The Propaganda Model: An Overview David Cromwell Excerpted from Private Planet, 2002 In their 1988 book ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media‘, Edward Herman and Noam Chomskyintroduced their ‘propaganda model’ of the media. The propaganda model argues that there are 5 classes of [...]
(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 [...]
. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, arriving for an extradition hearing at the high court in London on 2 November 2011. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The Dirty War on WikiLeaks Media smears suggest Swedish complicity in a Washington-driven push to punish Julian Assange by John Pilger War by media, says current military [...]
How our Understanding of History is Manipulated By Andrew J. Fell March 07, 2012 “Activist Post” – It’s becoming increasingly apparent that in order for us, the general population, to understand the deeper issues of the current geopolitical situation, it is imperative for us to understand the [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo by John Pilger, December 02, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American [...]
The last 24 hours has seen this site get the most visits it has ever had. As a one anarchist band that is at least a small achievement. If you take the time to look at this first page, try going to “Older Entries” at the bottom and you will see more entries for the [...]
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 cracks, its Edwardian organ playing forlornly. Two small [...]
Flying the flag, faking the news 2 September 2010 In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term “public relations”. Bernays believed in “engineering public consent” and creating “false realties” as news. Here [...]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will hear on Wednesday if he is to be extradited to Sweden. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA The Wikileaks founder will hear if he’s to become a free man after an 11-month bail or removed to Sweden within 14 days reddit this Robert Booth and Esther Addley guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 October 2011 13.44 BST [...]
Julian Assange in conversation with John PilgerAn extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger’s latest film ‘The War You Don’t See’ John Pilger defends Julian Assange15 December 2010. An interview with John Pilger on Democracy Now! in which he defends WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange The War You Don’t See trailerThe official [...]
The ‘Getting’ of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution by John Pilger, October 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The High Court in London will soon to decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Emmerson QC, counsel [...]
The strange silencing of liberal America 7 July 2011 How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, ‘Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia‘, was banned in the United States in 1980, the broadcaster PBS cut all contact. Negotiations were ended abruptly; phone calls were not returned. Something had happened. But what? [...]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the high court in London for his appeal hearing to avoid extradition to Sweden, where the Australian is accused of rape and sexual assault. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP The European arrest warrant issued for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is invalid, the high court was told on Tuesday, because of significant discrepancies [...]
It should not come as a surprise that the phrases Manufacturing Consent and the creation of consent are actually from the mouths of arch supporters of the capital project and capitalist democracy. This was the function seen as entirely necessary to keep capitalist democracy afloat, in the battle for the mine. Where a totalitarian regime would and [...]
The caricature above is by Andy Dolphin you can view his site at, http://myweekinart.blogspot.com/2010/07/julia-gillard-digital-caricature.html In this article Pilger draws some useful conclusions about Gillard. Her warmongering stance is replete with all the Labor racist madness built up in the Labor Party since 1891. She as an unelected Prime Minister heading up an unelected government survives on [...]
Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn journalism prize WikiLeaks founder praised as ‘brave, determined, independent’ by judges Share672 Jason Deans guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 June 2011 15.46 BST Article history WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won the Martha Gelhorn journalism prize. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has won the 2011 Martha [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Marching for Anzac in the 51st State by John Pilger, April 22, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played Aussies-and-Japs. Pete’s father was [...]
