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If the current propagandists get their war with China, this will be a fraction of what is to come.

While no threat from China exists, media propagandists are trying to ignite a war the likes of which weve never seen.

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists,

Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.   By John Pilger In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. Th

Renowned journalist John Pilger reveals how the media is preparing the public by peddling propaganda to prepare for the coming war with China.

In an era of partisan pandering, he offers something radically different.

For some years much of South African society has voiced or has appeared to be consumed by hopelessness and demoralisation. There is a sense that what was gained in achieving democracy in 1990-1994 has been gutted by corruption, State Capture, destruction of state enterprises and other key institutions and infrastructure. A range of other ills spread over almost all institutions impact, albeit unevenly, seriously on all sections of society. Demoralisation extends beyond looking at what no longer ...

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

In many ways that sense of hopelessness, the sense that things will not get better and will get worse, that sense of despair is borne out by statistics, whether in the fate of the falling rand, for the economy as a whole, healthcare, crime, education and collapse of state institutions, and audi...

On the Kalven Report, academic freedom, and the limits of institutional neutrality