Mainstream support for Wikileaks is often far removed from the daily news cycle. Many journalists seem to feel uncomfortable backing Wikileaks (and Julian Assange) because of his ongoing legal issues, forgetting the key miracle behind the site; the profound challenges to the established information order and exposing the sycophancy between journalists and corporate power. I…
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John Pilger rightly salutes the vital importance of Wikileaks
DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? – with John PILGER from CaTV on Vimeo.
Of course Australia was invaded
John Pilger on acknowledging an historical reality: The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. “We were invaded,” said…
Who knew I was a nihilist leftist who loathes Western civilisation?
So I wrote an article for the ABC last week on the murder of Osama Bin Laden. I asked questions about his death, the significance of his assassination, the role of Al-Qaeda in making the US an insanely paranoid security state post 9/11 and the terror leader’s relevance (or otherwise) during the Arab Spring. But…
Breaking Australia’s silence over Wikileaks
Video from this week’s massive Sydney Wikileaks event with John Pilger, Andrew Wilkie MP and Julian Burnside: Breaking Australia’s silence: WikiLeaks and freedom from John Pilger on Vimeo.
Saluting Green Left Weekly’s 20th anniversary
Such alternative press is vital in an age where the mainstream media largely speaks for corporate interests: One of the despairs of our time is a corporate media that speaks for authority and power, rarely for its readers and viewers. One of the excitements of our time is the means by which we can now…
One hour of Assange in long interview with Pilger on freedom and Wikileaks
Here’s an extended interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the John Pilger film The War You Don’t See: John Pilger in conversation with Julian Assange from John Pilger on Vimeo.
