Thread. Compare BBC on Putin's visit to Mariupol, 2023, and Blair's visit to Iraq, 2003.

On Putin, 'occupied' is mentioned in the headline and in the text under the first picture; four times overall. 'Occupation' is mentioned once.
bbc.com/news/world-eur… On Blair, 2003, the BBC makes no mention of the terms 'occupied' or 'occupation', even though Iraq certainly was under illegal US-UK occupation. Beneath a photo of Blair holding a child:

'Abbas Adnan greeted Mr Blair with kisses.'
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An absolute must-listen #AlexeiSayle intervew with Richard Sanders, one of the makers of Al Jazeera's #LabourFiles.

* Takes apart how antisemitism was deployed as 'the perfect weapon' to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's chances of becoming PM.

* Keir Starmer's capitulation to the Israel lobby and shift to the right.

If you harbour any illusions about George Monbiot being a friend of the Left, you need to read this vital piece by @Jonathan_K_Cook 👇

jonathancook.substack.com/p/whenever-it-… As Media Lens can attest, George Monbiot has long been weak, if not appalling, on foreign policy issues especially.

You can search our archive of media alerts to see for yourself, including exchanges we have had with Monbiot, going back 20 years.

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Corbyn:

“I have absolutely no illusions in the Guardian, none whatsoever. My mum brought me up to read the Guardian. She said, ‘It’s a good paper you can trust’. You can’t. After their treatment of me, I do not trust the Guardian.”
declassifieduk.org/exclusive-jere… Corbyn:

"There are good people who work in the Guardian... but as a paper, it’s a tool of the British establishment. It’s a mainstream establishment paper. So, as long as everybody on the left gets it clear: when you buy the Guardian, you’re buying an establishment paper."

Brilliant clarity from Noam Chomsky:

'Energy and attention should be focused on where we can do most good. With regard to international affairs that typically means focusing on the actions of one’s own state.'

'That’s particularly true in more or less democratic societies where citizens have some role in determining outcomes. To say that actual practice fails to conform to this elementary principle would be a vast understatement.'

The type of heart-rending picture the BBC did *not* use in reporting the equally illegal 2003 US-UK invasion of Iraq. Not even when 70% of the buildings in the third city, Fallujah, were being demolished in 2004. medialens.org/2010/beyond-hi… On November 30, 2004, the UN’s Integrated Regional Information Network reported on Fallujah, Iraq:

‘Approximately 70 percent of the houses and shops were destroyed in the city and those still standing are riddled with bullets.’ (irinnews.org)

Noam Chomsky on the Ukraine war:

‘The most crucial [fact] is that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a major war crime, ranking alongside the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the Hitler-Stalin invasion of Poland in 1939, to take only two salient examples.’

zcomm.org/znetarticle/us… ‘In brief, the crisis has been brewing for 25 years as the U.S. contemptuously rejected Russian security concerns, in particular their clear red lines: Georgia and especially Ukraine.’

The Guardian has a ‘complete visual guide’ to #UkraineRussiaCrisis that is...incomplete.

Missing:
* US helped overthrow Ukraine’s elected president in 2014
* Role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s politics and military
* US funded $2.5 billion of arms to Ukraine

dumptheguardian.com/world/2022/feb… 'In nearly every case we looked at, the reports omitted the US’s extensive role in the 2014 coup that preceded Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Focusing on the latter part only serves to manufacture consent for US intervention abroad.'

@FAIRmediawatch

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Compare and contrast Noam Chomsky's articulate, insightful commentary on the world with the propaganda version broadcast every day by @BBCNews and the rest of the 'mainstream' news media.

newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/… The state of the UK. What a club to belong to:

'Chomsky described Trump as the figurehead of a new “reactionary international” consisting of Brazil, India, the UK, Egypt, Israel and Hungary.'

BBC News appears to have quietly erased Boris Johnson’s appalling boast of the UK’s 'apparent success' against coronavirus.

Likely death toll is over 40,000. To speak of 'success' is an abomination.

BBC News is supposed to serve the public; not protect the Tory government. Here's is Laura Kuenssberg's 'impartial' commentary on Boris Johnson's speech yesterday.

Performing the role expected of her, she draws a veil over Johnson's deeply insulting claim of 'apparent success'.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…