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Articles Written by: JOHN PILGER
Who is This?
John Pilger is "a renowned journalist and documentary film-maker. A war correspondent and ZNet Commentator, his writings have appeared in numerous magazines, and newspapers such as the Daily Mirror, the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and other newspapers and periodicals around the world. His books include Heroes (2001) Hidden Agendas (1998) and Distant Voices (1994), Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs (2004)."
Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious trail ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
11 Mar 2010
I phoned Rami Elhanan the other day. We had not spoken for six years and much has happened in Israel and Palestine. Rami is an Israeli graphic designer who lives with his family in Jerusalem. His father survived Auschwitz. His grandparents and six ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
25 Feb 2010
Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
11 Feb 2010
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
28 Jan 2010
Palestinian resistance to the theft of their country reached a critical moment in 2001 when Israel was identified as an apartheid state at a United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa. To Nelson Mandela, justice for the Palestinians ...
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
30 Dec 2009
Giving evidence before the arms-to-Iraq enquiry, Higson was the only British official commended by Lord Justice Scott for telling the truth. The price he paid was the loss of his health and marriage and constant surveillance by spooks. He ended up ...
The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media
I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day, only to learn that he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honourable ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
10 Dec 2009
Kevin Rudd's apology to the Aborigines has changed little. White Australia must offer its first people universal land rights and a proper share of resources
I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, silhouettes framed in beach ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
26 Nov 2009
The theft of West Papua's mineral wealth must end. The province's courageous resistance movement deserves nothing less
When General Suharto, the west's man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered "a gleam of light in Asia", rejoiced ...
From JOHN PILGER,
New Statesman,
12 Nov 2009
