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1. John Pilger: Cambodia's holocaust remembered, 30 years on

   over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not ... empty. Chairs and beds, pots and mats lay in the street, a car on its side, a bent bicycle. Behind fallen ... grass followed straight lines. Fertilised by the remains of thousands upon thousands of men, women and ...

2. John Pilger: Why the documentary must not be allowed to die

   on London. The War Game  was banned. “The effect of this film,” said the BBC, “has been judged to be ... of limited mental intelligence”. Most of the press swallowed this. The ban on  The War Game  ended ... Thames Television broadcast  Death on the Rock, a documentary about the war in Northern Ireland.  It was ...

3. John Pilger: Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism

   with the passing years [whereas] a man usually mellows.” On International Women’s Day 2012, such ... Australian women led the world in winning the vote. During the slaughter of the First World War, Australian ... Feminism John Pilger In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A R Taysom, deliberated on ...

4. John Pilger: The US plot against Assange

   investigation to take its course. The Guardian was then on the brink of publishing the Iraq “War Logs”, based on ... unanswered as Ny deployed the European Arrest Warrant, a draconian product of the “war on terror” supposedly ... Ecuador's offer of sanctuary is not questioned by the UK or Sweden.” On March 18, 2008, a war on WikiLeaks ...

5. John Pilger: We are all suspects now

   Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that ... abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Centre ... British government's announcement that it intends to spy on every email and phone call is old hat. ...

6. John Pilger: The prisoner says no to Big Brother

   a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase ... whispering and writing to each other on a notepad, which he shields from the cameras. Sometimes we laugh. ... "Time is up!" On New Year's Eve, I was allowed an extra 30 minutes and the man in the phone ...

7. John Pilger: Flying the flag, faking the news

   Imperialism & war John Pilger Media Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008 financial crisis, GFC) ... World War I, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to ... relations”. The US tobacco industry hired Bernays to convince women they should smoke in public. By ...

8. John Pilger: The Shammies awards for shonky journos

   "the end of the Vietnam war", America's savagery ensured the war went on for another two ... Imperialism & war Economy Media John Pilger There are awards for everyone. There are the ... America-bashers and Blair bait[ers]". (I am included). On 19 December, another contender, White's ...

9. John Pilger: Julian Assange must be brought home

   criminalise WikiLeaks and its editor and publisher. It was as if they planned a war on a single human being ... [and] criminal prosecution" and a unrelenting assault on reputation. The aim was to silence and ... and on the very principle of freedom of speech. Their main weapon would be personal smear. Their shock ...

10. John Pilger: Manning will inspire others to stand for truth

    reporter in Indochina, it dawned on me that the US exported its homicidal neuroses and called it war, even ... Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger The critical moment in the political trial of the ... century was on February 28 when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak ...

11. John Pilger: Corporate media responsible for mass hacking

    extremisms of state corruption and war, consumerism and an impoverishment known as “austerity”. Leveson ... 'information warfare'.” This is about “hacking” on a vast scale by the state and its intelligence and ... When everyone can be intercepted en masse, spying on individuals is redundant. Stasi, the East German ...

12. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Economy Democracy National liberation History John ... Indonesian dictator General Suharto seized the then-Portuguese colony on the island of Timor. The terror that ... the American plan was,” he told me. “There were bodies being washed up on the lawns of the British ...

13. United States: John Pilger film and visit banned

    a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and ... Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger ZCommunications received the following open letter ... media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan ...

14. The new warlord of Oz

    Imperialism & war Anti-racism Economy Elections Mining Coal Democracy Climate crisis ... Trade Unions, his popularity rested on his reputation as a hard-drinking larrikin, an Australian ... personal income on Earth: a model for the Blairites. And the great Mate across the Pacific loved Hawkie. ...

15. Blair, Olympic deals and the glimpse of another Britain

    and the rest of the “war on terror” that served to recruit new jihadists and bolster other forms of ... “paramount war crime”. Josh was arrested and charged with planning to lay explosives. “This was based on the ... governments prior to their invasion and the false justifications of the “war on terror”. His acquittal meant ...

16. Julia Gillard is no feminist hero

    Gillard enjoyed an unusually high approval rating. This was understandable. Her views on aggressive war ... vote”. On polling day, a majority of Australians followed the women. That is feminism. [This article is ... political life. But for so many commentators around the world to describe Julia Gillard’s attack on Abbott ...

17. John Pilger: The Son of Africa claims continent’s crown jewels

    Imperialism & war Economy John Pilger United States President Barack Obama announced on ... October 14 that he was sending US special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next ... Resistance Army (LRA), which "has murdered, raped and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women and ...

18. John Pilger: Breaking the Palestine taboo

    Imperialism & war Anti-racism International solidarity Middle East Democracy National ... liberation Media John Pilger “There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about ... attack on Gaza was an attack on all of us. The siege of Gaza is a siege of all of us. The denial of ...

19. John Pilger: Huge US spy program reveals 'democratic' lie

    Americans they should go to war in 1917 and persuading women to smoke in public; cigarettes were “torches of ... own film, The War on Democracy, to a major, liberally-minded US distributor, I was handed a laundry ... was based on systematic lying. Four years later, Frank Church conducted sensational hearings in the US ...

20. John Pilger: Khan is wrong, WikiLeaks a rare truth-teller

    truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam war. Like the philanthropist Jemima Khan, the investigative ... it is not difficult. In the New Statesman on February 5, Khan ended her support for an epic struggle ... for justice, truth and freedom with an article on WikiLeaks's founder. To Khan, the Ellsbergs and ...

21. Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue

    trained. He has revived the old cold war on two fronts: against China in Asia and with a “shield” of ... bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced ... “issue” diverts attention as successfully as this: not the free vote in Parliament on lowering the age of ...

22. John Pilger: The new propaganda is 'liberal'

    not on “orders from above”, but on the “submissive void” of the German public. Did that include the ... Today's “message” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal ... “All is normality on display. For [Nazi] goose-steppers, substitute the seemingly more innocuous ...

23. John Pilger: The West betrays Burma

    a virus called the "war on terror". When I phoned Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu ... public service? The answer is simple. They are all but extinguished by a virus called the "war on ... "war on terror" allows Australia and Israel to train Burma's internal security thugs. It ...

24. John Pilger: Murdoch a cultural Chernobyl

    to be brutal about it, better we get it done now." His most successful war has been on ... Sheffield, on April 15, 1989. Eddie's 14-year-old son, Adam, died in his arms. The "main reason for ... urinated on the brave cops" and "Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life". All of it was ...

25. John Pilger: The Leveson press inquiry — oh, what a lovely game

    on the BSkyB deal. Shock, horror. Offering glimpses of the power and petty gangsterism of the British ... rolled on, bemusement has given way to boredom; Tony Blair was allowed to whine about the Daily Mail ... arrested for war crimes." His Lordship duly apologised to the war criminal and the truth-teller was ...

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