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Thursday, June 21, 2012

21 June - Blogs I'm Following II

Bradley Manning & Bidder #70Bradley Manning & Bidder #70 (Photo credit: Poster Boy NYC)
English: Salvation Army Kim Crawford (R) tells...English: Salvation Army Kim Crawford (R) tells Community Relations workers about the drinking water he is distributing to a neighborhood without water. Photo by John Pilger/EIPA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: FEMA mitigation experts use graphics ...English: FEMA mitigation experts use graphics mounted to the side of the Disaster Rebuilding Information van to demonstrate hurricane-resistant building techniques. Photo by John Pilger/EIPA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Columbia University: Reporting WarColumbia University: Reporting War (Photo credit: Marjorie Lipan)
English: John Pilger NS head shotEnglish: John Pilger NS head shot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
USAID FrontLines: A Printing Press for East Ti...USAID FrontLines: A Printing Press for East Timor/ USAID FrontLines: Printing Press Ida bá Timor-Leste (Photo credit: USAID Timor-Leste)
FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A 'Free Bradley...FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A 'Free Bradley Manning' sign is seen between barb wire in the fence line of Fort Meade December 17, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. An Article 32 hearing for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held at the fort and will determine if a general court martial can be held for Manning who leaked military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US State Department cables to WikiLeaks. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
History is the Enemy as ‘Brilliant’ Psy-ops Become the News

You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?

TOP UK AWARD TO JOURNALIST WHO EXPOSED WAR 'STRATEGY' OF AFGHANISTA​N Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US ‘killing strategy’ in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.
The Leveson Inquiry into the British Press - oh, what a lovely game In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how the Leveson public inquiry in the press set up following the phone-hacking revelations exemplifies the "matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised".
Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue John Pilger warns that same-sex marriage, now embraced by Barack Obama and his vice-president, is deployed as a distraction from issues of life and death and meaningful justice, such as those illuminated by the case of Bradley Manning.
East Timor: A lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful John Pilger returns to the once silent issue of East Timor, a tiny country rich in resources and ravaged by its neighbour, Indonesia, with the help of the Indonesian dictators western sponsors. And yet East Timor broke free. President Obama's threats to China once again highlight the undeclared power of small, impoverished countries.
Up, up and away: how money power works down under John Pilger reports on an Australian icon, the the world's oldest and safest international airline, and what happened when global finance took over.
The dirty war on WikiLeaks is now trial by media in Sweden In an article for the Guardian in London, John Pilger describes the attacks on WikiLeaks and the smearing of its editor Julian Assange that now permeate much of the Swedish media. A decision by the UK Supreme Court on Assange's extradition to Sweden is now imminent, over which hangs the prospect of his transfer to the United States where a fabricated indictment awaits him.
Julia Gillard's rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism John Pilger asks: What has happened to the politics of modern feminism? Has feminism forgotten its roots and been appropriated by its natural enemies? The rise of Australia's first female prime minister helps us understand.
It's time we recognised the Blair government's criminality John Pilger reviews the paperback of Gareth Peirce's 'Dispatches from the Dark Side: on Torture and the Death of Justice'. Peirce, Britain's pre-eminent human rights lawyer, argues that the Labour government of Tony Blair, in its pursuit of rapacious war and in support of policies of rendition and torture, was criminal.
John Pilger to speak at Melbourne conference John Pilger will be speaking at Marxism 2012 at the University of Melbourne, which takes place from Thursday 5 April to Sunday 8 April.
The world war on democracy John Pilger argues that, behind its democratic facade, the true nature of western political culture is that of American-led violence and ruthlessness in the cause of enduring dominance. He pays tribute to Lisette Talate, who has died. A Chagos islander forcibly expelled from her homeland by Britain in order to make way for a US military base, her resistance and that of people like her all over the world offer real hope, not the counterfeit slogans of those like Barack Obama.
In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring John Pilger describes his return to India, now promoted as an "economic tiger" and a "global leader", where the reality is very different for the lives of those beyond the advertisers' hoardings.
Once again, war is prime time and journalism's role is taboo John Pilger argues that the theatre of the inquiry in London into media phone hacking deflects from the role of journalism in promoting war and other crimes of state.
In Mexico, a univeral struggle against power and forgetting John Pilger reports from Mexico where the past often a vivid and surreal presence and the present sends a univeral message.
John Pilger honoured in top documentary awards The Grierson Trustees in London have announced that its top award for 2011 has been won by John Pilger for his "outstanding contribution to the art or craft of documentary making". Given in memory of the pioneer of the documentary, John Grierson, this is "the most coveted prize of the British Documentary Awards".

Dawn Airey, Chair of the Grierson Trust, said: "John Pilger is one of the world's great documentary producers. His work has uncovered atrocity, probled the underbelly of society, sparked controversy and challenged the heart of democracy. The Grierson Trust is proud and thrilled to honour John with its most prestigious award."
The son of Africa claims a continent's crown jewels In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger analyses President Obama's decision to send special forces to Uganda, Congo and Central African Republic. This amounts to a US invasion of the African continent - following the West's de facto conquest of Libya. The dangers and ironies ought to be clear.
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