Western victims are presented by the British press as real, important people with names, families, hopes and dreams. Iraqi and Afghan victims of British and American violence are quite another matter. Media Lens looks at the difference

Media Lens responds to the recent legal threats made against them by News International and points out their offensive absurdity given the central role played by the mainstream press in facilitating the deaths of over a million people.

In a guest media alert, David Peterson responds to Oliver Kamm on US intelligence and Iran.

The deep-seated tendency of the elite media to bury the crimes of the powerful will be well to the fore as Bush prepares to leave office, write Media Lens.

Media Lens reports on the UK media's failure to address recent admissions by prominent whistleblowers within the US media

The journalists who have been venting righteous outrage over the recent actions of the Burmese regime have been curiously silent about the UK's far more destructive actions in Iraq, writes Media Lens.

Media Lens looks at the narrow coverage of the Somalia crisis, and the media's failure to draw attention to the West's role.

Media Lens comments on the recent appointment of Roger Alton as editor of the Independent, and asks him why an important story about the lack of WMD in Iraq was never published.

Medialens questions Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor, on the BBC's unequal coverage of Palestinian and Israeli deaths.

The failure of the mainstream press to report accurately on the reasons for, and the devastation wrought by, the invasion of Iraq has had appalling consequences, write Media Lens.

The disproportionate coverage given to Israeli and Palestinian deaths, both in scale and in tone, demolishes media claims to impartiality and reveals them as cheerleaders for Western power, writes Media Lens.

While Nick Davies' 'Flat Earth News' is worth reading and sheds some light on the workings of the mainstream press, it fails to provide any kind of structural analysis, writes Media Lens.

Media Lens reviews Nick Davies' book 'Flat Earth News', finding it to be based on assumptions and "rules" that are themselves of the 'flat earth' variety.

As the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip escalated, mainstream reporting again failed to provide the necessary context to the violence, writes Media Lens.

Media Lens on the media's reporting on the death of Suharto, which served to conceal both the scale of his atrocities and, critically, British and American complicity in them.

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism, tackling in particular the mythical capitalist "success stories" of China and India.

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism.

Media Lens examines David Aaronovitch's record of supporting imperialist U.S./UK interventionist policies in liberal, compassionate language.

Media Lens analyse how the mainstream media create threats that don't exist to further the official agenda, noting that the media's apparent concern for human rights in places like Darfur and Afghanistan is in fact driven by the demands of power.

The Guardian's record is nothing to boast of, write Media Lens - particularly with regard to Iraq's refugee crisis.