...like a great power scorned. The siege of Julian Assange is a farce. The Americans are pursuing him because WikiLeaks exposed their epic crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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It's celebrity time again. The Golden Globes have been, and the Oscars are coming. Time to award those whose ubiquitous promotion demands recognition
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The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children.
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Understanding the latest leaks is understanding the rise of a new fascism
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The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital
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A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
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Look on the Wikileaks site and read a Ministry of Defence document that describes the “threat” of real journalism. And so it should be: a threat. State stenography is not journalism.
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Put aside the reading lists in the newspaper review pages, with their clubbable hauteur, and read, or read again, books which help make sense of extraordinary times
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The word that once described it, class, is unmentionable, just as imperialism used to be. Thanks to George W Bush, the latter is back in the lexicon in Britain, if not at the BBC. But Class is different. It runs too deep
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It as if our long trail of blood is forever invisible, intellectually and morally. Certainly, it is time those who run media colleges began to alert future journalists to their insidious grooming.
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