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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an “insurrection of subjugated knowledge”. The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the conventional sources of news and information and to the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.

by: John Pilger on: 25th Nov, 05

The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.

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In April last year, Jo Wilding, a young British law student, filed a series of extraordinary eyewitness reports from inside the city. So fine are they, I have included one of her pieces in an anthology of the best investigative journalism*. Her film, A Letter to the Prime Minister, made inside Fallujah with Julia Guest, has not been shown on British television.

In addition, Dahr Jamail, an independent Lebanese-American journalist who has produced some of the best front-line reporting I have read, described all the "things" the BBC failed to "see". His interviews with doctors, local officials and families are on the internet, together with the work of those who have exposed the widespread use of uranium-tipped shells, another banned weapon, and cluster bombs, which Campbell would say are "technically legal".

Try these websites:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com
http://zmag.org
http://antiwar.com
http://truthout.com
http://indymedia.org.uk
http://informationclearinghouse.info
http://counterpunch.org


There are many more.

"Each word," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, "has an echo. So does each silence."