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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it

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  1. Sep 9

    I have just appeared on Afshin Rattansi's excellent Going Underground. We tried to make sense of the blight of our times - imperialism and its war of attrition on truth, and Julian . Please watch:

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  2. Sep 5

    Australia, invader of Afghanistan, whines about what the Taliban "will" do. For more than 200 years the Australian colonists have waged a genocidal war of attrition against Indigenous Australians, the most incarcerated people on earth. Please read this:

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  3. Sep 3

    Few countries are as addicted to war in faraway places they know nothing about and offer no threat, and few are as bereft of remorse for the suffering they cause, as Australia. Why? Please read on:

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  4. Sep 1

    Hear the media beating its drums for another war on Afghanistan -- a war of isolation and punishment. Watch the gross generals warning of a 'ruthless' Taliban -- they with their rows of ribbons awarded for the extinction of thousands. Here is the history:

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  5. Aug 30

    It's confirmed that a US drone has murdered 10 members of an Afghan family, including six children. The lesson for the rest of us is to understand that such routine American terrorism and extremism come from the 'enlightened' West -- and to ask why.

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  6. Aug 30

    Unconfirmed reports say a US drone has killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children. This is a very typical American atrocity that's contemptuous of civilians. Isn't it time to identity the greatest source of terrorism in the world?

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  7. Aug 28

    Afghanistan: one more crime. “The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them ... It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis” - Harold Pinter.

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  8. Aug 24

    This 'forgotten' history of an enlightened Afghan government that brought equal rights to women says everything about the cynicism and savagery with which Western power and its media echoes have abused the people of Afghanistan. Please read:

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  9. Aug 18

    The world's bully, having not won a war since 1945, has nowhere to run up its flags and pin its medals. So it's at war with itself. Beware .... I post here again my film, 'Breaking the Silence', made in Afghanistan and the US in 2003.

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  10. Aug 16

    Kabul has 'fallen' like Saigon 'fell' - i.e. the US has been forced out of another nation where it massacred and profited. Then, as now, the real terrorist is not the Taliban. Here's my 2003 film, 'Breaking the Silence', filmed in Afghanistan and the US.

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  11. Aug 12

    Julian , an innocent man and heroic truth-teller, has been sent back to his prison cell by a judge who considers his suffering and the risks to his life "arguable". British justice is on trial in the land of Magna Carta. Please read:

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  12. Aug 12

    One case of Covid and Australia's capital Canberra is in lockdown. Elsewhere the army is deployed to keep people in their homes, starting with the poorest, while the vaccine rollout remains the slowest of any rich country.

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  13. Aug 7

    Julian 's fight for his life, and the life of real journalism, continues at the High Court in London on 11 August. Read Stella Moris' concise summary below and be in no doubt that those pursuing this bogus, immoral case are criminals.

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  14. Aug 6

    The Olympic athletes in Japan are wonderful to watch, but why not a moment's silence for those like the ordinary Japanese woman waiting for her bank in Hiroshima to open 76 years ago? Her shadow was burned into the steps by a nuclear bomb. Remember her, and be warned.

    The image of a woman burned into steps on the morning the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima
    ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW This is a woman burned into the steps of a bank in Hiroshima by the atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Remember this when you don't speak up against the fanatic Pompeo's lies about China, now leading us to war
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  15. Aug 5

    Glen Ford, a superb journalist, who never allowed the issues of race and class to be separated, has died too young. Glen co-founded the excellent Black Agenda Report and was a voice of sanity in a world of Obama-style 'identity politics'. I salute him.

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  16. Aug 1

    The truly shocking jailing of Craig Murray means that journalists approved by the state are protected and those who challenge power - real journalism - are in grave danger. Read this:

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  17. Jul 29

    First, it was Julian , now another truth-teller, Craig Murray, is a political prisoner. All solidarity with Craig and his family and, remember, you have been warned - again.

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  18. Jul 29

    This piece by Alan MacLeod is worth its long read. It reveals how the once 'respected' media, such as Reuters, is driving a disease of propaganda that is itself a pandemic.

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  19. Jul 27

    Today, 27 July, at 1pm UK time, CN Live will be showing my film, 'Palestine is Still the Issue'. This will be followed by a Live discussion between the ground-breaking historian Ilan Pappe and myself. Ilan appeared in the film 20 yrs ago. See below.

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  20. Jul 26

    Tomorrow, 27 July, the historian Ilan Pappe and I will be discussing Live on Consortium News the 20 years since my film, 'Palestine is Still the Issue' was broadcast on ITV - in which Ilan appeared. What has changed? the UK time is 2pm. For other times, see below.

    CN Live! examines Israel's sharp turn right & its impact on Palestine in the 20 years since John Pilger's film 'Palestine is Still the Issue.' With John Pilger & Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.  Tues., 9am EDT, 1pm BST. Full screening follows discussion.
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