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Now this is a serious criticism of the Beeb with credibility and weight - the BBC’s coverage of the war has come under fire from one of its own correspondents in the Gulf who has fired off a furious memo claiming the corporation is misleading viewers about the conflict in Iraq, reports MediaGuardian.
I can take [...]

Continuing this introspective and self-publicising theme, Blogs of War produced by Dr Frank, in the USA by the way, wants to continue a discussion over my criticism of ‘warblogging’. We appear to be heading in the direction of semantics and he recognises this be pointing out the dangers of over-categorisation.
The Doc writes: “I think (Harry) [...]

I suspect most pro-liberation readers will have been particularly pleased to have heard the reports suggesting there was a people’s uprising in Basra being given armed support by British soilders. If this is how things spin out (and lets see because the talk of revolt has receeded somewhat since last night’s news) it would be [...]

It is wierd to hear members of the Socialist Workers Party banging on about how this is an “illegal war”, which breaks international law etc. After all these people claim to be revolutionaries committed to overthrowing parliamentry democracy, by violent means if necessary.
I’m not sure if there is a specific law about violent revolution in [...]

A new feature - each day Harry’s Place will bring you the words of wisdom from the revolutionary new medium that is the weblog. Blogs are about bringing you the incisive analysis and ‘out of the box’ thinking that boring old deadtree old/big media just doesn’t seem to deliver.
Where better to start than with the [...]

After all the blogbull about the BBC coverage I decided to do a quick random satellite news survey this morning. The BBC was interviewing a correpondent in Quatar and then discussing the the coalition strategy with a military analyst who used to work for Jane’s Defence. Sky News had a report from a correspondent in [...]

My recent criticism of the lack of value of some of the ‘warblogs’ has raised some mirth in certain quarters. Dr.Frank at Blogs of War and Angela Gunnin USA Today’s weblog both think I was rather silly to question the value of warblogs as (apparently) I produce one myself.
I don’t though do I? While it [...]

British Spin has an excellent riposte to the now hysterical Beebbashing spewing forth from right-wing US bloggers.
Spin says: “I mean come on. Forget 60 years of relentlessly clear reporting. Forget the fact that the BBC has never been a simple propaganda tool for the British government, instead aspiring to be something more complex and more [...]

Is there some diplomatic or cultural reason why the US military or government has not deemed it suitable to at least offer an apology for killing two of our soilders on Sunday?
According to this report in the Daily Telegraph Major-Gen Daniel Leaf, spokesman for the US air force in Kuwait, blamed the “fog of war” [...]

So have there been any signs of the anti-war left taking on board Johann Hari’s appeal for them to turn to a pro-democracy movement for Iraq? Well, not much evidence of a shift in emphasis from what I can see.
Surf around any of the anti-war left message boards and websites such as Urban 75 or [...]