John Pilger analyses President Obama’s decision to send special forces to Uganda, Congo and Central African Republic. This amounts to a US invasion of the African continent – following the West’s de facto conquest of Libya. The dangers and ironies ought to be clear.
The ‘getting’ of Assange and the smearing of a revolution
John Pilger describes in the New Statesman how the WikiLeaks founder and editor is subjected to ‘a drip feed of hostility’ from those who were once his allies. The information revolution is a threat not only to great power but to its media gatekeepers.
War and shopping – an extremism that never speaks its name
John Pilger describes the surreal experience of a Westfield mega mall. The biggest mall in Europe has just opened in London, controlling the main entrance to the 2012 Olympics. In the West, consumerism and war are apparently natural allies, with indebted shopping now ‘normal’ – like ‘perpetual war’.
Hail to the true victors of Rupert’s revolution
John Pilger describes the lethal similarities between the propaganda that led to the invasions of Iraq and now Libya, and the arms industry’s view of “a very worthwhile region to target”.
Damn it or fear it, the forbidden truth is an insurrection in Britain
John Pilger describes the conditions that have led to the social explosion across the UK and argues that while crime may feed on riots, it does not ignite them.
In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change
John Pilger reports from Havana on his first assignment to Cuba in many years. He finds a softer, easier society, with the idea and symbol of revolutionary Cuba, unchanged.
Phoney War
The US is planning a massive intervention in Colombia under the pretext of fighting the ‘narco-guerrilla’.
Western war reporting is selective and the real stories of the Kosovan crisis remain largely untold
Last week, 14 members of the same Iraqi family were reportedly killed
when their house was hit by a missile. There were no military
installations nearby.
What did you do during the Dock Strike?
Members of the flexible workforce might find a lesson in the dockers’ fight against casualisation.
Moral Tourism
Whatever Nato says, the war was waged against innocent civilians and the tyrant is still in place.
