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8. The same Pilger who claimed that Barack Obama is a CIA plant and an Uncle Tom?

Reply to polly7 (Original post)

Sat Feb 16, 2013, 05:21 PM

Feb 2013

Totally credible dude.

Bonus quote for our GLBTQ brothers and sisters:

Legal obstacles should not prevent people from marrying each other, regardless of gender. However, this is a civil and private matter; bourgeois acceptability is not yet a human right. The rights historically associated with marriage are those of property – capitalism itself. Elevating the “right” to marriage above the right to life and justice is as profane as seeking allies among those who deny life and justice to so many, from Afghanistan to Palestine.

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Wikileaks Is A Rare Truth Teller. Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful - Pilger [View all] polly7 Feb 2013 OP

thanks for this article LiberalLovinLug Feb 2013 #1

You're very welcome. polly7 Feb 2013 #11

K&R nt rachel1 Feb 2013 #2

Jemima Khan's recent piece on Assange is worth a read: struggle4progress Feb 2013 #3

I've read it. It got extensive media coverage. nxylas Feb 2013 #6

No, Pilger's bit was published in the Guardian: struggle4progress Feb 2013 #7

Pilger's piece was also published in the New Statesman struggle4progress Feb 2013 #12

I stand corrected nxylas Feb 2013 #13

I see that Wikileaks has just tweeted: "Today marks 800 days of Julian #Assange's detainment struggle4progress Feb 2013 #4

What, exactly, is the "damning, irrefutable evidence that Peirce presented struggle4progress Feb 2013 #5

The same Pilger who claimed that Barack Obama is a CIA plant and an Uncle Tom? geek tragedy Feb 2013 #8

Yeah, it's the same Pilger struggle4progress Feb 2013 #9

On the plus side, no one with any kind of influence on anything cares about John Pilger. nt geek tragedy Feb 2013 #10

I should expect not, given his evident inability to construct a convincing argument and struggle4progress Feb 2013 #15

K&R. Thanks for posting. n/t truth2power Feb 2013 #14

Yes thanks for posting LiberalLovinLug Feb 2013 #16

K&R midnight Feb 2013 #17