John Pilger
- 02 Jul 2008
ByJohn PilgerIsrael’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern, saysJohn Pilger
- 01 Jun 2008ByJohn Pilger
The renewal of Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest casts shame on the Burmese junta’s western sponsors, writes John Pilger.
- 12 Mar 2008ByJohn Pilger
This illegal incarceration should be a global cause celebre, but instead there is a shameful silence, writes John Pilger.
- 14 Feb 2008ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger describes how the Palestinian breakout of Gaza offers inspiration for people struggling to bring down the new Berlin Walls all over the world.
- 28 Jan 2008ByJohn Pilger
The death of Suharto is a reminder of the west’s ignoble role in propping up a murderous regime, writes John Pilger.
- 09 Jan 2008ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger describes how the invasion of Afghanistan, which was widely supported in the West as a ‘good war’ and justifiable response to 9/11, was actually planned months before 9/11 and is the latest instalment of ‘a great game’.
- 18 Dec 2007ByJohn Pilger
Blair and his cult have wrecked the very beliefs millions thought they were voting for. The time for direct action is now, writes John Pilger.
- 17 Dec 2007ByJohn Pilger
An organisation seeking to promote shared Anglo-American “values” of rapacious power and wealth to upcoming leaders in British society appears to have a worrying amount of influence, writes John Pilger.
- 13 Dec 2007ByJohn Pilger
The values we share with America are those of rapacious power and wealth, writes John Pilger.
- 15 Nov 2007ByJohn Pilger
Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq, writes John Pilger – a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced.
- 27 Oct 2007ByJohn Pilger
Addressing a London meeting, ‘Freedom Writ Large’, organised by PEN and the Writers Network of Burma, John Pilger pays tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and the writers of Burma, ‘the bravest of the brave’, and describes the hypocrisy of Western leaders who claim to back their struggle for freedom.
- 06 Sep 2007ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger describes the parallel worlds of the great “unmentionable”, class, in modern Britain: in the streets and in the media.
- 23 Aug 2007ByJohn Pilger
Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now, writes John Pilger, the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and will not be silenced.
- 09 Aug 2007ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger looks forward to the arrival of Bill Clinton in London where an “audience” with him will cost up to £799 a head. In examining Clinton’s liberal credentials and comparing them to George W. Bush’s record, Pilger illuminates what Hillary Clinton might offer America and the world as the first female president.
- 26 Jul 2007ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger appllies to current events Orwell’s description in 1984 of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how “we” are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
- 20 Jul 2007ByJohn Pilger
John Pilger addressed the Socialism 2007 conference in Chicago on 16 June. He spoke about what Edward Bernays called the “invisible government which is the true ruling power” – the media – and how propaganda so often disguises itself as journalism.
- 05 Jul 2007ByJohn Pilger
Just as the London bombs in the summer of 2005 were Blair’s bombs, writes John Pilger, the inevitable consequence of his government’s lawless attack on Iraq, so the potential bombs in the summer of 2007 are Brown’s bombs.
- 10 Jun 2007ByDemocracy Now | John Pilger
John Pilger joins Democracy Now! for the hour to play excerpts of his documentaries and speak of the struggles he has covered.
- 06 Jun 2007ByJohn Pilger
An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as “illegal, immoral and unwinnable” which, he says, is “the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers”.
- 10 May 2007ByJohn Pilger
No wonder “Washington-besotted” Gordon Brown is attracted to the politics of the opportunist Robert Kennedy, writes John Pilger.