Loose canon

Filmmaker Peter Wintonick, director of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, speaks to the M&G.

Still his own man

Noam Chomsky is the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media.

'US foreign policy is straight out of the Mafia'

Noam Chomsky is the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media.

Bringing down the new Berlin Walls

The highest and oldest wall is that which separates "us" from "them". This is described today as a great divide of religions or "a clash of civilisations", which are false concepts, propagated to provide "the other" -- a target for fear and hatred that justifies invasion and plunder, writes John Pilger.

Yankee go home

The United States occupying army in Iraq (euphemistically called the Multi-National Force-Iraq) carries out extensive studies of popular attitudes. Its December 2007 report of a study of focus groups was uncharacteristically upbeat. The report concluded that the survey "provides very strong evidence" to refute the common view that "national reconciliation is neither anticipated nor possible".

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