Monthly Review of the Press

“Alternative View” was created 2004 in suspicion of increased censorship, reflected by mainstream media’s cover of ‘The War against Terror’ [Chap. 3] and 9/11 [Chap. 2]. Nourished by this suspicion, it has gradually increased to 30 Chapters, covering such aspects related to the degradation of civil rights [Chap. 4], Iraq [Chap. 5], Lebanon and Syria [Chap. 6], Afghanistan [Chap. 7], the former Soviet Union [Chap. 10], the rest of Europe [Chap. 11], Latin America [Chap. 12], USA & Canada [Chap. 1] and Africa [Chap. 13]. Special attention is focused on Israel & Palestine [Chap. 15] and their interrelation abroad [Chap. 16], Israeli undercover activity [Chap. 17] and topics related to (mostly Israeli) racism [Chap. 18]. The American Inquisition (the torture scandal) [Chap. 25], Iran and the new WMD-ghost [Chap. 26], Libya [Chap. 30] and environmental matters [Chap. 27] are other entities [Chapters 14, 19, 21-24, 28 & 29 not specified here]. Of basic importance to current trends is the globalisation and the financial crisis [Chap. 20], where central questions are not posed (e.g. who do we owe the money and how? Who gets rich by the crisis? Why are central banks private?).

Reading the “Alternative View” calls for critical evaluation of its content, but it also makes it evident why such criticism is so much more necessary when evaluating the propaganda items presented by the mainstream media.