John, you are not improving with age but you are always a joy to read ,particularly over a coffee , in the morning.

Strangely , I agree with you over two things ( I must be getting older too ! ) firstly Obama is a shocker as a President . He is in the Carter class.

Secondly,I agree with you, over the bombing of Serbia.

Rest assured , John , My reasons for agreeing are results based only , not on how we each arrived at the same conclusion.

Keep up your weird work and remember those American Capitalists are under your bed.

Yes John, Now that the Japs have bombed Pearl and the Frogs have pulled out of Vietnam, we have no other choice than get stalled assembly lines up and running at full speed once again, to churn out tanks, bombs, guns, ships, subs and warplanes!

And as you suspected, the politicians are once again treating Joe public like the proverbial mushroom!

Don't forget to take your meds there's a good boy!

Look, If you want out? I'll turn my torch on and you can slid down the beam?
Oops, bugger.
Alan B.

All pretty true...with a slant towards anti American. I'm personally not a viewer of events from Pilgers angle (necessarily), but the vacuume for world dominance created in 1945, at the conclusion of WW11, was aptly filled by the USA. nobody should expect this achievement to be easily wrested from them!

I agree with the American view that China is a rising threat, and I support whatever the do to keep that one down and under control...as opposed to the treterous Australian Government which has rolled over to the Chinese, as Chinese investment in Australia reaches staggering preportions, and amounts to a purchased take over of this country!

First of all, the idea of silencing the braying U.S. is a pipe-dream!

Second of all, the expectation of the U.S. doing anything else beyond seeking world hegemony using military power is fanciful.

At the current rate, America will gain military control of Australia within the next three weeks. When Trump becomes the leader of the world it will implode within six weeks.

John, keep up your good work! There a handful of intelligent Australians still left but their numbers are few and their decline rapid!

Australians, like Americans, will never become a master race!

May the end come quickly!

and most of the remaining two thirds of UN member countries have felt the hands of communism at their throats since 1917 and most have luckily been able to break free in one way or another. Just to understand what communism did in one small part of Australian life in one small part of our history read Hal Colbatch's book on the union movement's sabotage of the Australian war effort on our ports during WW2.

Pilger's view of world history is so distorted and so inaccurate that it only makes sense who you realise he is trying to destroy democracy as we know it in countries like Australia and the US. No one denies that our democracies can't be improved but Pilger goes many steps beyond improvement and wants replacement, except that his OLO articles don't make clear what he would replace our democractic systems of government with.

To be honest, I don't see the point of this article as it is nothing more than a largely irrelevant rant against aspects of history which need to never be forgotten but which do not justify the type of revolutionary political changes that Pilger seems to want.

With Trump as President Pilger will be in red heaven. But time to use OLO to sell a new book.

His "About the Author...A Secret Country, his best-selling history of Australia published 20 years ago, remains in print (Vintage Books)"

is sadly aging.

A new book "Secret Trump World" awaits. Profits for Pilger?