On May 29, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in which the association denounced that Globovisión, a “privately-owned news channel” was “being hounded by the government and the administration.”  According to the Paris-based organization, Globovisión “has been targeted by official proceedings that... » read this article

Lenin's Red State Tomb Lenin, the proprietor of the well visited British Lenin's Tomb blog, sometimes has some useful leftist thoughts and activism posts. He is on my blogroll for that reason. Lenin's real name, advertised at his own side, is Richard Seymour. He wrote a book: Following the collapse of the... » read this article

15 June 2009 The response of the US media to the Iranian election says more about the state of democracy and the so-called “free press” in America than it does about the state of democratic rights in Iran. The coverage by the New York Times typifies a presentation of the... » read this article

The Special Law on Subscription Television is now before the Venezuelan National Assembly. Its contents will be debated by the national deputies and could be on the statute book by the end of July 2009. They'll be like salivating dogs gathered around a juicy bone when the western media gets wind of the new Cable TV law... » read this article

The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary. "Hank Paulson is a national hero. I said it last October and I'm sticking by it. And now, there's actual evidence to back me up. The TARP bailout worked. The Wall... » read this article

Update - Workers vote down NYT/Globe's "offer" to a 23% paycut and other benefit reductions. NYT moves to sell the Boston Globe. Scroll to the bottom of this article for the Boston Globe report. - LMB The Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times. Last month, the NYT threatened... » read this article

News has emerged for the National Assembly that a discussion paper has been presented to control the content of cable TV channels in Venezuela. This is precisely what was suggested in “Globovision digging its own grave in Venezuela”, published on Axis of Logic on May 22. It looks like the... » read this article

27 May 2009 The US media’s reaction to last week’s extraordinary back-to-back speeches by President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney has been one of political complacency and deliberate cover-up in the face of a profound threat to basic democratic rights exposed in the two men’s remarks. The... » read this article

May 20, 2009 In their classic 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated how corporate media select topics, place emphasis, set boundaries, ask questions and shape content in accordance with broad capitalist imperatives. It’s a largely unconscious process driven by conformist human beings, and infinitely more effective... » read this article

This is really interesting news! Ziad al Humsi was arrested today by the Lebanese army intelligence forces for spying for Israel.  Mr. al Humsi is a member of the Future Movement (headed by Saad al Hariri...);  he heads the Future Movement's election headquarters in the Bekaa of Lebanon, is mayor of... » read this article

May 6, 2009 Boston Globe shutdown averted for now WSWS Unions signal readiness to accept massive concessions The New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe, announced Monday that it was tentatively withdrawing its threat to shut down the newspaper. While tentative deals have been reached with six of... » read this article

In her article headed “Making sense of Chavez” (April 27), Debbie Jacob wrote that it was easy to dismiss Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a “raving lunatic.” She also said “don’t ever count on Chavez giving up,” and continued by painting a picture that Chavez will do anything to stay... » read this article

Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh is a prominent Iranian scholar of foreign policy and international relations. Alongside Prof. Hamid Mowlana, he is considered to be one of Iran’s foreign policy academia giants. Despite his non-alignment to governmental organizations and his partial residence in London, where he chairs the Urosevic Research Foundation, Mojtahedzadeh... » read this article

"The Supreme Court has let stand the conviction of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal". So writes Bill Mear in his CNN report on the latest decision on Mumia's conviction, 28 years ago. We might add also that CNN has now enjoined the decision by "John Roberts and the Supremes" by reinforcing Mumia's conviction... » read this article

Editor's Note: We published two articles today that involved Guardian reporter, Rory Carroll. The first was a World News report that reflected young Rory's view of the collapse of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The second was our critique of Rory's spin on that collapse. This is an unrelated article from BoRev that nails Rory with... » read this article

Axis of Logic - Writing for the Washington Post, David Simon makes a few good points in the article below. He weaves a story about police corruption and performance in Baltimore and other U.S. cities which are not being adequately investigated. It's ironic however, that he whimpers at the loss... » read this article

FAIR Study: Human Rights Coverage Serving Washington’s Needs FAIR finds editors downplaying Colombia’s abuses, amplifying Venezuela’s Any evenhanded comparison of the Colombian and Venezuelan governments’ human rights records would have to note that, though Venezuela’s record is far from perfect, that country is by every measure a safer place than... » read this article

While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don’t bother to challenge them. (Watch... » read this article

London Unites for Palestine and Against the BBC 24th January 2009 National Demonstration Speeches and footage of protest held on January 24 at BBC Broadcasting House The protest called on the BBC to reverse its decision to refuse to broadcast an appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee The march... » read this article

24 January 2009 The inaugural address delivered by Barack Obama Tuesday has elicited a torrent of commentary, in the US and around the world. Some of the most deluded and dishonest comments issue from the pages of the New York Times, the "newspaper of record" and voice of American liberalism.... » read this article