Petraeus! Is Baghdad Burning?

“Journalists ought to be agents of truth, not courtiers of power. I believe a fifth estate is possible, the product of a people's movement that monitors, deconstructs, and counters the corporate media. . . . The challenge for the rest of us is to lift this subjugated knowledge from out of the underground and take it to ordinary people.”
John Pilger, speaking at Socialism 2007, June 30, 2007