If you don’t submit to control, if you’re a radical, you’re less likely to be loved. You’re not fitting in with society; you’re viewed as an outsider. There are a lot of social prohibitions about the outsider and the person who’s going to upset things. From the time we’re very young, we’re taught to worship authority, basically, because that’s our key to survival as young … [Read more...]
John Pilger: Real Journalism
Journalism is meant to be about truth. And that perhaps is the most important truth in the world today. John Pilger says journalism is meant to be about truth. In this video he reviews his career over more than 50 years as a campaigning journalist, filmmaker and author. Journalism, he says, has a part to play on behalf of humanity. But too many journalists and journalistic … [Read more...]
Empire of Secrets
As revelations of systemic snooping continue to hit the headlines, who is watching the watchers? As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised transparency and open government yet his administration is one of the most closed governments in US history, described as being worse than even the Nixon administration. The technology and information revolution allows the … [Read more...]
Counter-Intelligence: I – The Company
It is no secret that CIA is engaged in criminal activities around the world, some of which are quite deadly, some of which are quite provocative in the sense of laying the groundwork for large scale military conflict, and it’s happening in a lot of countries. This is not unique to the United States. The United States learned some of this from the British who learned it in turn … [Read more...]
This Is What Winning Looks Like – A Movie About the War in Afghanistan
MY AFGHANISTAN WAR DIARY By Ben Anderson I didn’t plan on spending six years covering the war in Afghanistan. I went there in 2007 to make a film about the vicious fighting between undermanned, underequipped British forces and the Taliban in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province. But I became obsessed with what I witnessed there—how different it was from the … [Read more...]