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The editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain‘s most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked because he ran the only English-language popular paper to…
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he’d be hanged. So too, mind you, would…
On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show…
Thinking about education involves two broad frames of reference that in turn generate two approaches of study. Part of education is intrinsic…
Doesn’t sufficient evidence of deceit and destruction now exist for everyone to see it? Can the average American – much less the…
2004 is a big year in many ways, what with the Presidential election, the war in Iraq and other pressing issues. It…
Since I left Australia, one journey has remained a small dream unfulfilled. It involves going north in New South Wales, to an…
The Bush administration’s resolve on “reforming” the Arab world poses an entangled dilemma, at least for the Arabs. For one, Arab countries…
Looking at visual images from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, news watchers now find themselves in the midst of a jolting experience that…
A beleaguered democracy beset by continual terrorist attacks by ruthless, depraved, and highly imaginative terrorists managed to foil a terrorist plot yesterday. …
On behalf of Safundi, Christopher J. Lee interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky on March 9, 2004, in his office at the Department of…
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture…
TEN YEARS ago, South Africa’s racist apartheid system was finally swept away with the country’s first democratic elections. African National Congress (ANC)…
Among the millions of words that have appeared in the U.S. press since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu…
Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed…
(1) Why have you sent messages about your book’s paperback release as ZNet Updates? Out of frustration and out of hope.…
“What we need is to revive the vision of what the Rainbow Coalition campaigns of 1984 and 1988 could have become. A…
On his way to confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the current U.N. envoy John Negroponte was busily twisting language like a…
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…
Ehrenreich: I have heard that there’s been a lot of interest around the world in your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism,…
Those who were united a year ago in opposition to the war on Iraq find themselves divided on where we should go…
On the front door of my house is a sign, “Bring the Troops Home Now!” It’s been there for months. I hope…
In the New Statesman, John Pilger writes: “With the most lethal weapons billions of dollars can buy, and the threats of their…
When the anchor of public television’s main news program goes out of his way to tell viewers that he’s setting the record…
Having been kindly invited to contribute to an upcoming issue of Democracy & Nature, I was sent some back issues, including No.…
As a Czech poster put it, “the Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the…
With warfare escalating in Iraq, syndicated columnist George Will has just explained the logic of the occupation. “In the war against the…
Some of the most closely guarded documents in the White House are sure to be the ones written by the president’s top…
Some of the most closely guarded documents in the White House are sure to be the ones written by the president’s top…
Ten years ago, I filmed secretly in East Timor, a small country in south-east Asia whose brutal occupation was largely unknown to…
2004 is turning out to be an important political year in many ways. For those on the political Left, the independent, non-Green,…
1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time frame we have in mind.…
This weekend, I’m preparing for an April 6, 2004 entry into the Pekin FCI (Federal Correctional Institute) in Peoria. I’m one of…
I guess a conclusion for an exchange is mainly a sum up. I am not sure I can do that, and avoid…
In January 2004, the Chicago Tribune cited military sources in Washington planning a “spring offensive” on the border region between Pakistan and…
Sydney Hyde Park 20 March 2004: Let us be clear on the facts of what happened one year ago today. The United…
The invasion of Iraq, now in its second year, was “organised with lies”, says the new Spanish prime minister. Does anyone doubt…
On Iraq There’s a lot of focus on the American death toll but personally I think that’s partly propaganda exaggeration. Polls…
The current threat of attacks in countries whose governments have close alliances with Washington is the latest stage in a long struggle…
Review of: Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars. James Currey, Oxford, 2003. 234 pages. Sudan is, like the…
TONY JONES: John Pilger, do you still maintain that the world depends on what you call “the Iraqi resistance” to inflict a…
Bombed into Liberation A recent New York Times article accurately portrayed two Afghan women from the poor farming village of Haji Bai…
Those who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding. And for…
Media Coverage of the Clashes between Protesters and State Security Forces According to Venezuela’s opposition leaders, the oppositional media, and most international…
“There are those who fight for a day, and are good. There are those who fight for many years, and are very…
Reviewing Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Zed Books, London, 2002. Nzongola-Ntalaja was interviewed in preparation for…
> 1) Effects of this what is now called ‘globalisation’ but should be rather called ‘investors rights agreements’ are very visible in…
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It…
If Mark Twain were living now instead of a century ago — when he declared himself “an anti-imperialist” and proclaimed that “I…
