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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Spooks and feudalism: Greenwald savages Britain's secretive, archaic state

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Consider these two 'home' truths:   The British state is a deeply secretive, anti-democratic entity, with GCHQ and its associate ...
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Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Stone Cold Justice - Australian TV reveal Israel's brutal abuse of Palestinian children

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A remarkable, courageous film from Australian ABC TV's Four Corners programme has helped expose the systematic detention, traumatic inte...
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Monday, 10 February 2014

Killing, abuse and denial - the West's Olympian-sized record

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How eagerly our media adopt the term 'human rights record' to highlight the villainy of other countries, while safely avoiding that ...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

The admirable George Galloway, mistaken, alas, on independence

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I once recall a kindly acquaintance telling me during the course of a discussion, "you're not wrong, just mistaken." It wasn...
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Monday, 27 January 2014

False foundation of Blair's 'religious' convictions

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And so, 'Vicar Blair' has delivered another homily from his 'pulpit' at the Guardian/Observer , beseeching us to see the tr...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

The Gatekeepers - a 'confessional' film still evading the truth

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The Gatekeepers , a film by Israeli director Dror Moreh, provides some fascinating insights into the dark working of Israel's internal i...
Monday, 6 January 2014

PJ Harvey's Today edit - what's in it for the BBC?

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PJ Harvey's guest editorship of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on 2 January provided a energising New Year antidote to what relentless...
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