9 June 2012 - Telegraph Headline Labels Untried Guantanamo Detainees as 'World's Most Dangerous Terrorists'
6 June 2012 - Deceptive Headline: WMD Accusations about Iran in the Telegraph

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Nuclear State: Media not Concerned about UK Weapons Development
The Editors, 18 June 2012

Over the last 7 months, UK journalists have consistently voiced their objection to nuclear weapons proliferation. This opposition appears as the western media holds a magnifying glass to Iran and speculation abounds over Iran's nuclear capabilities; speculation that appears to be more in line with western governments' policy rather than with...

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How the Media Fails to Highlight the Illegality of US Drone Strikes
Josh Watts, 14 June 2012

Under the Obama administration, the frequency of US drone strikes - what Professors Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann have termed 'Washington's Phantom War' - have increased dramatically.1 Indeed, President Barrack Obama's 'speciality', John Pilger observes, 'is the use of drones armed with Hellfire missiles against defenceless people'. Confirming this assertion,...

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Nick Cohen's Deceptive Portrayal of Western Intentions in Call for Intervention in Syria
Steve Nutt, 13 June 2012

Nick Cohen, writing in the Observer on 10 June, demands that the 'guilt ridden' leaders of the Liberal West shake off the hangover of the Bush-Blair years and press reset, a reset on the facade of Barack Obama's mission to forge dialogue with Iran, with Russia, to offer a hand instead...

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Forgetting Complicity: Immediate Coverage of a Dictator's Life Sentence
Josh Watts, 11 June 2012

In both the UK and the US, it is overwhelmingly the case that the mainstream media present the actions of their respective governments as benign and devoid of self interest. Consequently, any actions which may on the surface appear aggressive are interpreted as defensive or undertaken in good faith, in the...

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Justifying Targeted Assassinations: the BBC on the Effectiveness of Drone Strikes
The Editors, 7 June 2012

In support of the ongoing policy of US drone strikes in Pakistan, US defence secretary Leon Panetta stated that "This [policy] is about our sovereignty as well". His comment came in response to claims by Pakistan that their sovereignty is at risk as a result of the drone attacks. Despite the...

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Iran: Speculation on Parchin Site Propagates through Guardian Reporting
The Editors, 5 June 2012

On the issue of the ongoing 'Iran Crisis' (in BBC speak), the evidence presented to us about the potential development of nuclear weapons by Iran remains heavily based on speculation, and has in recent months focussed on the hypothetical musings of a Washington think-tank, based on satellite images of an Iranian...

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