http://www.thecommentfactory.com Join And Start Writing Today! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.thecommentfactory.com/media-distortions-and-real-climate-change-scandals-2715/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/media-distortions-and-real-climate-change-scandals-2715/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:18:15 +0000 David Edwards http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=2715

The U.S. media is structurally biased and normal people have to start thinking outside the box for real change to happen The media in the U.S. set a narrow range of political debate, which makes real change impossible. Obama rode on this media wave and he must be criticized by the...

No, You Owe Us Money!: The logic behind climate debt A novel political narrative is emerging at the COP15 in Copenhagen. It’s the idea that the rich, industrialized countries owe the developing world a “climate debt.” Right now, according Actionaid...

Sibel Edmonds and the U.S. media Sibel Edmonds revelations of criminality at the highest echelons of the U.S. political establishment have been covered in the British press. Why does the media in the U.S. continue to...

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Hired Hands: Obama, Gaza, and MPs expenses We do not live in a totalitarian society - the public potentially has enormous power to interfere. The goal, then, is to persuade the public that corporate-sponsored political choice is...

Obama’s hands will be tied The soft-left Obama honeymoon will last only weeks because the financial crisis will make it impossible to push through any equalizing measures. The only way serious change can be forced...

Hamas will not stop fighting until this obscene Israeli blockade is lifted Hamas say they will not surrender until the blockade of Gaza is lifted. The Israelis should do this immediately or they have no legitimate defense. ...

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Hired Hands — Part 2 George Monbiot got it right: mainstream journalists, quite simply, are “hired hands defending a corporate or institutional position”....

Obama, Gaza, and Israel: Definitely not change Obama has lined up behind the assault on Gaza, and this is certainly not a change we can believe in....

Obama’s hands will be tied The soft-left Obama honeymoon will last only weeks because the financial crisis will make it impossible to push through any equalizing measures. The only way serious change can be forced...

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Interview: Sameh Habeeb, independent Palestinian journalist in Gaza, tells of the destruction and clamp down on the media Sameh Habeeb, a journalist working in Gaza City, talks to Kourosh Ziabari about the dire situation in Gaza, the levels of depravity reached by the Israeli military during the latest...

The media debate assumes Israel wants peace. It doesn’t. Israel doesn't want peace and has worked studiously to avoid it coming about. The Western media needs to realize this before it's too late. ...

Andrew Roberts, right-wing historian, on neoconservatism and the English-speaking peoples I don’t think democracy can be immediately transported to every country in the world because some countries are too feudal, theocratic, obscurantist or backward, frankly, to do anything other than...

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“Passive” death-counts in Iraq have merit A media-based count of war dead may be incomplete; a survey estimate may be erroneous due to sampling bias – such things have nothing to do with relative passivity/activity. So...

The Iraq ‘Status of Forces Agreement’ is the product of Iraqi resistance The 'Status of Forces Agreement' is surprisingly good in many respects, but this is because the Iraqi people have shown they will not stand for an enduring imperial occupation. ...

Unpublished Howard Zinn interview from 2004: On Iraq, the US empire, and the roots of change That’s a possibility. It’s only a possibility but I think whether that grassroots movement inside the Democratic Party develops or not what is most important is the development of...

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Israel-Palestine dispute engulfs York University in Canada Zachary Goelman reports on the fallout at York University from Israel's war in Gaza....

The Canadian student movement needs to get militant It would be just as mistaken to deny weaknesses within the student movement as to claim this is the central problem. Student activists have a choice: slide towards advocacy, or...

Art: ‘Love’ and ‘Hate’ Here are a couple of images I did about the G20 protests. They are collages of images from the Daily Mail's coverage of the incident, which was entitled "Love and...

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The rise of Lieberman means it’s time to withdraw aid and blockade Israel Avigdor Lieberman has positions more extreme than Hamas -- but will the US and EU be consistent and withdraw aid from Israel as he is made foreign minister?...

What did Israel achieve in its assault on Gaza? Valia Mourtzanou looks at what Israel achieved with their assault on Gaza, and is not optimistic....

Israel attacks Gaza, killing hundreds of people Leah Borromeo evaluates what's happening in the Gaza Strip as Israel attacks....

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Media distortions and “real” climate change scandals “The gap between public perception and scientific reality is now enormous. While some of the public is just becoming aware of the existence of global warming, the relevant scientists...

Unless Palestinian leaders change their tactics, Obama will be more of the same on Israel-Palestine The Palestinian leadership in the US have shown little interest in working the US political system, but if Obama is to be a change, it must happen....

Al Jazeera English descend on Ohio State University for debate Al Jazeera English, launched in Qatar in 2006, has been holding forums at U.S. campuses over the presidential debate season. Wilson reports from his university, Ohio State....

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Journalists still have way to go embracing social media Social media offers everything the authors suggest in terms of disseminating news, finding story ideas and sources, monitoring sentiments and discussions, researching individuals and organisations, and keeping up on topics...

Documentary tells story of Burma’s undercover journalists This year, a documentary film that portrays the plight of these audacious undercover journalists is in the running for an Oscar as Best Documentary Feature. Burma VJ, directed by the...

Police brutality at G20: The revenge of the citizen journalists A combination of aggressive, violent policing, and a complicit press, sees that the curtailment of civil liberties and stifling of freedom of speech goes unchecked...

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In a Canadian election dominated by the media, one newspaper goes silent With the Canadian general elections taking place on Tuesday, the media has had an unprecedented effect on the outcome. But one of the country's most respected media outlets went mute...

The U.S. media is structurally biased and normal people have to start thinking outside the box for real change to happen The media in the U.S. set a narrow range of political debate, which makes real change impossible. Obama rode on this media wave and he must be criticized by the...

Outside the White House on election night 2008 Tomas Dinges went down to the White House in Washington DC on election night 2008. Here he remembers what happened. ...

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