Media Lens is a media monitoring outfit. They are believers in Chomsky's Propaganda Model of the media, that the corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. This book shows how this plays out in prac[...]

Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer, who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey was an apprenticeship that served him well in his work for the king, after the Cardinal's fall from power in 1529. Cromwell's time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was on[...]

One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the[...]