Vietnam

In his latest column for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the latest chess moves in the enduring ‘great game’ for domination of the world – from the invasion of Africa to a new cold war in Asia.

In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger writes that regardless of diplomatic attempts to delay an attack on Syria, the US objective has nothing to do with chemical weapons and everything to do with wiping out the last independent states in the Middle East.

John Pilger recalls the dawn of the “PR age” and how whistleblowing reveals what Daniel Ellsberg calls “that abyss”.

John Pilger describes reporting Margaret Thatcher’s many wars, at home and abroad, from the side of her enemies – such as miners and Vietnamese children. He argues that her acolytes ensure she ‘didn’t really die at all’.

John Pilger replies to Jemima Khan who, with others, lost bail money when Julian Assange sought and was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Jemima Khan has attacked Assange and his supporters as “blinkered”.

John Pilger traces the political history of the BBC’s reporting of colonial war as an essential part of an establishment consensusus, with Palestine as a vivid example.

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.

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.

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?

In an article for the Guardian in London, John Pilger describes the attacks on WikiLeaks and the smearing of its editor Julian Assange that now permeate much of the Swedish media. A decision by the UK Supreme Court on Assange’s extradition to Sweden is now imminent, over which hangs the prospect of his transfer to the United States where a fabricated indictment awaits him.