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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International Politics
In the Assange case we are all suspects now
- 02 February 2012
- 33 comments
Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state.
Global Issues
The war on democracy
- 19 January 2012
- 67 comments
From the Chagos Islands to Pakistan, innocent civilians are pawns to America, backed by Britain. In our compliant political culture, this deadly game seldom speaks its name.
Asia
Glossy façades can’t hide an Indian spring
- 30 December 2011
- 22 comments
From Jammu Kashmir to Maharashtra, in a land of empty advertising slogans and fantastic wealth that barely conceals vast poverty, you can see the first signs of a popular new uprising.
Middle East
Once again, war is prime time and journalism’s role is taboo
- 01 December 2011
- 68 comments
With Libya recently dealt with ("It worked," said the Guardian), Iran is next, it seems.
International Politics
In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting
- 10 November 2011
- 35 comments
A landmark mural in Mexico City by Diego Rivera prompts John Pilger to muse how Mexican politics and business, as in other countries, have been polluted by greedy forces backed by Wall Street.
Africa
The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels
- 20 October 2011
- 47 comments
Barack Obama is leading the US at the head of a pack of western nations intent on the new scramble to exploit Africa’s resources. Their chief aim? To squeeze a China hungry for raw materials.
Global Issues
The smearing of a revolution
- 06 October 2011
- 40 comments
The Assange case demonstrates one thing – western claims to support democracy and the mainstream media’s defence of freedom of speech are entirely hypocritical.
Society
War and shopping – the extremism that never speaks its name
- 22 September 2011
- 106 comments
The Westfield Stratford centre, backed by a former Israeli commando and touted as the future face of London by the likes of Boris Johnson, makes a mockery of the East End’s history of productive work.
Africa
Hail to the true victors of Rupert’s Revolution
- 09 September 2011
- 78 comments
The British press celebrates the triumph of Libya’s “rebel” forces. And the British arms industry toasts its continued success in expanding its markets in the Middle East.
UK Politics
Damn or fear it, the truth is that it’s an insurrection
- 18 August 2011
- 127 comments
Bankers loot the Treasury, MPs fiddle their expenses . . . and then the establishment turns on deprived young people in England’s inner cities and calls them criminals. The August disturbances weren’t riots: they were the revolt of the working class.
