We are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
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From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War
John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
The Betrayers of Assange
This is not about the survival of a free press. There is no longer a free press. The paramount issue is justice and our most precious human right: to be free.
Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
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Why Julian Assange’s Inhumane Prosecution Imperils Justice for Us All
Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. Do we need to be reminded that justice for one is justice for all?
The Great Game of Smashing Countries
A much repeated course of events: More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
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A Day in the Death of British Justice
The WikiLeaks’ leak of a Pentagon document dated 15 March, 2009 foretold the current war on journalism. U.S. intelligence, it said, intended to destroy WikiLeaks’ and Julian Assange’s “centre of gravity” with threats and “criminal prosecution”.
The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
Another Hiroshima is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now
With racially-motivated aggression towards China escalating, it’s important to reflect on history to avoid the catastrophe of nuclear war.