September 2011
2 posts
Hackgate: A Triumph for the Liberal Media? →
David Cromwell & David Edwards:
The “ownership of the British media” has always been a red herring. The problem is not that the media is owned by this or that corporate power, but that it is corporate power.
Britain, Qadafi and the Libyan Islamic Fighting... →
Mark Curtis:
While Bin Laden was drafting his declaration of jihad in early 1996, British intelligence was plotting with al-Qaida-associated terrorists in Libya to assassinate Colonel Qadafi. Qadafi had long challenged British interests and Western hegemony in the Middle East and Africa. The revolution that brought him to power in September 1969, recognised as ‘popular’ by British planners,...