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Tribute to John Pilger

Alison Banville — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:35:49 +0000

We have lost the greatest journalist of our time. John Pilger has passed away. And what can one possibly say about this great man that will do him justice? Where are the words that can convey how inspirational and important he was? Not only his unparalleled journalism, but the man he was, made John universally admired and respected, because his […]

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The CIA coup against Australia is history’s warning in 2020

John Pilger — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 04:06:37 +0000

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Secret letters written in 1975 by the Queen and her man in Canberra, Sir John Kerr, can now be released by the National […]

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The Arrest of Assange is a Warning From History

John Pilger — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:03:00 +0000

If Assange is extradited to America for publishing what the Guardian calls truthful "things", what is to stop the current editor, Katherine Viner, following him, or the previous editor, Alan Rusbridger, or the prolific propagandist Luke Harding?

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The End of Press Freedom

Mike Raddie — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 01:02:33 +0000

Today there is a real fear that a journalist and publisher is about to be extradited from an ostensibly democratic country to face a sealed grand jury indictment, the charges of which may include espionage which can carry a sentence of life imprisonment or even capital punishment.

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Hold The Front Page. The Reporters Are Missing

John Pilger — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:53:37 +0000

In Britain, just one website offers consistently independent media criticism. This is the remarkable Media Lens - remarkable partly because its founders and editors as well as its only writers, David Edwards and David Cromwell, since 2001 have concentrated their gaze not on the usual suspects, the Tory press, but the paragons of reputable liberal journalism: the BBC, the Guardian, Channel 4 News.

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The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case

Dennis J Bernstein — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:48:48 +0000

Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. In a recent communication between Randy Credico, an Assange supporter, comic and radio producer, and Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House […]

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ABORIGINAL PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTEST THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES AS STOLEN WEALTH

John Pilger — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:08:53 +0000

For many Aboriginal people, the Commonwealth Games, previously the British Empire Games, represents the continuing legacy of settler-colonialism in this country. It is an opportunity to raise our voices on the world stage - to show how the colonial project is still alive in the lived experience of Aboriginal people, from the black jailing rates, to the skyrocketing rates of child removal, to the life expectancy gaps, to homelessness, and poverty and violence.

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The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop

John Pilger — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:01:45 +0000

We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.

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Movie Review ‘The Damp Squibel’: Cult hit or hit cult?

Mike Raddie — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:40:31 +0000

We don't normally do movie reviews here at BSNews. In fact, we usually concentrate exclusively on geo-politics and foreign policy, steer clear of sports and let others cover gossip and popular culture. My co-ed occasionally reveals her anthropological fascination and ultimate exasperation with the insidious twins of celebrity culture and the advertising industry but for me, I avoid them both like the plague, I never watch TV and I wouldn't know a Kardashian if one punched me in the face.

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‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough

David Edwards — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 04:28:20 +0000

Because the corporate press is about selling products and services to billions of consumers, it is loath to discuss the claim that an authentic, incomparable bliss is located within the human heart, and can be experienced by directing some attention away from external sources of 'happiness' to internal feelings in meditation. And yet this has been the assertion of every great spiritual master for thousands of years.

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