutocrats. We hear a 90 minute interview from earlier this week, interspersed with half of a classic Hedges speech, "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning".

Sheffield Analysis Newswire Archive

John Pilger: War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda #LoganCIJ14

Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog

UG#697 - The Estimable Russ Baker (Boston Bombings and the Family of Secrets)

Yorkshire Ripper farce - new fake TV documentary

UG#695 - Funding The Deep State Off-The-Books (Media Silence on Drugs for Guns)

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

Scottish vote and promise of more decision-making powers for England?

UG#690 - Paying to Cut, Paying Not to Cut (Unbearable Costs of Financialization)

UG#689 - A Tale Of Two Worlds (Bridges in Myanmar, The Real 911 Suspects)

Can you feel the Class War all around you?

Audio: Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Workshops 2014

UG#686 - The US Deep State, 1981-2001 (The Enterprise, Alec Station,9/11 Set-up)

UG#685 - The US Deep State, 1963-1981 (Coup of 63, The Cabal, Watergate Coup...)

UG#683 - The Standardization of Mind & Body (DSM-5, Disabilities & Fruit Trees)

UG#682 - The Commercially Controlled Media (Shadows Of Liberty)

UG#679 - The New Pearl Harbor 3 (The Exploding Towers)

UG#677 - The New Pearl Harbor 1 (Air Defence, Hijackers & Aircraft)

UG#673 - The Language of The Vast Machine (The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies)

#670 - Thinking Clearly About The Vast Machine (& The Hopelessness It Produces)

UG#665 - Living In An Age Of Political Paralysis (The World According To Hedges)

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