The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying: ‘Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m →| Media Lens
Stanley Betts is a talented, 23-year-old video editor and filmmaker. His video, ‘Why Pascal Was Right - Benefits of Being Alone’, has been viewed 1.3 million times on YouTube. Stan began podcasting with a refreshingly honest interview with his dad, the playwright Torben Betts. The theme of the inter| Media Lens
I don’t doubt that I have lived a privileged and sheltered life, but before Israel’s genocide in Gaza I had never seen a hospital patient on an intravenous drip being burned alive. I didn’t want to see it. Social media is like that - before you realise what you’re seeing, you’ve seen it. And it can’| Media Lens
What, then, is the alternative to resisting ‘Evil’? And what on earth might be our motivation for doing something else? Three modern masters of meditation bowl us the same googly from left field. The Indian mystic Osho said: ‘Someone insults you. You just stand still, remain silent. The mechanis| Media Lens
The illegal, unprovoked, full-scale US-UK invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 wrecked the country at the cost of at least one million Iraqi lives. It was waged on the basis of a supposed threat from ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that did not exist. Less well-known is the fact that everyone at th| Media Lens
Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media 'spectrum' continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk and John Pilger in the immediate aftermath of their deaths. Where is the humanity, dec| Media Lens