Communist China’s machinery of media manipulation, so slyly successful during the earthquake in Sichuan 2008, the Tibetan uprising of that year, and also applied during the violent suppression of Uyghur protests in Urumchi in 2009, has once again moved into duplicitous and cynical action. China’s totalitarian regime is obsessed with control, and ever careful to [...]
Photo (minus text) from badidea Email Your Oppostion Now: http://www.bbcworldwide.com/contact–us.aspx This staggering display of craven appeasement http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/25/content_11429176.htm no doubt has its origins in the close relationship between the BBC and the British Foreign Office, whose senior officials share an Establishment ideology that has for decades dominated the British governmental landscape. Many executives (apart unusually from John [...]
Under the draconian conditions which are exercised in occupied nations such as Tibet and East Turkestan (renamed as Xinjiang following annexation by Communist China in 1949) there is no normality, as experienced and understood in more democratic and liberal societies. The range and extent of human rights abuses inflicted upon Uyghurs and Tibetans, the ongoing corrosion of [...]
Image:unpluggedtheatre Following on from the 2008 film, ‘A Year in Tibet’, which was a shameful distortion of life inside Tibet http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bbc-whitewashes-tibet.html the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has again found itself in hot-water, this time as a result of permitting a pro-Chinese perspective on Tibet to dominate a feature on its Radio Four’s flagship ‘Today’ program. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/29/bbc-trust-tibet-radio-4-today [...]
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