Britain’s high court showed no hesitation in sending Julian Assange to his death, living or otherwise.
Film critics rarely question the corporate control exhibited in movies such as <i>Munich</i>, which endorse Israeli policy.
No image available
/ 1 December 2008
The histrionics of Obamamania have permitted no scrutiny of liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship.
No image available
/ 10 September 2008
The US and its allies pose the biggest
danger to world peace
When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence — cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries.
Australian governments actively encourage this. Witness the recent "G’Day USA" campaign, in which Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman sought to persuade Americans that, unlike the empire’s problematic outposts, a gormless greeting awaited them Down Under.
No image available
/ 8 February 2008
I had suggested to Marina that we meet in the safety of the Intercontinental Hotel, where foreigners stay in Kabul, but she said no. She had been there once and government agents, suspecting she was a Rawa member, had arrested her. We met instead at a safe house.
Just as the London bombs in the summer of 2005 were Blair’s bombs, the inevitable consequence of his government’s lawless attack on Iraq, so the potential bombs in the summer of 2007 are Brown’s bombs. Gordon Brown, Blair’s successor as prime minister, has been an unerring supporter of the unprovoked bloodbath whose victims now equal those of the Rwandan genocide.
No image available
/ 31 January 2006
"On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in London’s Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British policies," writes John Pilger.
No image available
/ 21 November 2005
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20Â 000 lives. "Why are you here?" asked the man sitting opposite me in the packed jeep-bus that chugged up the hill.
No image available
/ 8 November 2005
A Royal Air Force officer is about to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq because the war is illegal. Malcolm Kendall-Smith is the first British officer to face criminal charges for challenging the legality of the invasion and occupation. He is not a conscientious objector; he has completed two tours in Iraq.
No image available
/ 21 October 2005
Culture and ideas and words constitute a world power, and they stand against the current menace — thanks in no small measure to Nobel Prize-winner Harold Pinter, writes John Pilger.
No image available
/ 14 October 2003
Two years ago, as the bombs began to drop, George W Bush promised Afghanistan ‘the generosity of America and its allies’. Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue routinely. What was the purpose?