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On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four…
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Based mostly in the UK since 1962, John Pilger has been an internationally influential investigative reporter, a strong critic of Australian, British and American foreign policy since his early reporting days in Vietnam, and has also condemned official treatment of Indigenous Australians. Twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, he has won many other awards for his documentaries on foreign affairs and culture. He was also a cherished ZFriend.
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an “insurrection of subjugated knowledge”. The insurrection is well under way. In trying to…
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the…
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the…
An RAF officer is about to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq because the war is…
In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled ‘When the Pen Sleeps’. He expanded this…
“The propagandist’s purpose,†wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. 
Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator…
When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend’s rambling grey…
Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as “a guard dog of US foreign…