John Pilger reports that racial apartheid in South Africa was always reinforced by economic apartheid, which was never dismantled and is now a model for “free market” subjugation across the world.
The liberal way to run the world – “improve” or we’ll kill you
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger discuss what has become a political taboo in the West – the imperal violence of liberalism. From Kennedy to Blair and Obama, the most powerful ideology dares not say its name.
How the chosen ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past
John Pilger describes how sports-obsessed Australia’s disappointing showing at the London Olympics offered a glimpse of a secret past.
Blair, Olympic deals and the glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger reports on two letters that illuminate two very different Britains, and on how the London Olympics is being used to rehabilitate Tony Blair, the invader of Iraq.
Murdoch may be a convenient demon, but the media is a junta
John Pilger examines the struggle for supremacy among the media monopolies in Australia, where Rupert Murdoch launched his empire. He describes a worldwide system that dominates media in western countries, of which Murdoch is but one part.
History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news
John Pilger describes the appropriation of news and contemporary history by public relations, or psy-ops, as President Obama launches a campaign to conceal the truth about the war in Vietnam – so that ‘other Vietnams’ can proceed, suitably disguised.
Top UK award to journalist who exposed war ‘strategy’ of Afghanistan
Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US ‘killing strategy’ in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.
The Leveson Inquiry into the British press – oh, what a lovely game
John Pilger describes how the Leveson public inquiry in the press set up following the phone-hacking revelations exemplifies the “matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised”.
Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue
John Pilger warns that same-sex marriage, now embraced by Barack Obama and his vice-president, is deployed as a distraction from issues of life and death and meaningful justice, such as those illuminated by the case of Bradley Manning.
You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
John Pilger describes the politicising of the law in western democracies and the emergence of increasingly draconian police powers: the corollary of a contrived state of ‘permanent war’. Why should this be accepted?
