25 April 2012 - BBC Headline Change: Iran Goes from 'not building' to 'undecided on' Nuclear Bomb
25 April 2012 - BBC Deception Continues about November's IAEA Report

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Afghanistan: Maintaining the Facade of the 'Mission'
Steve Nutt, 20 April 2012

In light of recent predictable events in Afghanistan, it is worth taking a long view of the NATO invasion and occupation to see if we can garner some sense of what the "mission" actually entails. The usual rhetoric concerns two related central matters: that NATO's presence is intended to prevent Afghanistan...

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Syria Intervention: Endorsement Masquerading as News in the Guardian
Steve Nutt, 13 April 2012

Media advocacy masquerading as news has a considerable precedent. Whether it be journalists looking for some 'sick action' in Somalia that might 'restore hope [...] in the capacity for governments taking a moral stance', or to provide western audiences with some much needed post-Cold War meaning in the flagrant PR exercise...

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Downplaying the Arms Trade: BBC Complicity
The Editors, 13 April 2012

David Cameron recently 'packed a plane full of business people' (in his own words) on a trip to Indonesia. Reporting on his 'trade tour of East and South East Asia', the news celebrated the securing of a '£326m Airbus Deal'. In a BBC report, it was pointed out that 'representatives from...

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