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John Wight

John Wight is a writer and political commentator whose articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Guardian, the Independent, Counterpunch, American Herald Tribune, the Huffington Post, and RT.

He is also a broadcaster whose interviews and analysis can be viewed and listened to on RT, TRT World, the BBC, and Press TV.

John currently presents Hard Facts - a topical weekly radio show at Sputnik.

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17:18 02.08.2018
With Jeremy Corbyn - Who Will Stand?
The febrile atmosphere whipped up over the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn's alleged anti-Semitism demands a response, and at times like this W.B. Yeats hovers into admonitory view:
13:50 01.08.2018
War With Iran? Seriously, Mr. Trump?
With the war drums beating ever louder in Washington when it comes to Iran, Iranian academic and political analyst, Mohammad Marandi, joins John Wight to offer his expert analysis on Trump's latest volley of incendiary rhetoric, levelled this time against the Islamic Republic and delivered, as is the President's wont, via Twitter
12:55 26.07.2018
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange: 'Never Send to Know For Whom The Bell Tolls'
If reports are to be believed, and the Ecuadorian government is preparing to evict Julian Assange from their embassy in London, where the editor-in-chief of Wikileaks has been holed up since 2012, fighting for the right to political asylum, then his legal and political crucifixion may well now be approaching completion.
11:22 25.07.2018
White Helmets Evacuated From Syria as Western Strategic Objectives Unravel
Former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, joins our host, John Wight, to discuss the significance of the evacuation of hundreds of members of the White Helmets from south western Syria.
17:08 19.07.2018
Does an Elected President or an Unelected Intelligence Community Govern the US?
The madness that gripped liberals and neocons within the Western political, media, and security establishments, over the sight of a US president having the temerity to treat his Russian counterpart – Vladimir Putin – as an equal rather than colonial vassal who knows his place, was and is more pronounced than anyone could have expected.
13:40 18.07.2018
After Helsinki: Russia Must Be Destroyed
The Helsinki summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin should have been hailed as a momentous event, considering the catastrophic state of US-Russia relations. But instead the US President Trump has been branded a traitor by the western media and political class, as John Wight and George Szamuely discuss.
20:12 16.07.2018
The Orange Order in Scotland - Hate Group or Scottish Protestant Fraternity?
On its website, the Orange Order in Scotland describes itself as the country’s ‘oldest and biggest Protestant fraternity…an organization of people bonded together to promote the ideals of our faith’. Others, however, disagree and regard the Orange Order as an organization rooted in religious and cultural supremacy and anti-Irish Catholic bigotry.
12:56 11.07.2018
May's Government Collapsing in Brexit Storm: Second Referendum Looms
At times like this, the Brexit dam having burst and, with it, bursting asunder any lingering hope in the ability of Theresa May’s government to navigate the country out of the Brexit storm that has engulfed it since the 2016 EU referendum, a storm that has intensified into open civil war within the Tory Party, Irish poet W B Yeats looms large.
11:09 11.07.2018
Imperialism on Trial
This week former UK Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, joins us to discuss Imperialism in our time, just as the Imperialism on Trial tour kicks off in the UK.
15:34 05.07.2018
More Than Football, the World Cup Has Been a Celebration of Diversity
Just as it doesn't take a weather man to know which way the wind blows, it doesn't take a ‘Putin apologist’ or a ‘Russian propagandist’ to recognise what by is widely acknowledged – namely that the World Cup in Russia 2018 has exceeded all expectations to the point where it will go down as one the best – if not the best – World Cups in history.
13:50 04.07.2018
World Cup in Russia and Why Football Matters
This week's Hard Facts looks at what is proving to be one of the most memorable World Cups ever, with Moscow-based radio host Alan Moore.
12:47 30.06.2018
UK Complicity in Torture Revealed in New Report: Now What?
The fact that 15 years on from the war in Iraq - resulting in death, destruction and dislocation on a biblical scale - not one person has been prosecuted and held to account in a court of law, surely this stands as an indictment of the rank double standards that underpin the concept of justice in the UK and the US, who were both responsible.
14:12 27.06.2018
Mass Migration, White Supremacy and The Sanctimony of Liberal America
On this week's show Professor Gerald Horne joins John Wight to discuss the immigration scandal engulfing the US at the moment, as they consider what is really behind Trump's zero tolerance policy towards migrants.
20:24 25.06.2018
America's Problem is Not Immigration. America's Problem is White Supremacy
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America [the continent of] with misery in the name of liberty,” said the great 19th century Latin American emancipator, Simon Bolivar, in words that accurately describe the relationship between the US and Latin America to this day.
13:11 20.06.2018
Will an Independent Scotland Rise From the Ashes of Brexit?
The issue of Scottish Independence is now very much back on the table in Scotland, after growing discontent with how the UK government is handling Scotland's concerns over Brexit, culminating last week with MSPs walking out of the UK parliament in protest. To discuss where we are now in the independence campaign, we are joined by Dr Paul Monaghan.

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Authors

John Wight

With Jeremy Corbyn - Who Will Stand?

War With Iran? Seriously, Mr. Trump?

The Crucifixion of Julian Assange: 'Never Send to Know For Whom The Bell Tolls'

White Helmets Evacuated From Syria as Western Strategic Objectives Unravel

Does an Elected President or an Unelected Intelligence Community Govern the US?

After Helsinki: Russia Must Be Destroyed

The Orange Order in Scotland - Hate Group or Scottish Protestant Fraternity?

May's Government Collapsing in Brexit Storm: Second Referendum Looms

Imperialism on Trial

More Than Football, the World Cup Has Been a Celebration of Diversity

World Cup in Russia and Why Football Matters

UK Complicity in Torture Revealed in New Report: Now What?

Mass Migration, White Supremacy and The Sanctimony of Liberal America

America's Problem is Not Immigration. America's Problem is White Supremacy

Will an Independent Scotland Rise From the Ashes of Brexit?

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