Beware of UK's liberal mainstream media.

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Today I found the following report in GlobalResearch.ca:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6291

On June 10, the Sunday Observer published a front page story, entitled "MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran". (1) The story alleged the discovery by the MI6 and the Customs and Excise of a nuclear conspiracy in which highly enriched uranium from Russia was trans-shipped through Sudan "destined" for Iran, suspected for use in Iran's "nuclear weapons programme."

There were references throughout the article to claims of anonymous "investigators" without any supporting evidence or attempt to substantiate these allegations. There was also open reference to "Iran's nuclear weapons programme" which is significant in the absence of any such claim or evidence from the IAEA inspectors. There was a recent precedence to this by another incriminating story (2) in the Guardian, 22 May, by Simon Tisdall, which accused Iran of a "Secret Plan for Summer Offensive to Force US out of Iraq", again using an unnamed US official as evidence.

Mehrnaz Shahabi of CASMII UK said today:

"This absence of care in journalistic duty is particularly significant because not only does it resonate very closely with the propaganda that paved the way to the 2003 illegal invasion of Iraq and its tragic human consequences, but it highlights an intensification of the war propaganda against Iran and the emergence of a dangerous shift, in that, now it is the mainstream liberal press such as the Guardian and the Observer, who enjoy a fair degree of respect and trust even amongst the anti-war readership, which seem to have been employed to disseminate Pentagon's agenda."

Similarly, the unfounded remarks made by US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff have prompted Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson to sebd him a letter demandin explanation:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Homeland_security_chair_responds_to_Chertoffs_0711.html

Following yesterday's statement by Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff that his remarks on the increased risk of terrorism this summer were based "on a gut feeling," the Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson has sent a letter to Chertoff demanding an explanation, "what color code in the Homeland Security Advisory System is associated with a 'gut feeling?' What sectors should be on alert as a result of your “gut feeling?

On the dark side, it looks like it is enough to make reference to anonymous investigators (government officials anyone?) or 'gut feelings' to disseminate propaganda nowadays.

On the bright side, there still seems to be people ready to challange that propaganda.

By the way, it seems to my as if they were raising the heat on Iran, specially in the light of the following news:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/10/africa/ME-GEN-Gulf-US-Navy.php

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The United States is sending a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday.

The Navy confirmed the departure of nuclear-powered USS Enterprise from it's home port of Norfolk, Virginia, with about 5,500 sailors and marines.

The Enterprise will provide "power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behavior of some countries, as well as support for our soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Vice Admiral Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, the commander of the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet.