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“It was in the springtime of his premiership that he became a pioneer for a foreign policy which did not see championing…
In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as…
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An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: “The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast.” In the same…
On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ‘Hugo to go?’ (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046) Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan…
Noam Chomsky once observed: “If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you’re doing something wrong.”(http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that…
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