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When a senior UN climate official warns that the world is 'heading for a heart attack' (The Times, September 23, 2013), there…
David Cromwell
David Cromwell studied natural philosophy and astronomy and did a PhD in solar physics. He worked for a spell with Shell in the Netherlands and afterwards took up a research position in oceanography in Southampton. He left that in 2010 to work full-time on Media Lens where he is an editor. He is the author of Why Are We The Good Guys? (Zero Books, 2012); co-author, with David Edwards, of two Media Lens books: Guardians of Power (Pluto Books, 2006) and Newspeak In the 21st Century (Pluto Books, 2009); author of Private Planet (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001); and co-editor, with Mark Levene, of Surviving Climate Change (Pluto Books, 2007).
In a 2010 alert, 'Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe', we noted the almost non-existent media response to the…
Reports of Washington's anger directed at surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate a basic truth about power. Noam Chomsky has expressed it as…
Sometimes we get so sick of the phrase 'history in the making' that the brain tends to switch off. What is it…
The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25…
The systematic propaganda of the corporate media – its deep-rooted antipathy towards upholding proper journalistic standards in the public interest – extends…
It is a prerequisite for corporate journalists that they respect the ideological conventions of their paymasters and of state power – a…
A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, 'Chasing Ice', depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic.…
A crucial element of pro-Israel political lobbying is the reprehensible smearing of justified criticism of the Israeli state as 'antisemitic'. Thus, a…
One measure of a society's honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased…