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Edwards: National Journal Smears Lancet
Jan 27, 2008
Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin's now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States, used the film to heap scorn on the scientific consensus that climate change is a grave and rapidly evolving threat. In the event, the film itself turned out to be a swindle, one denounced by climate scientists far and wide - its media supporters quietly moved on.
Edwards: A Different Kind Of Compassion
Jan 13, 2008
If "The wages of sin is death", the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his salary as prime minister was £186,429 a year, it now takes him two high-profile speeches to earn the same amount. Analysts estimate that he could earn £3m simply by speaking 50 nights a year. Blair will also supplement his income as an adviser to international investment bank JP Morgan - a job that could net him £500,000 a year. This is all in addition to the £4.5m he is being paid for his memoirs.
Engler: Tar Sands
Nov 14, 2007
Tar Sands
Engler: Canadian Foreign Policy and Iran
Sep 27, 2007
It appears that the US is planning an attack against Iran and Ottawa is pitching in to help.
Engler: Haiti, Capital And The Responsibility To Protect
Sep 02, 2007
Why did Canada help overthrow Haiti's elected government in 2004? That's a question I heard over and over when speaking about Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority, a book Anthony Fenton and I co-wrote. Most people had difficulty understanding
Engler: Imperialism and the Bully's Coat
Jul 13, 2007
Linda McQuaig's new book, Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the US Empire, is far better than most on the subject of Canadian foreign policy. Unfortunately, that is damning with faint praise indeed.
Edwards: BBC
Feb 15, 2007
General Mann: "That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities."
Edwards: MEDIA ALERT
Jan 20, 2007
Voluntary Subjection Cannot Be Forced
Edwards: MEDIA ALERT
Jan 14, 2007
On December 24, the Independent on Sunday's front page featured a portrait of a British soldier gazing pensively into the distance. A banner headline filled the page: "An 'IoS' Christmas special with the troops - Letters home from the front, pages 8-15."
Edwards: Exchange
Oct 22, 2006
On September 28, we wrote to Martin Bright, the political editor of the New Statesman:
Edwards: Climate Change
Sep 19, 2006
On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We were looking at the homepage of the Independent website - a newspaper that has made huge efforts to present itself as a radical campaig
Ehrenreich: The High Cost of Being Poor
Aug 18, 2006
There are people, concentrated in the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, who still confuse poverty with the simple life. No cable TV, no altercations with the maid, no summer home maintenance issues -- just the basics like family, sunsets and walks in the park.
Edwards: Ridiculing Chavez
Jun 01, 2006
In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as an extreme, absurd and threatening figure. In essence, the public has been urged to consider Chavez beyond the pale of respectable
Edwards: Ridiculing Chavez
May 21, 2006
Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know - it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous.
Edwards: Channel 4 Smears
Apr 18, 2006
On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: 'Hugo to go?' (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046)
Edwards: Beyond the Blog
Jan 27, 2006
In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk's observation that "more and more people are trying to find a different and more accurate narrative of events in the Middle East. It is a tribute to their intelligence that instead of searching for blog-o-bo
Edwards: MEDIA ALERT
Jan 26, 2006
Robert Fisk On The British Media - Part 1
Edwards: Tehran
Oct 31, 2005
The Roman historian Tacitus observed: "Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity."
Edwards: Media 'Errors'
Oct 02, 2005
Writing on the BBC's website last month, World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds observed that George Bush was struggling to turn Iraq into a stable country before his term ends in January 2009:
May 09, 2008
Canadian foreign aid has been widely derided as ineffective. But that's simply not true. Commentators have just been looking in the wrong places. Canadian aid has been highly effective at transforming taxes into profits for major Canadian corporations. And it's also played a significant role in keeping the world safe for the U.S. led corporate oligarchy.