John Pilger looks at the British-American Project for the Successor Generation, a little known organisation dedicated to promoting “shared values” through its members working in politics, the defence establishment and the media
John Pilger describes the warnings of genocide in Gaza, and the suffering of 1.4 million Palestinians living a “life in a cage” as the world looks on. Just as once a Nazi concentration camp inmate described the Germans who watched, “looking from the side”
Written shortly before the invasion of Iraq, John Pilger’s observations are more relevant now than ever
News that doesn’t make the front pages or the BBC bulletins is ‘slow news’. For example, resistance to foreign power by the Palestinians, ordinary Iraqis and Afghans is ‘slow news’ while the internecine machinations of Bush and Blair is ‘regular news’
As the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq now unravels, the forgotten disaster in Afghanistan, the first “victory” in the “war on terror”, is perhaps an even more shocking testament to power
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”
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
Far from being a paragon of journalistic integrity, the BBC has a history of suspending its impartiality whenever the establishment is threatened
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
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?
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
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