April 28, 2012
(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr) You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It? Saturday, 28 April 2012 08:01By John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Babar Ahmad, European Court of Human Rights, Government of the United Kingdom, Habeas corpus, John Pilger, Richard O'Dwyer, United States
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April 6, 2012
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful by John Pilger, April 06, 2012 Print This | Share This Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I [...]
Tags: Australia, Barack Obama, Dili, East Timor, Evans, Gareth Evans, George W. Bush, Kopassus, Stephen Zunes, Timor
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March 5, 2012
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation [...]
Tags: Britain, Chagos Archipelago, Chagossian, Christopher Hitchens, Diego Garcia, Harold Pinter, Harold Wilson, Public Record Office, United State, William Blum, World War II
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February 28, 2012
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I’ve seen, if they’d watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do”. - John Pilger Related articles A John Pilger article, Once again, war is prime time and [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, David Richards, Harold Pinter, International Atomic Energy Agency, John Pilger, Ministry of Defence, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, United State
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January 21, 2012
The World War on Democracy By John Pilger January 20, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on [...]
Tags: Africa, Britain, Chagos Archipelago, Chagossian, Colonial Office, Diego Garcia, Harold Pinter, Harold Wilson, International Criminal Court, Iraq, John Pilger, Lisette, Mauritius, United State, United States, William Blum
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November 23, 2011
In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting 10 November 2011 Alameda Park is Mexico City’s languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery and heels. The cobbled paths undulate from the great earthquake of 1985. You imagine the fairground sinking into the cobwebs of [...]
Tags: Alameda Park, Carlos Slim, Diego Rivera, Felipe Calderón, Mexico, Mexico City, United States, WikiLeaks
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August 8, 2011
In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change 4 August 2011 On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of me were two large, funny females resplendent in frills of blinding yellow; one of them had an especially long bongo under [...]
Tags: Caribbean, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Havana, Johnny Weissmuller, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Raúl Castro, Soviet Union, United States
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July 11, 2011
Brainwashing the polite and professional way 23 June 2011 One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). “A critical look at salaried professionals,” says the cover, “and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives.” Its theme is postmodern America but also applies [...]
Tags: 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, BBC, Disciplined Minds, Frederick Ogilvie, Jeff Schmidt, John Humphrys, Labour Party (UK), United Nations Security Council resolution
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May 26, 2011
Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey 26 May 2011 When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in [...]
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May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 4, 2011
A very good John Pilger article on David Cameron and British policy and history in the Middle East and Libya. (George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site) David Cameron’s gift of war and racism, to them and us 6 April 2011 The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Cameron, Iraqi National Congress, John Pilger, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, United States
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May 3, 2011
At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]
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April 30, 2011
This film is something you should watch of you want to get anything like a proper view of the effects of and the reasons for war. War has been and will always be a continuing series of criminal acts, at best the participants can in certain circumstances say they just did not understand what they [...]
Tags: Australia, BBC Radio 4, Curzon Soho, egypt, Everyman cinema, John Pilger, London, United States
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We Keep Dancin’ To That Voodoo Rhythm
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
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