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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Society
John Pilger pays tribute to his mother
- 17 May 2004
My mother, aged 19, sold her books to pay the fare to her first teaching job in the bush. The currency of her generation was determination and courage
World Affairs
Get out now
- 19 April 2004
Iraq - Invaders have ripped up the fabric of a nation that survived Saddam Hussein. This is a war of liberation and we are the enemy
Politics
John Pilger reveals Australia's role as Bush's sheriff
- 05 April 2004
Of the token hangers-on who make up the Anglo-American "coalition of the willing", only Australia remains true to the uber-sheriff in Washington
World Affairs
John Pilger on terror in Palestine
- 22 March 2004
No front pages in the west mourn victims of the enduring bloodbath in occupied Palestine, the equivalent of the Madrid horror week after week, month after month
Politics
Bush or Kerry? No difference
- 08 March 2004
The man who, after Super Tuesday, is all but certain to become the Democrats' candidate for president is as dedicated as any Republican to the American empire
Politics
John Pilger reports from Syndey on the race riots
- 23 February 2004
Epidemics of disease ravage Aboriginal communities in Australia as they did the slums of 19th-century England. No wonder there are riots in Sydney, writes
Society
John Pilger argues that Gilligan was an exception
- 09 February 2004
The war correspondent James Cameron was smeared as a "dupe of communism". "When they call you a dupe," he told me, "they're really complaining that you are not their dupe"
Politics
American terrorist
- 12 January 2004
Forget Hutton. He will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don't want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq
Society
John Pilger has some news for Greg Dyke
- 08 December 2003
When Greg Dyke attacked American television's cheerleading coverage of Iraq, how did he manage to keep a straight face? The BBC gave even less voice to opposition views
Politics
John Pilger - knows when Bush is lying - his lips move
- 24 November 2003
Blair and Straw dare to suggest that the millions who have rumbled the Bush gang are simply being "fashionably anti-American" - another desperate act by desperate men
