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Znet Article Cromwell: Bombing It Better

Znet Article, January, 20 2003 David Cromwell
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On January 7, 2003, Media Lens published a Media Alert: 'Moral Dark Age? Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A "Blip" In The Global Economy?'. This was in response to a New Year comment piece in The Independent by economics correspondent Hamish McRae, t...

Commentary Cromwell: Turning the World into Hell?

Commentary, November, 25 2002 David Cromwell
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Take a look at the media sections of the broadsheets, if you can handle the inane navel-gazing, insider gossip and trivia. A recurrent theme is whether television news is being 'dumbed-down' in order to hang on to fragmenting audiences. Corporate ...

Znet Article Cromwell: Moderate Extremism

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 David Cromwell
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Western state power prides itself on its 'moderation', along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and "the inalienable rights of man", as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper ("We must ac...

Znet Article Cromwell: ZNet Interviews David Cromwell

Znet Article, October, 14 2002 David Cromwell
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ZNet Interviews David Cromwell

Znet Article Cromwell: Mass Media Stoke The Fires Of War

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 David Cromwell
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News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats to launch a massive attack on that devastated ...

Commentary Cromwell: Honest And Compassionate: The Reporting Of John Pilger

Commentary, August, 26 2002 David Cromwell
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One of the guiding principles of the western liberal democracies is that the crimes of our 'enemies' must be scrupulously held up for account and condemnation, while our own crimes are ignored, minimised or cast as examples of 'humanitarian interv...

Znet Article Cromwell: Deputy Director of BBC News responds re Iraq

Znet Article, July, 08 2002 David Cromwell
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Mark Damazer, the deputy director of BBC News, has declared his support for the recent controversial BBC Correspondent documentary on Iraq (see archived media alerts). In a letter to The Guardian, Damazer defends the biased and distorted programm...

Znet Article Cromwell: Climate Of Silence

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 David Cromwell
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On May 13, 2002, Media Lens issued a media alert titled 'The Media's Stranglehold on the "Climate" Debate': We suggested that Media Lens readers contact Michael McCarthy and John Vidal - the environment editors of The Independent and The Guard...

Commentary Cromwell: Shaping The Public Good

Commentary, June, 18 2002 David Cromwell
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A popular view today - that is to say, the prevailing view held by those in positions of power and influence - is 'that contemporary Western society and more especially, the "American way of life" corresponds to the deepest needs of human nature a...

Commentary Cromwell: Regulating The University Mind

Commentary, May, 14 2002 David Cromwell
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I blame my dad. As a mature student of geography and Russian at Glasgow University, he used to take me and my wee brother Kenneth to the campus in the west end of the city, just off Byres Road in Hillhead. Gilbert Scott's Gothic creation, fulfilli...

Commentary Cromwell: The public threat to private power

Commentary, January, 14 2002 David Cromwell
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ÔThe single greatest threat to the multilateral trade system is the absence of public support.Õ Thus spoke Charlene Barshefsky, ClintonÕs U.S. trade representative, in the run-up to the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle.

Commentary Cromwell: Terror, Delusion And Obscenities

Commentary, December, 09 2001 David Cromwell
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A few weeks ago, while awaiting a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow, I encountered an alleged war criminal walking around freely. His name? Robin Cook. Yes, the former British foreign secretary, now leader of the House of Commons. Iraq, Serbia, East...

Commentary Cromwell: Gasping for the oxygen of publicity

Commentary, October, 15 2001 David Cromwell
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The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once famously declared that 'we're all green now'. Indeed, opinion polls regularly suggest that many people regard themselves as 'environmentalists'. Surely this has been a sign of the green move...

Commentary Cromwell: DEMOLISHING GLOBAL MYTHS

Commentary, July, 06 2001 David Cromwell
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David Cromwell talks to John Pilger about his forthcoming television documentary, The New Rulers of the World, which examines the real meaning of the 'global economy', including the virtually unknown and bloody history of how globalisation took ro...

Commentary Cromwell: INCREASING TRADE=CORPORATE PLUNDER

Commentary, June, 07 2001 David Cromwell
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SOUTHAMPTON, UK. The modern-day story of Southampton's docks encapsulates the ever-increasing conflict between the corporate demand for economic growth on the one hand, and environmental protection coupled with people's quality of life on the othe...

Commentary Cromwell: The resurgence of nuclear power?

Commentary, March, 26 2001 David Cromwell
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We haven't heard an awful lot about nuclear power lately. Does that mean it's a technology whose time has come and gone? Not likely. There remains the possibility that nuclear power could make a comeback through the backdoor, courtesy of the so-ca...

Commentary Cromwell: An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media

Commentary, December, 25 2000 David Cromwell
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Are you a regular newspaper reader? If so, you'll have noticed that many journalists and columnists include an email address at the bottom of their articles. They surely crave your feedback! So here's a fun experiment. Fire off an email to the com...

Commentary Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS

Commentary, December, 08 2000 David Cromwell
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The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

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