This is taken from the Transfom blog
http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/02/minijstry-of-defense-propaganda-and.html
It’s a really interesting piece which reveals the way in which the authorities are willing to massage statistics in order to justify the continuation of the failed war on terror….
‘The media today is full of reports about a massive military operation in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, codenamed DIESEL. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The UK military’s latest propaganda bomb in the war on terror
Posted in activism, media, war, tagged afghanistan, drugs, heroin, military, propaganda, UK, UK government, war on terror on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Analysing Media Coverage of the Wildcat Strikes
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, media activism, tagged bbc, indymedia, jobs, Lindsey Oil Refinery, strikes, wildcat, workers on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While the mainstream media has mainly presented the current wildcat strikes in the UK as a nationalist phenomena, concentrating on the slogan ‘British jobs for British workers,’ they have seemed to largely ignore what the workers themselves have been saying.
For example one of the Lindsey Oil Strike refinery unofficial elected strike committee leaders wrote on [...]
