My interview on Freedomain Radio from September 27th, 2009. I've added a quick introduction about the discussion and about my thoughts on Freedomain Radio.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake "nuclear threat", with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people.
(ABOVE: There's that tree I'm always talking about)
Topic:
Daniel Lakemacher (warisimmoral.com) joins me to discuss obedience. He also shares his personal story of how he freed himself (within the last year) from three types of crippling obedience training - public education, religion and military.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
(ABOVE: There's that tree I'm always talking about)Topic: Daniel Lakemacher (warisimmoral.com) joins me to discuss obedience. He also shares his personal story of how he freed himself (within the last year) from three types of crippling obedience training - public education, religion and military.Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
(ABOVE: There's that tree I'm always talking about)
Topic:
Daniel Lakemacher (warisimmoral.com) joins me to discuss obedience. He also shares his personal story of how he freed himself (within the last year) from three types of crippling obedience training - public education, religion and military.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
The first in a series of episodes aimed at detailing and dismantling specific elements of the destructive hidden curriculum in public education.
Topic:
An experience I had with students last Saturday led to a web of ideas about the problem of obedience training and about the philosophical path toward the solution...
The effect of this obedience training on 3 Values:
Reason, Purpose and Self-Esteem
“There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.” -Joao Coutinho
The first in a series of episodes aimed at detailing and dismantling specific elements of the destructive hidden curriculum in public education.Topic: An experience I had with students last Saturday led to a web of ideas about the problem of obedience training and about the philosophical path toward the solution...The effect of this obedience training on 3 Values:Reason, Purpose and Self-Esteem“There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.” -Joao CoutinhoPlease visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
The first in a series of episodes aimed at detailing and dismantling specific elements of the destructive hidden curriculum in public education.
Topic:
An experience I had with students last Saturday led to a web of ideas about the problem of obedience training and about the philosophical path toward the solution...
The effect of this obedience training on 3 Values:
Reason, Purpose and Self-Esteem
“There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.” -Joao Coutinho
There’s a worldwide debate over the “legality” of Death Penalty, Execution or Capital Punishment as it is referred to in the different legal systems. There are people and organizations who support capital punishment and even with increasing its rates and …
(Introduction to the Hidden Lessons of School)
Topic:
Introducing the three aims of public education:
blind obedience, assimilation, and the surrender of self-ownership
The Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the Cave
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
(Introduction to the Hidden Lessons of School)Topic: Introducing the three aims of public education: blind obedience, assimilation, and the surrender of self-ownershipThe Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the CaveWhat if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
(Introduction to the Hidden Lessons of School)
Topic:
Introducing the three aims of public education:
blind obedience, assimilation, and the surrender of self-ownership
The Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the Cave
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger analyses the impact of 'Blair's wars' on the Labour Party and its historic convergence with the Tories into a single ideology state.
“If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is a part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA. If a Jew needs a liver, can you …
A Young Person's Guide to Politics III(Conclusion)
Topic:
A comparison between a cluster of degrading and crippling ideas (referenced throughout the show as the "Authoritarian Absurdities") which I believe are prerequisites for embracing the political process and...The Philosophy of Liberty, based on the principles of self-ownership and property rights.
A brief discussion of popular rationalizations for these absurdities and my rebuttals.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics III(Conclusion)Topic: A comparison between a cluster of degrading and crippling ideas (referenced throughout the show as the "Authoritarian Absurdities") which I believe are prerequisites for embracing the political process and...The Philosophy of Liberty, based on the principles of self-ownership and property rights.A brief discussion of popular rationalizations for these absurdities and my rebuttals.Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics III(Conclusion)
Topic:
A comparison between a cluster of degrading and crippling ideas (referenced throughout the show as the "Authoritarian Absurdities") which I believe are prerequisites for embracing the political process and...The Philosophy of Liberty, based on the principles of self-ownership and property rights.
A brief discussion of popular rationalizations for these absurdities and my rebuttals.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger describes the suppression of facts behind the furore over the "compassionate" release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. He writes that Megrahi was "in effect blackmailed by the governments of Scotland and England" so that it would not be revealed in his appeal that he had been framed for a crime he did not commit.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics II
Topic:
Continued explanation of why I am against political solutions for education or anything else, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. Further explanation of the political process in the United States. Shocking comparison between the government and the mafia.
I also talk about Ron Paul's principles compared to other politicians, but let's be clear: a Ron Paul Presidency would solve nothing. (See article by Per Bylund below)
A Young Person's Guide to Politics II Topic: Continued explanation of why I am against political solutions for education or anything else, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. Further explanation of the political process in the United States. Shocking comparison between the government and the mafia.I also talk about Ron Paul's principles compared to other politicians, but let's be clear: a Ron Paul Presidency would solve nothing. (See article by Per Bylund below)Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics II
Topic:
Continued explanation of why I am against political solutions for education or anything else, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. Further explanation of the political process in the United States. Shocking comparison between the government and the mafia.
I also talk about Ron Paul's principles compared to other politicians, but let's be clear: a Ron Paul Presidency would solve nothing. (See article by Per Bylund below)
A Young Person's Guide to Politics I
Topic: Why I am against political solutions for education, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. To me, that sounds like a myth that came out of the system, like bears spreading rumors about staying still when you encounter bears (it's easier for them to eat you that way).
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics I
Topic: Why I am against political solutions for education, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. To me, that sounds like a myth that came out of the system, like bears spreading rumors about staying still when you encounter bears (it's easier for them to eat you that way).
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
A Young Person's Guide to Politics ITopic: Why I am against political solutions for education, AKA using the system to change the system by working within the system. To me, that sounds like a myth that came out of the system, like bears spreading rumors about staying still when you encounter bears (it's easier for them to eat you that way).Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger recalls his undercover reporting from East Timor and reveals that a major new movie, Balibo, perpetuates the cover-up of the role played western governments in the genocial invasion of East Timor by Indonesia and the Australian government's part in the murder of its own journalists.
Topic:
Central Planning in Education and Beyond
What if people tolerated the same system for their food as they did for their education?
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
Topic:
Central Planning in Education and Beyond
What if people tolerated the same system for their food as they did for their education?
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
Topic:Central Planning in Education and BeyondWhat if people tolerated the same system for their food as they did for their education?Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger asks his readers to set aside the usual summer holiday reading lists and reach for books that help us make sense of extraordinary times and to resist our "training" to make war.
Introduction:
Explanation of the title, "School Sucks" and subtitle "The END of Public Education." Who I am, what I'm doing and why. This is not a show about public school reform, because that would suck nearly as much as school.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
Introduction:
Explanation of the title, "School Sucks" and subtitle "The END of Public Education." Who I am, what I'm doing and why. This is not a show about public school reform, because that would suck nearly as much as school.
Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
Introduction:Explanation of the title, "School Sucks" and subtitle "The END of Public Education." Who I am, what I'm doing and why. This is not a show about public school reform, because that would suck nearly as much as school.Please visit the website for full show notes, references and links.
John Pilger describes "an iceberg of relentless inhumanity" beneath the Guardian's revelations about illegal phone tapping at Murdoch's Sunday tabloid and the impact of his empire in Britain and all over the world.
John Pilger argues that while liberals now celebrate America's return to its "moral ideals", they are silent on a venerable taboo. This is the true role of Americanism: an ideology distinguished by its myths and the denial that it exists. President Obama is its embodiment.
A transcription of John Pilger’s address to Socialism 2009 in San Francisco
John Pilger reflects on the idea of a journey, and wonders, like TS Eliot, if the point of travelling is also to find out where you came from. However, the unsuspected and tragic can change everything.
John Pilger de-codes the "historic" speech President Obama made in Cairo "reaching out to the Muslim world", according to the BBC: in reality showing the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal.
John Pilger describes how the current scandal of MPs' tax evasion and phantom mortgages conceals a deeper corruption that is traced back to the political monoculture of the United States.
John Pilger describes the catastrophe facing the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, whose distant voices have appealed to the world for almost as long as the Palestinians.
John Pilger describes the power of advertising - from the effects of smoking to politics - as he reaches behind the facade of of the first 100 days President Barack Obama.
John Pilger describes a personal loss as the quality of Australia's once distinguished wine declines - a lesson for others as the greed of "cash cropping" threatens a nation's food supply.
John Pilger describes a worldwide movement that is 'challenging the once-sacrosanct notion that imperial politicians can destroy countless lives and retain an immunity from justice'. In Tony Blair's case, justice inches closer.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the basic freedoms being lost in Britain as the "national security state", imported from the United States by New Labour, takes effect.
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger calls on his long experience with Cambodia's struggles in lamenting missing faces in the dock at the UN-backed trial of crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period. Where are Pol Pot's accomplices and collaborators in the West?
John Pilger describes how censorship in Hollywood works in the age of the 'war on terror'. Unlike the crude days of the cold war, it's by omission and 'introspective dross'.
John Pilger borrows from Lord West of Spithead to deconstruct current mythology, such as the 'impartiality' of the BBC and the 'radical changes' implemented by President Obama.
John Pilger writes that "as deserving as Tony Blair is of his George W. Bush Freedom Medal, others cry out for a place in his company". Following Israel's assault on Gaza, he offers two additional nominees.
Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the 'why' of Israel's bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza - an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel's right to exist.
The festive edition of the New Statesman offers a menu of good news to celebrate in 2009. John Pilger adds his own wish list.
John Pilger reckons 'Groundhog Day', the black comedy about time repeating itself, might be a parable for the Age of Obama - as the president-elect's major appointments turn out to be almost totally retro, without a single figure representing those who voted for him.
