Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
After years of backing Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen, the U.S and U.K. bombed the poorest country in the Middle East for trying to stop a genocide. This is the U.S. empire.
Cathy Vogan interviewed John Pilger on Julian Assange in 2011, and filmed this 2016 talk about the Pilger family’s origins in Australia.
As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.
Indonesian and Australian media are largely silent on Prabowo’s record in East Timor, writes Pat Walsh. This leaves voters in the dark about on an extended and revealing period of the likely next president of Indonesia.
The U.S. again voted against a Gaza ceasefire on Tuesday, but this time a slew of U.S. allies abandoned Washington in the U.N. General Assembly, writes Joe Lauria.
Julian Assange’s father John Shipton addressed a rally in Sydney, Australia on Human Rights Day Sunday, calling for his son’s immediate release.
Canada, Israel and three Pacific Island nations also voted at the General Assembly on Tuesday against what has been international law since 1967 — namely, that Israel must end its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights.
Being part of the global supply network that supplies parts for the Israeli F-35 jet fighters used over Gaza implicates Australia in alleged war crimes, writes Kellie Tranter.
After a bid for a public interest defense and classified documents needed for his defense were both denied him, whistleblower David McBride pled guilty to three reduced charges on Friday. Joe Lauria reports.