Jonathan Cook argues, using Western state-sponsored deception over the use of chemical weapons in Syria as example, that the Western mainstream media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East. Read more [...]
Stuart Littlewood reports on Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki’s eloquent representation of the Palestinians’ “historic compromise” with Israel and how the BBC website’s Middle East Editor Raffi Berg tried to steer the discussion in a pro-Israel direction. Read more [...]