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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Politics
John Pilger reads an expose of aid
- 30 May 2005
As the workings of foreign aid in Cambodia demonstrate, behind the charade of "loans", "assistance" and "partnerships" lies systematic western plunder and corruption
Politics
Let's face it - the state has lost its mind
- 16 May 2005
The media coverage of this past election was a pastiche. Our right to know what our rulers are doing to people the world over is being lost in the new propaganda consensus
Politics
John Pilger - on Blair's forgotten victims
- 25 April 2005
Election: the outrage - By voting for Blair, you will walk over the corpses of at least 100,000 people, most of them innocent, slaughtered in defiance of international law
Society
John Pilger rejects the Law of Silence
- 11 April 2005
From the BBC's capitulation to the Israeli government, to the rush to eulogise a deeply reactionary Pope, pressure on the media is leading to insidious new state propaganda
Society
John Pilger names the real killers in Columbia
- 21 March 2005
The UK government finds it convenient to blame Colombia's huge murder rate on the drugs trade. The reality is that most of the killings are being done by a regime it supports
Society
John Pilger kebabs the Tonier-than-thou club
- 07 March 2005
Those who regard themselves as commissars of the respectable, moral, liberal class do not convey to us the enormity of what happened in Iraq. Their silence is quite disgusting
Society
John Pilger finds our children learning lies
- 21 February 2005
In our schools, children learn that the US fought the Vietnam war against a "communist threat" to "us". Is it any wonder that so many don't understand the truth about Iraq?
Society
John Pilger finds fear and silence in Australia
- 07 February 2005
Australia, once the land of the "fair go", has collaborated with Guantanamo more closely than any other western government and is guilty of human rights abuses of its own
Society
John Pilger denounces EU appeasement of Burma
- 24 January 2005
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With an eye to its vast Asian market, Europe promotes human rights when the price is right. In Burma, crimes against humanity are allowed to continue without challenge
World Affairs
The other tsunami
- 10 January 2005
While the sea may have killed tens of thousands, western policies kill millions every year. Yet even amid disaster, a new politics of community and morality is emerging
