John Pilger
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him."
Articles by john pilger
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Middle East
From triumph to torture
- 03 July 2008
How Palestinian journalist and NS contributor Mohammed Omer left Gaza to receive an award only to be brutalised on his return by the Israeli security organisation Shin Bet
Media
Fabricate that fear
- 26 June 2008
- 74 comments
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
Media
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- 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
North America
After Bobby Kennedy
- 29 May 2008
- 74 comments
Bobby Kennedy's campaign is the model for Barack Obama's current bid to be the Democratic nominee for the White House. Both offer a false hope that they can bring peace and racial harmony to all Americans, writes John Pilger
Media
Destroying the best of Britain
- 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
World Affairs
Latin America: the attack on democracy
- 24 April 2008
- 88 comments
John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor
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South Africa's new struggle
- 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
Asia
One of the true heroes
- 27 March 2008
- 4 comments
Philip Jones Griffiths was the greatest photographer and one of finest journalists of his generation
Politics
Australia's hidden empire
- 06 March 2008
- 13 comments
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
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Catching the last tram home
- 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


