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In the Assange case we are all suspects now

John Pilger — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:55:56 GMT

Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state.

Glossy fa�ades can�t hide an Indian spring

John Pilger — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:30:31 GMT

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.

Once again, war is prime time and journalism�s role is taboo

John Pilger — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:15:53 GMT

With Libya recently dealt with ("It worked," said the Guardian), Iran is next, it seems.

In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting

John Pilger — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:50 GMT

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.

War and shopping � the extremism that never speaks its name

John Pilger — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:27:34 GMT

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.

Hail to the true victors of Rupert�s Revolution

John Pilger — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:11:05 GMT

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.

Damn or fear it, the truth is that it�s an insurrection

John Pilger — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:42:02 GMT

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.

Times have changed in Cuba, but softly the struggle continues

John Pilger — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:07:16 GMT

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.

Amid the Murdoch scandal, there�s an acrid smell of business as usual

John Pilger — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:18:21 GMT

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.

The strange silencing of liberal America

John Pilger — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:03:23 GMT

Obama's greatest achievement is having seduced, co-opted and silenced much of liberal opinion in the US.