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Media Lens – 20 years of asking difficult questions
MATTHEW ALFORD pays tribute to the British website that has a gentle way of bringing out the unself-reflecting worst in the Establishment commentators
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ONE of the things I love about reading articles by Media Lens is how the responses they trigger are so sharp, while they remain so gentle.
Medialens.org is a British website established in summer 2001 by David Cromwell and David Edwards.
Each month, they scrutinise mainstream media coverage, especially on major issues like war, climate change, and the nature of news itself.
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