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• Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue
  

  John Pilger warns that same-sex marriage, now embraced by Barack Obama and his vice-president, is deployed as a distraction from issues of life and death and meaningful justice, such as those illuminated by the case of Bradley Manning.

  
  
  
• You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
  

  

  John Pilger describes the politicising of the law in western democracies and the emergence of increasingly draconian police powers: the corollary of a contrived state of...
  
  

• East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
  

  John Pilger returns to the once silent issue of East Timor, a tiny country rich in resources and ravaged by its neighbour, Indonesia, with the help of the Indonesian dictators western sponsors. And yet East Timor broke free. President Obama's threats to China once again highlight the undeclared power of...
  
  

• Up, up and away: how money power works Down Under
  

  John Pilger reports on an Australian icon, the the world's oldest and safest international airline, and what happened when global finance took over.

  
  
  
• The dirty war on WikiLeaks is now trial by media in Sweden
  

  In an article for the Guardian in London, John Pilger describes the attacks on WikiLeaks and the smearing of its editor Julian Assange that now permeate much of the Swedish media. A decision by the UK Supreme Court on Assange's extradition to Sweden is now imminent, over which hangs the...
  
  

• Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism
  

  John Pilger asks: What has happened to the politics of modern feminism? Has feminism forgotten its roots and been appropriated by its natural enemies? The rise of Australia's first female prime minister helps us understand.

  
  
  
• It's time we recognised the Blair government's criminality
  

  John Pilger reviews the paperback of Gareth Peirce's 'Dispatches from the Dark Side: on Torture and the Death of Justice'. Peirce, Britain's pre-eminent human rights lawyer, argues that the Labour government of Tony Blair, in its pursuit of rapacious war and in support of policies of rendition and torture, was...
  
  

• The Assange case means we are all suspects now
  

  As the Supreme Court in Britain hears the Julian Assange case, John Pilger examines the implications of an intensified US campaign to silence WikiLeaks and prosecute Assange for a crime that doesn't exist, threatening the principle of free speech and all unfettered journalism.

  
  
  
• The world war on democracy
  

  

  John Pilger argues that, behind its democratic facade, the true nature of western political culture is that of American-led violence and ruthlessness in the cause of...
  
  

• In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring
  

  John Pilger describes his return to India, now promoted as an "economic tiger" and a "global leader", where the reality is very different for the lives of those beyond the advertisers' hoardings.