World Citizen
The legendary John Pilger offers a radical and internationalist view of politics
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International Politics
In the Assange case we are all suspects now
- 02 February 2012
- 44 comments
Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state.
Asia
Glossy façades can’t hide an Indian spring
- 30 December 2011
- 22 comments
From Jammu Kashmir to Maharashtra, in a land of empty advertising slogans and fantastic wealth that barely conceals vast poverty, you can see the first signs of a popular new uprising.
Middle East
Once again, war is prime time and journalism’s role is taboo
- 01 December 2011
- 68 comments
With Libya recently dealt with ("It worked," said the Guardian), Iran is next, it seems.
International Politics
In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting
- 10 November 2011
- 35 comments
A landmark mural in Mexico City by Diego Rivera prompts John Pilger to muse how Mexican politics and business, as in other countries, have been polluted by greedy forces backed by Wall Street.
Society
War and shopping – the extremism that never speaks its name
- 22 September 2011
- 106 comments
The Westfield Stratford centre, backed by a former Israeli commando and touted as the future face of London by the likes of Boris Johnson, makes a mockery of the East End’s history of productive work.
Africa
Hail to the true victors of Rupert’s Revolution
- 09 September 2011
- 78 comments
The British press celebrates the triumph of Libya’s “rebel” forces. And the British arms industry toasts its continued success in expanding its markets in the Middle East.
UK Politics
Damn or fear it, the truth is that it’s an insurrection
- 18 August 2011
- 127 comments
Bankers loot the Treasury, MPs fiddle their expenses . . . and then the establishment turns on deprived young people in England’s inner cities and calls them criminals. The August disturbances weren’t riots: they were the revolt of the working class.
South America
Times have changed in Cuba, but softly the struggle continues
- 04 August 2011
- 56 comments
On his first visit in 1967, John Pilger witnessed the effects of US efforts to isolate the island. Cuba today may be going through a big social and political transition, but its people still hold independence dear.
Newspapers
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there’s an acrid smell of business as usual
- 21 July 2011
- 41 comments
The Fleet Street hacks and men from Westminster are now scrabbling to rewrite the history of the phone-hacking fiasco. The pact between press and parliament remains the same.
World Affairs
The strange silencing of liberal America
- 07 July 2011
- 76 comments
Obama's greatest achievement is having seduced, co-opted and silenced much of liberal opinion in the US.
