* No remorse from The London School of Economics (LSE) which agreed to take millions from Gaddafi
* Only 11 weeks ago, Gaddafi himself was invited to address LSE students via video link, with the help of a leading London PR firm
* Leading New York law firm White & Case took $1000 an hour to lobby for Gaddafi
* Among others who have written soft propaganda pieces for Gaddafi in the Western media in recent months: Sarah Leah Whitson, the head of Human Rights Watch’s Mideast division (the same woman who has helped run the HRW delegtimization campaign against Israel), and Stephen Walt (author of the best-selling conspiracy theory “The Israel Lobby”), and writers for The New York Times and Financial Times.
This dispatch concerns the situation in Libya.
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tom Gross on Libya's Lobbyists
From Tom Gross's Media Dispatch: