John Pilger describes the latest chapter in the extraordinary story of the ‘mass kidnapping’ of the people of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean, British citizens expelled from their homeland to make way for an American military base. On 22 October, Britain’s highest court of appeal, the Law Lords, demonstrated how British power works at its apex by handing down a transparently political judgement that dismissed the Magna Carta and banned an entire nation from ever going home.
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John Pilger writes that the lauding of Barack Obama has a history and that ‘historical moments’ ought to be less about their symbolism and accompanying histrionics than what they really mean. The question is: what is Obama’s true relation to unchanging American myths about the imposition of its notorious power?
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A VISIONARY PIECE Hossein Derakhshan, MRZINE [dropcap]B[/dropcap]arack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, has adopted…
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In a report for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the deception behind the pretext for a “national emergency” declared by the Australian government in Aboriginal areas. A political cry of “save the children” can also mean the profits of uranium and toxic waste.
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John Pilger describes the truth and lies of great power as practised by British “diplomacy”, and the prospects for peace and order following the US presidential election on November 4.