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John Pilger
Australian born, John Pilger is a journalist and documentary film maker, with many years of experience in the world of politics and international conflict
By John Pilger on August 6, 2006
Propaganda and the hypocritical abuse of language has reached a nadir in recent weeks. An Israeli soldier belonging to an invasion force was captured and held, legitimately, as a prisoner of war. Sparking further slaughter in reprisal for his “kidnapping”
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By John Pilger on June 18, 2006
A 2004 British Medical Journal reported that, “Two-thirds of the 621 children killed (by Israelis 2000-2004), died from small arms fire, directed in over half the cases to the head, neck and chest – the sniper’s wound.”
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By John Pilger on May 9, 2006
The American public is being prepared. If the attack on Iran does come, there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no truth, writes John Pilger
Posted in Iran
By John Pilger on March 28, 2006
Pick up the Sunday papers and there they are, egocentrics of little harsh experience, other than a Saturday out shopping. Turn on the television and there they are again, every night, intoning not so much their love of war as their sales pitch for it
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on January 10, 2006
A man emerged from the fog, carrying a small wreath. “I intend to place this at the Cenotaph and read out the names of the dead in Iraq,” he said. With his head bowed, he laid the wreath. 30 years earlier I’d seen something similar outside the Kremlin
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on November 30, 2005
In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the conventional sources of news and information and to the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power
Posted in The Media
By John Pilger on August 23, 2005
Muslim people all over Britain report the presence of police “video vans” cruising their streets, filming everyone. “We have become like ghettoes under siege,” said one man too frightened to be named.
Posted in London Terror Attacks
By John Pilger on July 12, 2005
The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London created the fleeting illusion that all was well, regardless of messy events in a faraway Iraq. Yet the bombings on Thursday brought it home, writes John Pilger, along with more of Tony Blair’s unctuous lies
Posted in London Terror Attacks
By John Pilger on July 9, 2005
The illusion of an anti-establishment crusade led by pop stars — a cultivated, controlling image of rebellion — serves to dilute a great political movement of anger. In summit after summit, not a single significant “promise” of the G8 has been kept
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on June 8, 2005
I described how journalists often produced veiled propaganda for Western power, writes John Pilger, by accepting “our” version or by omitting the unpalatable. Predictably perhaps my comments did not appear
Posted in The Media
By John Pilger on March 30, 2005
You may think that you are a nobody, says John Pilger, but take heart in the fact that power-mongers such as Bush and Blair are actually afraid of you and your kind
Posted in Miscellaneous
By John Pilger on March 21, 2005
The UK government finds it convenient to blame Colombia’s huge murder rate on the drugs trade. The reality is that most of the killings are being done by a regime it supports
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on March 16, 2005
Far from being a paragon of journalistic integrity, the BBC has a history of suspending its impartiality whenever the establishment is threatened
Posted in The Media
By John Pilger on March 16, 2005
Far from being a bastion of journalistic integrity, the BBC has a long history of conveniently forgetting basic journalistic honesty whenever the established order is threatened
Posted in The Media
By John Pilger on March 9, 2005
A member of the public asked: “Bearing in mind that tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children have died as a result of the invasion of Iraq, how do you sleep at night, Mr. Blair?” When did you hear a journalist ask such a pointed question?
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on February 28, 2005
John Pilger reports on the steady and ongoing genocide in Iraq that until recently the mainstream media have largely ignored
Posted in Depleted Uranium
By John Pilger on November 20, 2004
On 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld, having failed to act against those who had just attacked the US, told his aides to prepare an attack on Iraq when the evidence was non-existent. 18 months later, the invasion of Iraq, based on lies now documented, took place
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on November 2, 2004
The headline originally read “Denouncing Americanism” but we changed it. For the problem is not with America or its people but with the forces that use and exploit US power for their own ends
Posted in Miscellaneous
By John Pilger on October 25, 2004
No matter who wins the forthcoming presidential election, writes John Pilger, the years ahead are shaping up to be some of the most dangerous in history
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on October 4, 2004
For nearly 10 years the mainstream media was virtually silent about the Anglo-American embargo on Iraq. It is the reason why Iraqi’s are so angry with the current occupiers, the crippling sanctions they had imposed prevented Iraqis from toppling Saddam
Posted in The Media