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I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING

Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon. Written by Adam McKay. 👏

'Pragmatism cannot negotiate with physics. More fossil fuels, when burned, mean more CO₂, higher global temperatures, greater climate impacts and increased risks of crossing dangerous tipping points. Political compromise cannot change that.'

Anyone familiar with the official state narrative on the Ukraine War will find Lord Ponsonby's propaganda list published in his book, 'Falsehood in War-Time', very familiar. @medialens.org

'These people's takes are absurd.' A thing of joy to see Rick Beato demolish Ivy League, New York Times 'music critics': www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQTM...

Why the silence?

Can't possibly provide a vehicle for anyone even slightly left of centre. A message like that would upset the whole apple cart of the right wing owned media, the oligarchs, the bankers and the lobbyists.

An interview with the superb Peter Oborne in occupied east Jerusalem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0L...

BBC: Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi 'said that Moscow's overall losses in the war were six times higher than Ukraine's. "If you count only dead, then it's up to 11 times," he added.' www.bbc.com/news/article... See point 7 in Lord Ponsonby's 'Falsehood in War-Time': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falseho...

Another must-watch episode of Double Down Newswatch. Richard Sanders interviews Hasan Piker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaou...

Important analysis by Jonathan Cook: 'It’s extremely difficult for leftwing politicians to advance through the discourse policing of a state and billionaire-owned media whose very job is to prevent the political left from gaining exposure for its ideas...' substack.com/home/post/p-...

There has been a virulent backlash in the British media against the Green Party since its conference voted to brand Zionism as a racist ideology. Nobody has seen fit to ask any Palestinians what they think about Zionism and what it has meant for them.

What does it say about the new PM that climate barely merited a mention in an hour-long speech on the UK's future? And what does it say about the ‘mainstream’ media that he was not lambasted for ignoring the severity of the threat hanging over all of us? medialens.substack.com/p/has-andy-b...

Our latest media alert is out now: 'Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?' If we continue on a high-emission path there is a 70 per cent risk of the AMOC shutting down. The consequences would be catastrophic. medialens.substack.com/p/has-andy-b...

In June, we had the pleasure of chatting with Peter Oborne on Zoom about an article he was planning to write to mark our 25th anniversary. medialens.substack.com/p/peter-obor...

The day Rambo woke up...

Peter Oborne On 25 Years Of Media Lens And An Appeal For Support medialens.substack.com/p/peter-obor...

BBC News is one of the world’s ‘most trusted’ news organisations, boasting ‘impartial’ reporting supposedly free of state interference. It is therefore a complete mystery why BBC News is shielding the British public from crucial facts and awkward questions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO7...

Jonathan Cook forensically exposes how the 'mainstream' press is keeping our minds right for the security state's propaganda: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...

Another stellar edition of ColdType: www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF...

‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC really are so brazen. This front-page headline should read: 'Dozens of delegates walk out before Netanyahu's UN speech' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Former BBC journo Martin Asser: 'I remember in mid-2000s being handed Media Lens emails by my editor at BBC Middle East Online desk to draft the responses. They were hardest (usually impossible) to argue against compared with the pro-war pro-Israel stuff flooding our inbox.' x.com/martasser/st...

Our latest media alert, in case you missed it: medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...

'African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick. 'This is the conclusion of a study which interviewed people who live and work alongside the elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya.' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Michael Barker has spent a quarter of a century thinking about ‘the ability of the mainstream media to confound the clear thinking of ordinary people’ and it has been time well spent. underthemaskofphilanthropy.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/f...

How the BBC normalises the unthinkable: 'Netanyahu calls Macron's remarks on West Bank in UN speech "grotesque'" Try imagining this BBC headline: 'Putin calls Macron’s remarks on Ukraine in UN speech "grotesque"' www.bbc.com/news/article...

In this age of genocide, corporate psychopathy and climate breakdown, to be neutral is indeed to collaborate, not just with ‘their’ annihilation, but with our own. medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...

‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore @medialens.org #GAZA #EdSheeran #USA #uspoli medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...

Today's Media Alert is read here by Matthew Alford: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vL3...

Today's Media Alert, now available in Portuguese: 'You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train' – The Ed Sheeran Furore www.medialens.org/2026/you-can... 'Não Se Pode Ser Neutro Num Trem Em Movimento' – A Controvérsia Envolvendo Ed Sheeran zqxjkv0.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/m...

Media Alert: ‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...

Vote Green on October 8th in Holborn & St Pancras 💚

Excellent film. Please watch and share: 'When the UK government ignores mounting evidence for climate breakdown, a group of scientists turn to civil disobedience to warn the public themselves, risking arrest, a criminal record and their professional reputations.' plan-z-film.co.uk

Excellent letter in response to this BBC propaganda piece: 'A team that offered hope... then, four months later, Hamas attacked Israel.' substack.com/profile/2541...

Caitlin Johnstone captures the moronic inferno of the corporate monoculture exactly: 'If you want to be a mainstream artist in this dystopia, your vehicles for creative expression are (A) propaganda or (B) empty distraction.' caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/15/m...

Gavin Lewis: Diane Abbott MP, BBC Newsnight and the Pro-Israel ‘Racism Definition’ Moral Panic znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

New York Times: 'About a year ago, at B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization I lead, we realized we were struggling to explain what was happening in the West Bank. The problem was not a lack of information. Quite the opposite...' archive.ph/YmMu9

'From 7 October 2023 through August 2026, the military and settler militias killed some 1,107 Palestinians in the West Bank, including some 245 children and teenagers.' www.btselem.org/the_eliminat...

'Glaciers are retreating, permafrost and high-mountain slopes are becoming increasingly unstable, and communities and infrastructure downstream face growing risks from complex and cascading hazards.' www.bbc.com/news/article...

'We are living in an age of fools.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The BBC asked: ‘What will you tell your grandchildren about the summer of ‘26?...' If we are even around in ‘years to come’, we won’t be talking about the summer of ‘26; we will be talking about the cataclysmic summers to come. medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...

So, according to the BBC, the primary story here is war criminal Netanyahu suing Haaretz, not Harretz's highly credible claim that Netanyahu was warned by the UAE president that Hamas was planning an attack just days before 7 October. That’s jaw-droppingly shameful: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thanks to Murilo Leme, today's alert is already available in Portuguese: 'A Inundação no Nepal e no Tibete – Mais um Aviso, Mais uma Falha em Responder': zqxjkv0.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/m... Original here: www.medialens.org/2026/the-nep...

Latest media alert: About as many people died from the heat in the UK in May and June as died in the terror attacks of 11 September 2001. The heat deaths of 2026 are being met with action to make the problem worse. medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...

The deaths on 9/11 sparked a propaganda blitz launching a global "war on terror". Over 10 times that number killed in Europe by this summer's heat is met not just with inaction but by moves to make the crisis far worse. Media Lens on mounting global insanity: medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...

"After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual"

As Jonathan Cook writes, chief rabbi Mirvis' 'conflict of interest is probably visible from outer space'. jonathancook.substack.com/p/british-je...

A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of flood water rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet. Read our latest Media Alert here: medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...