Australian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth and shining a light on inconvenient facts that often contradict the mainstream media narrative. In this episode of Talking Post, Pilger sits down with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo to discuss the war in Ukraine, the West versus China and the plight of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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A top US military officer pledged to support Taiwan militarily while warning Beijing to learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The remarks were made by General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during an event in New York on Wednesday. “The US is committed through the Taiwan Relations Act, and President Biden has said on many occasions recently that the United States will continue to support Taiwan,” Milley said. “We will support them militarily … We would try to help train them and equip them.” …”A lesson that comes out of Ukraine for China is that war on paper and real war are two different things. And what they have seen was a tremendous strategic miscalculation,” he said. “I think President Xi is taking a step back and … he’s evaluating the situation.” Milley said it would be hard for Beijing to carry out an amphibious attack across the Taiwan Strait. “That’s really difficult,” he said. “It’s really hard. And I think they’re coming to realise that and they’re probably evaluating the situation and recalculating what they might do.”
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EDITOR—In an interview with Finian Cunningham, internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says America is driving war against China, not out of strength but rather a fear of losing its erstwhile sole superpower position. The driving forces are multiple: the United States’ sense of itself as a diminishing global power; the destructive militarism of US capitalism and its “Merchants of Death”; deep-seated historical racism towards China; and an anachronistic American notion of “divine right” to dominate the rest of the globe. John Pilger warns that if the US does not come to terms with the reality of a multipolar world and the genuine equality of nations (as it professes) then armed conflict with China is on the cards.
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EDITOR—This is really a seminal, absorbing and highly accessible discussion, covering many crucial issues rarely or never broached on establishment channels or even many “independent” media, as the visible left in the US is not only alarmingly small but apparently underwhelming in the quality of leadership it offers. In that sense, the People’s Party’s chair, Nick Brana, seems to be a huge exception to that depressing rule, a young leader with the requisite populist vision and political maturity to tackle the enormously difficult task of creating a genuine alternative to the fraud that passes for democratic politics in America.
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ERIC ZUESSE—nnually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by the General Assembly against racism and other forms of bigotry — an annual Resolution condemning it, and expressing a commitment to doing everything possible to reduce bigoted acts. For the first time ever, on November 4th, America was joined not only by one or two voting against it, but 55 nations, and almost all gave as reasons that Russia was for it and has invaded Ukraine.
