4th February 2017 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire “We see a lot of devastation. When you see a young child (Omran) who is obviously in shock sitting in the back of an ambulance, you are concerned with how he is, what happened to him and what situation has brought him there. The ability of the…
Merger minds, ticket schemes and magazine time + this day in history w/Iran options and our song of the day by London Grammar on your Morning Monarchy for February 3, 2017.
Obama: The Sham Environmentalist
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
26 January 2017
What grade does President Obama deserve for his environmental policies? According to the BBC the Obama Administration should be awarded an “A-” for negotiating the 2016 Paris climate agreement, introducing new regulations governing pollution from US power plants and designating 548 million acres of US territory as protected areas.
Back on 15th January 2017 I wrote a piece for The Duran in which I contrasted the detailed on the spot reporting of Turkish journalist Fehim Taştekin in eastern Aleppo with the failure of western journalists to visit or report from Aleppo notwithstanding that following the end of the fighting there the city is finally safe for journalists to visit.
When I wrote that piece I was unaware that the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen was actually in Aleppo as I was writing it.
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 21.01.2017 Britain’s divisive Brexit politics are playing out through the new US presidency of Donald Trump. It seems that a faction within the British political establishment which is opposed to Britain leaving the European Union has joined forces with American intelligence counterparts to hamper Trump’s new administration. […]
Laura Kuenssberg © ZUMAPRESS.com / Global Look Press RT | January 18, 2017 Award winning BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been reprimanded by the BBC Trust for inaccurately reporting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s views on shoot-to-kill policies in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. The Trust concluded that Kuenssberg breached the BBC’s impartiality and […]
RT | January 17, 2017 The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme has aired an edition on the alleged financial ties between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. It also reports on whether Russia played a key role in Trump’s election success. Making its assumptions very clear, the BBC called the programme ‘The ‘Kremlin Candidate’. […]
Glenn Greenwald goes on the BBC to tear apart the “fake news” Trump dossier.
The BBC is a bit hurt at Greenwald’s implication that the “CIA lies”.
Greenwald had to lay it out in simple terms for the BBC host to understand…
“You know of course (don’t you) that the Iraq war was started because that agency [CIA] said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in an alliance with Al Qaeda.”
The CIA, Trump and Unverified News By Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice | January 13, 2017 London — Morning breakfast news on the BBC’s Radio Four on Friday was a delightful affair filled with discussions on Russia (when do we not talk about that busy, stirring Bear these days?), Donald Trump, dossiers and the intelligence […]
