The longest round of applause at last night’s WikiLeaks forum at Sydney Town Hall was reserved for David Hicks…
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Sheridan and Pilger punch on in Q&A brawl
The Australian’s bearded foreign editor Greg Sheridan and leftist expat John Pilger had a predictable spat on this week’s Q&A over the question of Indonesia.
Pilger: How Rupert runs Australia
Australia is a “Murdochracy”, says John Pilger, where the media baron and his army of pundits control the national narrative and agenda.
Talking the Town: Talking the Town: Pilger’s wrong to bag The West
Those expecting a fierce attack on media moguls from Australian ex-pat journalist John Pilger would have been disappointed at his Q&A session in Perth yesterday, writes Lawrence Apps.
Henderson: Pilger pontificates a history that didn’t happen
Gerard Henderson fights John Pilger’s damning speech about Australian society and our silence on big issues, accusing Pilger of rehashing conspiracies with no facts. “Most Australians do not share his left-wing interpretation of Australian history”.
Pilger: The great Australian silence
Australia would never treat a shipload of white people fleeing catastrophe the way we’re treating asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, said John Pilger in his City of Sydney lecture.
Pilger: Megrahi was framed
Suppressed evidence shows Abdel Bassest Megrahi, the man jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is innocent, says John Pilger, but both Britain and the US have too much at stake in the conviction to have ever allowed a fair trial.
Reaction to Pilger award reveals Zionist lobby’s fear of dissent
The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded its annual prize to journalist, author and documentary maker John Pilger, and Jewish leaders again are on the offensive.
Ron Paul: US08′s outsider candidate
Ron Paul’s US election campaign reflects the real division in American politics: not between Republicans and Democrats but rather between the tiny minority contented with the political status quo and the vast majority entirely alienated from it, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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