JOHN PILGER AND THE ‘THOUGHT-FREE’ TEMPLATE
John Pilger This week there were two articles in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ space, one by John Pilger, [1] the other by Volodymyr Ishchenko [2] respecting the situation in Ukraine. Reading both pieces one enters two very separate worlds. Pilger’s world a paranoid vision of an all-powerful evil American Empire, ably assisted by its European allies, that pulls strings that stretch across the planet, manipulating proxies from Taiwan to Tirana. The Ukraine being the latest theatre of the American struggle for world hegemony. It is a world view barely distinguishable from that of Alex Jones, renowned conspiracy theorist. [3] Thus we have John Pilger on the Maiden protests in Kiev and across the Ukraine. ‘In February, the US mounted one of its proxy "colour" coups against the elected government of Ukraine; the shock troops were fascists...’ Leaving aside the slur against the Maiden activists, -yes far right groups were involved, yet those from countries with...