Fryzo Nieuwsheadlines John Pilger van zondag 19 mei 2013 20:43:20

John Pilger reports on an Australian icon, the the world's oldest and safest international airline, and what happened when global finance took over.

In an article for the Guardian in London, John Pilger describes the attacks on WikiLeaks and the smearing of its editor Julian Assange that now permeate much of the Swedish media. A decision by the UK Supreme Court on Assange's extradition to Sweden is now imminent, over which hangs the prospect of his transfer to the United States where a fabricated indictment awaits him.

John Pilger asks: What has happened to the politics of modern feminism? Has feminism forgotten its roots and been appropriated by its natural enemies? The rise of Australia's first female prime minister helps us understand.

John Pilger reviews the paperback of Gareth Peirce's 'Dispatches from the Dark Side: on Torture and the Death of Justice'. Peirce, Britain's pre-eminent human rights lawyer, argues that the Labour government of Tony Blair, in its pursuit of rapacious war and in support of policies of rendition and torture, was criminal.

John Pilger returns to the once silent issue of East Timor, a tiny country rich in resources and ravaged by its neighbour, Indonesia, with the help of the Indonesian dictators western sponsors. And yet East Timor broke free. President Obama's threats to China once again highlight the undeclared power of small, impoverished countries.

John Pilger warns that same-sex marriage, now embraced by Barack Obama and his vice-president, is deployed as a distraction from issues of life and death and meaningful justice, such as those illuminated by the case of Bradley Manning.

John Pilger describes the politicising of the law in western democracies and the emergence of increasingly draconian police powers: the corollary of a contrived state of 'permanent war'. Why should this be accepted?

John Pilger describes how the Leveson public inquiry in the press set up following the phone-hacking revelations exemplifies the "matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised".

John Pilger describes the appropriation of news and contemporary history by public relations, or psy-ops, as President Obama launches a campaign to conceal the truth about the war in Vietnam - so that 'other Vietnams' can proceed, suitably disguised.

John Pilger examines the struggle for supremacy among the media monopolies in Australia, where Rupert Murdoch launched his empire. He describes a worldwide system that dominates media in western countries, of which Murdoch is but one part.

John Pilger reports on two letters that illuminate two very different Britains, and on how the London Olympics is being used to rehabilitate Tony Blair, the invader of Iraq.

John Pilger describes how sports-obsessed Australia's disappointing showing at the London Olympics offered a glimpse of a secret past.

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger  discuss what has become a political taboo in the West - the imperal violence of liberalism. From Kennedy to Blair and Obama, the most powerful ideology dares not say its name.

John Pilger describes the augmented Anglo-American government and media campaign against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador and remains in that country's London embassy.

John Pilger pays tribute to his friend, the Australian Aboriginal fighter for justice, Arthur Murray, an heroic figure almost unknown in the white society whose justice was denied him and his family.

John Pilger reports that racial apartheid in South Africa was always reinforced by economic apartheid, which was never dismantled and is now a model for "free market" subjugation across the world.

John Pilger argues that Australian prime minister Julia Gillard's internationally praised attack on opposition leader Tony Abbott as anti-woman masked the consequences of her policies for vulnerable Australians, especially women and black Australians.

John Pilger traces the political history of the BBC's reporting of colonial war as an essential part of an establishment consensusus, with Palestine as a vivid example.

John Pilger describes the ordeal of a doctor who founded a charity to help the people of Iraq: a miscarriage of justice that says more about America today than the circus of a presidential re-election.

John Pilger describes the important part played by the Australian government in the spread of nuclear dangers, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ending of her party's long-standing ban on the sale of uranium, an essential ingredient of nuclear weapons.

John Pilger inaugurates a very different prize for sham journalism, and not the journalism made infamous by Rupert Murdoch who "has been honoured enough".

John Pilger argues that the Leveson inquiry into the British press served to preserve a corrupt system, having omitted all mention of hacking on an scale that it touches us all.

John Pilger examines propaganda as not so much a conservative concept as a quintessentially liberal concept, an extremism that never speaks its name.

John Pilger replies to Jemima Khan who, with others, lost bail money when Julian Assange sought and was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Jemima Khan has attacked Assange and his supporters as "blinkered".

John Pilger describes the invasion of Africa and how its stated reasons are both false and unnewsworthy, leaving official truth to Hollywood.

John Pilger returns to where he began his career in journalism and argues that Australia, his homeland, provides a model of media that was once free and independent and is no more.

A new John Pilger film on Australia, Utopia, commissioned by ITV and backed by the UK company, Network Distributing, and produced by Dartmouth Films, will be delivered in the summer in Britain, and broadcast worldwide near the end of the year and early 2014."Interned in often rat-infested cells, almost 60 per cent of Western
Australia's
young prisoners are Aboriginal - out of 2.5 per cent of the
population... Their rate of incarceration is five times that of
apartheid
South Africa."In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger gives a taste of the latest film about Australia, his homeland - the first was The Secret Country, broadcast in 1985.

John Pilger describes reporting Margaret Thatcher's many wars, at home and abroad, from the side of her enemies - such as miners and Vietnamese children. He argues that her acolytes ensure she 'didn't really die at all'.

As the Supreme Court in Britain hears the Julian Assange case, John Pilger examines the implications of an intensified US campaign to silence WikiLeaks and prosecute Assange for a crime that doesn't exist, threatening the principle of free speech and all unfettered journalism.