The new international media for a changing world – The new international media for a changing world
FERNANDO IÑIGUEZ
“We were in the church praying early in the morning, and all of a sudden we started to hear airplane engine noises and bombing noises. The nun and I ran to the confessional to protect ourselves, but my other sister, Conchita, did not have time. She saw how some rubble from the roof of the temple and some beams fell on her head, leaving her body hidden under the rubble. We never saw her again, not even dead."
JOHN PILGER
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious chuckle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We've become friends, and I've sat in many a courtroom listening to state tribunes try to silence him and his moral revolution in journalism.
CJ POLYCHRONIOU
Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited academics in the world and considered by millions of people as an international intellectual treasure, maintains a prodigious lucidity at the age of 95. In this interview -published in collaboration with Truthout- the eminent professor flatly rejects the idea that a stronger NATO is needed instead of a negotiated solution to the conflict in Ukraine and warns against the current strategy of "much worse" and the increasing risk of escalation towards nuclear war.
DAVID BOLLERO
The official story presents the US as the power that tried to liberate the Afghan people; however, the balance of these 20 years shows a clear failure. The question that arises is whether at some point the Afghan people were really better off thanks to the US and, more specifically, women, who is the group on which they wanted to focus.
The answer to this question is offered to us by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad in The Withdrawal, a book that compiles many of the conversations that the American philosopher and the Indian historian and journalist have had for more than three decades.
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