The role of respectable journalism in western state crimes — from Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan to Libya – remains taboo. It is currently deflected by the media theatre of the Leveson enquiry into phone hacking
Russia Today talks to John Pilger about the media, the Internet, Iran and Israel
From Gordon Brown’s “repulsion” to Barack Obama’s “outrage”, the theatre of lies and hypocrisy over Megrahi’s release is dutifully attended by those who call themselves journalists
John Pilger reflects on how Tony Blair and his cronies paved the way for the invasion of Iraq and how the corporate media assisted
Barack Obama, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace prize, has approved a military budget exceeding that of any year since the end of the Second World War while presiding over a new kind of domestic repression
John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran with how Saddam Hussien’s fabled Weapons of Mass Destruction led to the invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people
Iran’s crime is its independence. Having thrown out America’s favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control
The theater of lies and hypocrisy over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic
John Pilger’s brief, incisive and penetrating assessment
John Pilger describes how the current scandal involing British MPs’ tax evasion is the latest example of a deeper, more widespread culture of deceit
All that was hidden shall be revealed, it is said, and the secrets of the war in Yugoslavia are finally emerging: telling us more about how the modern world is really run
Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern