whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... Aboriginal children were being sexually abused in “unthinkable numbers” .... the government of John Howard suspended the Racial Discrimination Act .... and sent the army and “business managers” to take over black communities.Within a year, barely reported statistics revealed how bogus it all was. Out of 7433 Aboriginal children examined by doctors, a maximum of four possible cases of sexual...
Miscellania (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
18 November 2009 The following speech by renowned journalist and film-maker John Pilger was delivered on November 5 as he accepted the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. To read more of John Pilger's work, visit www.johnpilger.com * * * Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Adam Price MP (Plaid Cymru), Caroline Lucas MEP Leader, Green party, Bruce Kent, David Hare, John Pilger, Lowkey (Musician), Brian Eno, Dr J Buxton Centre for International Co-operation and Security, University of Bradford Tony Lloyd MP Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party Ann Cryer MP Colin Challen MP Clare Short MP Dave Anderson MP David Chaytor MP David Drew MP David Martin MEP David...
From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
By John Pilger 11-26-09 There is to be no compensation for those thousands of Aborigines wrenched from their families as children, known as the stolen generation. The previous, openly racist government’s “intervention” into Aboriginal lands in the Northern Territory is being consolidated. In 2007, on the pretext that Aboriginal children were being sexually abused in...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
John Pilger on Australia’s secret shame: …The rate of incarceration of black Australians is five times that of South Africa during the last years of apartheid. The state of Western Australia imprisons Aboriginal men at eight times the apartheid figure, an Aussie world record. … There is currently a liberal clarion call in Australia for a Bill of [...]
Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... it, they've actually been rewarded for getting things so badly wrong. Melanie Phillips, and not John Pilger or Seumas Milne, is on Question Time tonight.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... civil society. Legal action against political criticism is a very disturbing development." John Pilger, the veteran investigative journalist and documentary maker, praised Abdul-Ahad's reporting from Iraq. "Journalists who go to dangerous places and draw back the curtain of lies are rare – and needed," he said. "Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has pride of place in this...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Holy Quran says: " Corruption has spread on land and seas from what people have earned by their own hands. " Corruption according to Holy Quran is more grave than murder. See the mighty corrupt nation of the globe! The Mother of all Terrorists To Be Taken Quite Literally! Must watch " breaking the silence " by John Pilger or watch a short clip from the film "...
