The Independent has documented some of the discrepancies between the news written up by the Lincoln Group and reality.
“The Iraqis did not know who was writing the stories and the US troops did not know who the Iraqis were,” said the former employee, who declined to be named. It is not known whether the stories [...]
Continue Reading March 31st, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Another media watchdog goes to the dogs. Sami al Hajj was kidnapped while on assignment and subjected to the most egregious abuse imaginable before being flown to Guantanamo. The next three years were spent under intense pressure make him admit to some sort of “relationship between Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda.” Reporters without Borders however, [...]
Continue Reading February 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Another message from the Iraqi resistance … or disinformation. Who knows. I don’t know much about the age or origin of this clip other than that it was released on several political BitTorrent trackers recently. Very compelling and invigorating words nevertheless, presented in a very concise and compact format. But it is almost too good [...]
Continue Reading February 6th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Some may be shocked to learn what the government lackeys and apologists for empire of the mainstream, corporate media chose to NOT report this past year.
Project Censored via Fairfieldweekly - Just four days before the 2004 presidential election, a prestigious British medical journal published the results of a rigorous study by Dr. Les Roberts, a [...]
Continue Reading November 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Medialens shines a light on Emma Brockes and her interview with Noam Chomsky published in the Guardian.
On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, ‘The greatest intellectual?’ (The Guardian, October 31, 2005; link)
The article was ostensibly in response to the fact that Chomsky had been voted the world’s top [...]
Continue Reading November 5th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Remember that student, Joel Henry Hinrichs, who killed himself with a homemade bomb? Remember the allegations that were flying around at the time? Remember how all of those turned out to be wrong? I guess some people are trying not to. That is why articles like this are so important, lest the right wing lynch [...]
Continue Reading October 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
As a follow-up to the story about gory and demeaning pictures (”Blood and guts for porn”) of war and occupation being posted on Nowthatsfuckedup.com … the US military command is now on the case. It only took them a month to get up to speed with the blogosphere.
BBC - Allegations that US soldiers posted photographs [...]
Continue Reading September 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Kurt Nimmo of Another Day in the Empire raises important questions regarding the fallout from Operation Gladio in terms of active assets and the use of such tactics today.
Abdullah Azzam’s name rings a bell. A Palestinian university professor and member of the CIA-penetrated Muslim Brotherhood, Azzam set up the Services Office (Maktab al-Khadamat) a CIA- [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
According to the Agonist, this played out something like this.
On July 12 - The day it was announced that the July 7 London bombs had been placed by young British muslims from West Yorkshire - Guardian trainee Dilpazier Aslam was asked to write a piece for the comment page, published the following day as “We [...]
Continue Reading July 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Australian refers to it as Blog pundits claim CNN scalp, NBR sees it as a New media swarm takes down old media CNN news boss. Eason Jordan chose to step down after a storm of mostly online pundits raving over his alleged statement. I.e. that the US military deliberately targeted and targets reporters in [...]
Continue Reading February 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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