Despatches
The John Pilger column, with his searing and inimitable analysis of international issues
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Fabricate that fear
- John Pilger
- 26 June 2008
- 5 comments
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- John Pilger
- 12 June 2008
- 20 comments
Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating bullshit on a grand scale
An award for the voiceless in Gaza
- Mohammed Omer
- 22 May 2008
- 13 comments
My ambition was to get the truth out, not as pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli, but as an independent voice and witness, posing questions
Destroying the best of Britain
- John Pilger
- 08 May 2008
- 9 comments
Watching Durham miners, defeated but unbowed by hunger and debt, march back to the pit in 1985, led by their women, was a glimpse of Britain at its best
South Africa's new struggle
- John Pilger
- 10 April 2008
- 14 comments
The ANC government has allowed the world's most voracious companies to escape reparations for poisoning the land and its people
One of the true heroes
- John Pilger
- 27 March 2008
- 4 comments
Philip Jones Griffiths was the greatest photographer and one of finest journalists of his generation
Iraq's Kurds deserve better neighbours
- Gary Kent
- 28 February 2008
- 23 comments
There is obvious fellow feeling between Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, but the PKK's actions do the Kurds no favours
Catching the last tram home
- John Pilger
- 21 February 2008
- 8 comments
Beyond today's bathers, untanned and often fat, there is a glimpse of the down-at-heel city that Sydney was: the same peeling paint and worried eyes of refugees
The danse macabre of US-style democracy
- John Pilger
- 24 January 2008
- 117 comments
Of the presidential candidates I have interviewed, only George C Wallace, governor of Alabama, spoke the truth
Tainted hands across the water
- John Pilger
- 13 December 2007
- 58 comments
The values we share with America are those of rapacious power and wealth, writes John Pilger


