A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James […]
Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse See the full-length documentary film of the 15-month investigation – By Mona Mahmood, Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith, The Guardian The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres […]
- By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The Huffington Post Abridged from The Cutting Edge As a participant in the BBC Newsnight special, ‘Iraq – 10 Years On‘, I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues. Newsnight presented some deeply questionable narratives of the war and its aftermath as ‘fact’; and systematically […]
- By Norman Finkelstein It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat. One only had to watch the international news coverage. BBC persisted in its typically awful reportage on the Israel-Palestine conflict during Israel’s latest rampage. But tonight it had to acknowledge that the people of […]
- By Paul Wood, BBC People fleeing the Syrian city of Homs have accused the security forces of committing atrocities, including summary executions and cutting the throats of prisoners. Troops and paramilitaries took full control of the Baba Amr quarter of Homs over the weekend after a month of bombardment. Opposition activists say some 4,000 […]
BBC rewrites 10 years of history and declares Pakistan the new enemy. By Tony Cartalucci December 4, 2011 - BBC are propagandists whose lies have killed people. Their documentaries are made upon request by special interest groups whose narratives are sewn verbatim into what would otherwise look like a “documentary.” With BBC’s name attached, it is […]
Arundhati Roy talks to Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight about her new book, ‘Broken Republic,’ a collection of essays on the reality of India’s economic “success”, and the plight of its poor and marginalised population. Here is another interview of her on the same topic with Jenni Murray of BBC Radio 4:
