THE NEW COLD WAR HAS TURNED JOURNALISM INTO SATIRE

THE NEW COLD WAR HAS TURNED JOURNALISM INTO SATIRE

24 December 2018

In two separate major interviews - the first published in India's leading news magazine, Frontline, the second broadcast on RT - John Pilger describes the rise of a second cold war and the conversion of much of journalism to unconscious satire - 'beckoning a real, unreported danger'.

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The salacious demolition job on Martha Gellhorn cannot obscure a remarkable human being The other day, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was awarded in honour of the great American reporter who lived in this country until she died three years ago. Gellhorn adhered to no consensus of the kind that shapes and distorts so much journalism. She regarded governments, indeed all authority, as her professional enemies, and their propaganda as "official drivel".

The "secret" war which has seen a 300 per cent increase in bombing raids on Iraq The American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated their "patrols" over Iraq to an all-out assault on both military and civilian targets.

Phoney War The US is planning a massive intervention in Colombia under the pretext of fighting the 'narco-guerrilla'.

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