John Pilger describes the latest chapter in the extraordinary story of the ‘mass kidnapping’ of the people of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean, British citizens expelled from their homeland to make way for an American military base. On 22 October, Britain’s highest court of appeal, the Law Lords, demonstrated how British power works at its apex by handing down a transparently political judgement that dismissed the Magna Carta and banned an entire nation from ever going home.
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John Pilger describes the truth and lies of great power as practised by British “diplomacy”, and the prospects for peace and order following the US presidential election on November 4.
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In an article for the Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, John Pilger describes the ‘social and economic catastrophe’ that replaced the African National Congress’s ‘unbreakable’ promise’ to end the poverty of the majority.
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John Pilger describes the ‘great silence’ over the annual British party conferences as politicians and their club of commentators say nothing about a war provoked and waged across the world the responsibility for which lies close at hand.
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John Pilger describes the insidious militarisng of Britain as the effects of two colonial wars and the cover-up of atrocities come home.