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…
JOHN PILGER: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
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…
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…
Photo by Fernando Butcher 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…
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…
