Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe. - John Pilger

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

Kim Hill: All this time, then, the United Nations and weapons inspectors have been some kind of puppets of the US.
Pilger: Are you saying that?
Hill: I am asking you whether that is what you are implying?
Pilger: That's a leading question, I wouldn't ...
Hill: How would you describe the activities of the United Nations up until this point?
Pilger: Which area of the United Nations? It's a very big organisation.

A pandemic has been declared, but not for the 24,600 who die every day from unnecessary starvation, and not for 3,000 children who die every day from preventable malaria, and not for the 10,000 people who die every day because they are denied publicly-funded healthcare, and not for the hundreds of Venezuelans and Iranians who die every day because America's blockade denies them life-saving medicines, and not for the hundreds of mostly children bombed or starved to death every day in Yemen, in a war supplied and kept going, profitably, by America and Britain. Before you panic, consider them.