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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 27, 2004
Don’t be fooled. No matter what the media says or how it is portrayed, between the two candidates, George W. Bush may be the lesser of the two evils
By John Pilger on March 25, 2004
Saddam Hussien’s WMD were a hollow threat that the Anglo-American leadership cynically exploited. According to one senior CIA analyst: “It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, Howard.”
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on February 8, 2004
In the wake of the Hutton fiasco, one truth remains evident: Tony Blair ordered an unprovoked invasion of another country on a totally false pretext, and that lies and deceptions from London and Washington caused the deaths of up to 55,000 Iraqis
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on January 11, 2004
Forget the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr Kelly, writes John Pilger. It will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don’t want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq
Posted in Behind The "News"
By John Pilger on December 6, 2003
Blair must know his game is over. Bush’s reception in Britain demonstrated that; and the CIA has now announced that the Iraqi resistance is “broad, strong and getting stronger”
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on November 22, 2003
John Pilger talks to Anthony Arnove about why the U.S. went to war — and why its colonial occupation is in crisis
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on October 14, 2003
Not before time, it is beginning to dawn on many that they helped install a leader who is a bloody warmonger. In less than five years, Blair has embarked on 4 military campaigns, against countries that posed no real threat to Britain
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on October 1, 2003
Reducing journalism to a branch of corporate and government public relations is the hidden agenda of the media deregulators, in Britain and America
Posted in The Media
By John Pilger on September 17, 2003
The Hutton inquiry is Blair’s best trick so far. For an inquiry into the death of one man, ensures that real questions as to why Blair took Britain into war in the first place, are never asked
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on September 1, 2003
Tony Blair shares responsibility for causing violent death and suffering on a vast scale. Meanwhile, the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances leading to Dr Kelly’s death, is already turning into an exercise in spin
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on August 28, 2003
Tony Blair attacked a country that offered no threat, and helped cause the deaths of thousands of innocent people. The judges at the Nuremberg Tribunal…called this “the gravest of all war crimes”
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on August 28, 2003
Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude, who led British forces into Iraq in 1917, said: “Our armies do not come…as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.” Within three years, 10,000 had died in uprisings against the British occupiers
Posted in Iraq
By John Pilger on August 28, 2003
Unless we apply the lesson “all governments are liars” to our own leaders, British fighter jets and chemical weapons technology will continue to wreck lives all over the world.
Posted in Political Intrigue
By John Pilger on August 28, 2003
America’s two “great victories” since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. Comparisons with Vietnam have been made so often over the years that I hesitate to draw another. However, the similarities are striking
Posted in Iraq