John Pilger describes how the rich and powerful have taken over and distorted the people’s pleasure – sport, from Tiger Woods Inc to the World Cup, soon to begin in South Africa. Pilger looks at the way Fifa and multiple sponsors have invaded South Africa and ordinary South Africans have been pushed aside in the cause of profiteering.
Have a nice world war, folks
John Pilger describes the increasing American war front across the world: from Afghanistan to Africa and Latin America. This is the Third World War in all but name, waged by the only aggressive “ism” that denies it is an ideology and threatened not by introverted tribesmen in faraway places but by the anti-war instincts of its own citizens.
The violence of a few protesters in Gothenburg is trivial. Blair runs a violent government, which sells lethal weapons
The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters at Gothenburg, should take satisfaction from the panic of new right politicians like Blair and Berlusconi.
The state is more powerful than ever; the view that big business alone shapes the new world order is wrong
There is a view fashionable in the media that the world is being taken over by huge multinational corporations, accountable to no one.
Spoils Of A Massacre
In Indonesia 35 years ago, a military dictator took over, a million people were killed and a red carpet was rolled out for western capital. It was the start of globalisation in Asia, a model for the rest of the world, leaving a legacy of sweatshops and corruption.
The West’s ‘dirty wink’
In 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor. Like Saddam’s attack on Kuwait, the occupation was declared by the UN to be illegal. But no action ever followed. In the last 18 years a third of the East Timorese population has been killed, while Western governments have remained silent, or, like Britain, have sold arms worth hundreds of millions to Indonesia…
Cowards of Oz
Few care about their subjection to the Queen. But they’re jumpy about the Asiatic hordes.
Blood on Our Hands
More than 200,000 people have been killed since Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975. For decades, the British government was complicit in these killings. All that was supposed to change in May 1997. Instead, it’s been business as usual. John Pilger reports on the sham of Labour’s ethical foreign policy.
A Worse Slaughter
Blair makes much of ‘humanitarian values’ but sells arms to Indonesia which are used against East Timor.
Jakarta’s Godfathers
It is grotesque hypocrisy for Tony Blair to weep for the children of Dunblane.
