- Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2003
'Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror' was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The film dissects the truth and lies behind the 'War on Terror', investigating the discrepancies between American and British justification for 'war' and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
- The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism, & The Gulf War
Resource Type: Book
The Gulf Within documents the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians during the Gulf War. It's about the subtle and not-so-subtle anger and distrust other Canadians and institutions demonstrated towards these groups.
- The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in Iraq
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The Guardian and its journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
- The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
- Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
- In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Killing America's Kids
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
- Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
- On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- The real first casualty of war
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
- Sole offender?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
When an Iraqi journalist throws his shoe at the commander-in-chief of the forces that invaded and continue to occupy his country, the Globe huffily calls the reporter a disgrace to his profession and says he should be fired.
- Syria, Iraq, Egypt most deadly nations for journalists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The conflict in Syria, a spike in Iraqi bloodshed, and political violence in Egypt accounted for the high number of journalists killed on the job in 2013.
- Thinking The Right Thoughts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
- 2013: Another Year Of Slaughter In Iraq Claims The Lives Of At Least 21 Media Professionals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In Iraq , at least 404 media professionals have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, among them 374 Iraqis, according to The B Russell Tribunal statistics. The impunity in Iraq is far worse than anywhere else in the world.
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
- Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.
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