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  1. Cambodia's missing criminals

    John Pilger John Pilger At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the ... room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people ... Cambodia. In 1973, B-52s dropped more bombs on Cambodia's populated heartland than were dropped on ...

  2. Freeing Julian Assange 鈥 the last chapter

    unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention 鈥 an international tribunal that ... Extradition Warrant, itself now discredited by Parliament. The UN Working Group bases its judgments on the ... European Convention on Human Rights and three other treaties that are binding on all its signatories. Both ...

  3. John Pilger: 'Getting' Assange and the smearing a revolution

    Bush鈥檚 鈥war on terror鈥 has changed all that. Obama has pursued more whistleblowers than any US president. ... dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer. Both the women ... involved said they had consented to have sex. On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed in ...

  4. John Pilger: Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the 'lucky country'

    for renewed militarism and war, as ordained by the Bush administration, and to cover attacks on ... unoriginal, race-obsessed and in thrall to imperial power and its wars. From Britain's 19th century opium ... war-dead Australians had never mourned were found right under their noses- those of a remarkable indigenous ...

  5. John Pilger: Support NT Indigenous fightback

    on that shame list. Even impoverished, war-ravaged Sri Lanka has beaten the disease. But not lucky ... until our government ends its war on Indigenous Australia, until it negotiates a treaty that gives back ... Teachers鈥 Federation on April 23. It was part of a public launch of the Four Days in July national ...

  6. John Pilger: Injustice, resistance rising in India

    environmentalist Vandana Shiva, 鈥渢he government has declared war on its own people鈥. Using colonial-era laws, ... and economic justice. Widespread violence against women is only now precariously on a political ... Feminism Economy Democracy John Pilger In five-star hotels on Mumbai's seafront, children of ...

  7. John Pilger: Holocaust denied

    Russia's war in Georgia and the terrorism in Mumbai, Obama's silence on Palestine marks his approval, ... Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie". It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. ... parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on Al ...

  8. John Pilger: Mark the first signs of an Indian spring

    during the 1971 war with Pakistan, civil defence units in soup-plate helmets and lungis toured the ... humiliating, this proud new metropolis would surely be enabling. On August 15, 1947, it was the setting for ... Indians than ever are living in poverty than anywhere on Earth, including a third of all malnourished ...

  9. John Pilger: Britain and the cause of fear and ignorance

    on the door, and women who now never go out. In effect, control orders have been served on thousands ... of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: ... war is well under way. As Peirce points out, "internment, discredited and abandoned in Northern ...

  10. John Pilger: Impoverished and silenced, we must fight back

    鈥淲hy are you standing in front of each door like a soldier on parade?鈥 鈥淣ew system,鈥 he replied. 鈥淚 am ... and 鈥減ublic service鈥 is normal. Prime ministers who lie openly about lobbyists and war aims are ... activist group UK Uncut forces bank branches to close and six brave women climb the highest building in ...

  11. Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times

    being prosecuted as war criminals, Blair as a private citizen may no longer be untouchable. On March 20, ... and some were dying", she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at the ... Bush-Cheney-Blair "long war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's independence ...

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