The fact is that they are deceitful with no wish to deceive, not like Machiavellians, but with no consciousness of their deceit,…
“This war is un-American”, writes Jonathan Freedland of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Guardian. America, after all, “still sees itself as the…
Man Plus It’s Cartoon Time on ITN’s Evening News. From a computer-generated street in Baghdad, a radiating signal from US ‘special forces’…
On April 9, a US tank recovery vehicle tightened a metal rope and a statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down in…
In researching our latest New Statesman article (April 7, 2003), David Edwards interviewed George Entwistle (March 31, 2003), editor of the BBC’s…
“Isn’t it in fact true that America, by dint of the very accuracy of the weapons we’ve seen, is the only potential…
Niche Killing It’s hard to believe that a little more than one week ago, the Iraqi regime, facing imminent attack, was meekly…
“Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I…
“The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies…
The word that keeps tumbling out of the mouths of journalists – often, we suspect, to their horror – is the adjective…
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