CC Newsletter 13 Sept - John Pilger - Silencing The Lambs, How Propaganda Works
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In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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Silencing The Lambs, How Propaganda Works
by John Pilger
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us
all, if we allow it.
SCO Summit: Xi And Putin Are For A New World Order
by Countercurrents Collective
China is willing to work with Russia to take the global order “in a more just and reasonable direction,” Beijing’s top diplomat said, underscoring the depth of the two nations’ ties.
Queenly Saturation
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Turn on the television. Move to the screen. Switch on the device – if you ever left it off. Queen Elizabeth II may have passed, but she is everywhere in very lively fashion, a spectral manifestation that has utterly controlled large chunks of a transfixed global media system
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas falsely vilified by Zionists over “50 holocausts”
by Dr Gideon Polya
Zionism as frankly espoused by its most prominent advocates for 130 years is genocidal racism, and Nazism without gas chambers but now with 90 nuclear weapons and 6 German-supplied submarines to carry nuclear missiles for scores of nuclear holocausts. Yet defenceless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been falsely and hysterically vilified by the Zionist-subverted West for describing the ongoing Palestinian Genocide as “50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts”.
Inequalities and militarization in USA have led to millions being deprived of basic needs
by Bharat Dogra
The USA poverty level has been often stated to be around 11 per cent of the population, but several independent and credible studies
indicate much higher levels of economic distress. A study by the Urban Institute (UI) in 2018, before the pandemic struck, found that nearly 40 per cent of non-elderly adults and their families struggled to afford at least one basic need for health care, housing, utilities or food in 2017.
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields”: Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
by Stan Cox
The pipeline struggle has brought together communities that rarely find common cause and can often be adversaries. “We really have formed an unlikely alliance,” says Fitil. “A lot of conservative Republicans are joining up with Indigenous folks, and they all are joining up with environmentalists. These people normally don’t get along, they don’t join in anything together. But here they’re really pissed off and joining hand in hand in the struggle against these pipelines.”
Authoritarian ambitions with a democratic interpretation
by Javed Iqbal Wani
The unveiling of the Subhash Chandra Bose statute by the Prime Minister of India marking the inauguration of the ‘Kartavya Path,’ the revamped Central Vista Avenue, has at least three objectives attached to it. One, it allows the BJP to add some momentum for the 2024 elections by staging the arrival of a ‘refreshed’ India. Second, it provides it with an opportunity to make an ideological assertion vis-à-vis history. And third, it steals the limelight from the recently launched ‘Bharat Jodo’ campaign of the Congress party.
A letter to Godard that never reached him
by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
Here is a sad news that Godard is no more.Veteran critic Vidyarthy Chatterjee wrote a letter to Godard after
listening to an interview, where the master confessed that he doesn’t get any Indian films to watch.After Fifty years of pedestrian writing, Vidyarthy Chatterjee wrote his first book and he had sent it across by courier to Switzerland,only to hear back from the Courier company,that pincode or phone number are essential to reach the addressee
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