Real journalism is being criminalized by thugs in plain sight, says John Pilger. Dissent has become an indulgence. And the British elite has abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice. By John Pilger
Source: JOHN PILGER: Assange Arrest a Warning from History – Consortiumnews
John Pilger: This time it’s Syria, last time it was Iraq. Obama chose to accept the entire Pentagon of the Bush era: its wars and war crimes
“In Britain, the distractions of the fakery of image and identity politics have not quite succeeded. A stirring has begun, though people of conscience should hurry. The judges at Nuremberg were succinct: ‘Individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity.’ The ordinary people of Syria, and countless others, and our own self-respect, deserve nothing less now.”