To mark the second anniversary of the passing of John Pilger, CN presents his 2002 documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue followed by CN’s 2021 discussion with Pilger and historian Ilan Pappé.
WATCH: Pilger & Palestine
Category: Indigenous People
WATCH: John Pilger — War, Peace & Propaganda
John Pilger died two years ago today. Here are some of the things he was saying almost a decade ago about Australia, America and Palestine at an appearance at Politics in the Pub in Sydney in 2016.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Bernie Sanders, Zionist
Sanders has made clear all along that he isn’t actually disagreeing with the tenets of Zionism, as much as distancing himself personally from the revisionist Zionism of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
Starving Indigenous Peoples — Then & Now
Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza repeats the history of the U.S. and Canada where settler colonizers destroyed Indigenous communities’ access to food, writes Rosalyn R. LaPier.
Chris Hedges Report: Israel Also Sponsored a Genocide in Guatemala
Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the “Silent Holocaust” in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using “any methods of barbarity necessary.”
Breaking America’s Bonds With Israel
Taking a cue from the Declaration of Independence, M. Reza Behnam submits facts “to a candid world” that impel the dissolution of a destructive liaison.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
The Day After Genocide in Gaza
Neither the Abu Shabab gang nor the Hebron “emirate” will govern Palestinians, either in Gaza or the West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud.
A Different Revolution
There were two other original sins, rarely mentioned, that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin.