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Pilger: Hold The Front Page!
May 09, 2013
Edmund Burke mythologised the press as a Fourth Estate. Today, we need a “fifth estate” right across the media and in journalism training and on the streets
Paley: Obama’s Mexico Visit
May 04, 2013
Competitiveness is a preferred term that governments use today to talk about privatization and regulatory reforms designed to benefit the corporate sector
Pilger: Inside the 'State of Imprisonment' – Australia
Apr 29, 2013
Today, the despair is so profound that the second cause of Aboriginal death is suicide. It is booming
Paley: Totally Protected Plunder?
Apr 22, 2013
Quieter is better. That seems to be the motto driving the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Parry: Why Can’t The 1% Play Nicely?
Apr 18, 2013
Thanks to capitalism the people who would have been labelled bullies in school are described as captains of industry in the adult world
Polinizaciones: Huila Continue to Defend Earth
Mar 01, 2013
Throughout Huila communities are gathering forces and preparing for the regional strike to be initiated on March 14
Pilger: Welcome To The Shammies
Jan 16, 2013
The Shammies celebrate the finest sham media
Pearson: Slavery by Another Name
Jan 07, 2013
Convict slave labor of the post-Civil War South was not only very profitable. It was absolutely indispensable
Paul: Why the Walmart Campaign Matters
Jan 06, 2013
Why this bottom-up Walmart campaign could really make a difference
Paterson: Indigenous Resistance in Mexico
Dec 31, 2012
Despite the ongoing and historic repression directed against them, Mexico’s indigenous communities push forward in defense of their lands, their cultures and their ecosystems
Pilger: The End Of Justice In America
Nov 08, 2012
It was a political show trial of Stalinist dimensions, an anti-Muslim sideshow to the “war on terror”
Paley: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
Oct 28, 2012
"I want to tell the world that here in Guatemala there is a peaceful resistance that exists, and we are prepared to stay here as long as possible"
Pilger: The Eager Role Of Julia Gillard
Oct 25, 2012
The necessary inversion of reality and double standard require a “carefully orchestrated process”
Pilger: No Feminist Hero
Oct 16, 2012
Shortly before Gillard's lauded rant against Abbott, her government forced through legislation that stripped A$100 from the poorest single parents - almost all of them women
Pilger: The Life And Death Of An Australian Hero
Oct 03, 2012
I first met Arthur Murray a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble
Pilger: Apartheid Never Died
Sep 20, 2012
There is a grand illusion that relegates all human endeavour to a material value, and confuses media with information and military conquest with humanitarian purpose
Pilger: The Pursuit Of Julian Assange
Aug 23, 2012
The British government's threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance
Pilger: Australia’s Olympic Prowess and A Secret Past
Aug 09, 2012
Of the 1,200 Aboriginal sportsmen and women he studied, only six – 0.5% -- had access to the same opportunities and sporting facilities as whites
Pilger: Blair, Olympic Deals and Another Britain
Jul 23, 2012
This is a story of two letters and two Britains



May 27, 2013
The “mess” left by George Bush and Tony Blair in Iraq is a sectarian war, the bombs of 7/7 and now a man waving a bloody meat cleaver in Woolwich