Videoconference with Julian Assange at the Digital Culture Forum, organized by Argentina’s National Ministry of Culture, October 15, 2015. Photo by Romina Santarelli/Wikimedia Commons. Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this address outside the Central Criminal Court in London on September 7 as the
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Cowichan Conversations: It Is A Disgrace That Much of the MSM World Has Yet To Stand Up and Speak Out!
JOHN PILGER: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: John Pilger On The Arrest Of Julian Assange
This is a pivotal event for democracy and free media. Lying is generally OK in the political realm, but truth-telling will bring down all the forces that have been exposed by Wikileaks. John Pilger lays Read more…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Killing of History
One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why the British Said No to Europe
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The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by …
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why the Rise of Fascism is again the Issue
Screengrab of Charlie Chaplin from the film The Great Dictator (1940) The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality
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