在近代最严重的突发卫生事件中，由于国家卫生局推迟了超过400万例外科手术，英国宣布了所谓的国防支出，创纪录地增加了165亿英镑。
Britain’s Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice. The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they “died in operational theatre
约翰·皮尔格（John Pilger）观看了伦敦老贝利公共画廊的朱利安·阿桑奇（Julian Assange）的引渡审判。他最近发表了自己的见解。
John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia:
Q: Having watched Julian Assange’s trial firsthand, can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court?
在报道了朱利安·阿桑奇（Julian Assange）的漫长而史诗般的考验之后，约翰·皮尔格（John Pilger）于9月7日在伦敦中央刑事法院外发表了这一讲话，当时维基解密编辑的引渡听证会进入了最后阶段。
When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.” I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way. Assange believes that journalists are the agents of
自广岛以来的75年中，最持久的谎言是投下了原子弹以结束太平洋战争并挽救生命。 75年后，我们再次对自己撒谎。
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I
1975年11月11日，时任澳大利亚总理的高夫·惠特兰（Gough Whitlam）将中央情报局在他的国家的秘密存在告知国会，直到最后，他失业。
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer "personal" and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Secret letters written in 1975 by the Queen and her man in Canberra, Sir John Kerr, can now be released by
约翰·皮尔格（John Pilger）论澳大利亚对朱利安·阿桑奇（Julian Assange）的背叛，该国对英国和美国帝国的服务以及新闻自由的命运。
On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death. I know
Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the “Assange effect”. It is as if the struggle of truth-tellers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is now a warning to them: that the thugs who
