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 finds journalism rotting away
- 28 April 2003
Something deeply corrupt is consuming journalism. A war so one-sided it was hardly a war was reported like a Formula One race, as the teams sped to the chequered flag in Baghdad
World Affairs
A crime against humanity
- 14 April 2003
They have blown off the limbs of women and the scalps of children. Their victims overwhelm the morgues and flood into hospitals that lack even aspirin. John Pilger on a piratical war that brought terrorism and death to Iraq
Politics
What now?
- 17 March 2003
Civil disobedience is the sole path left for those who cannot support the Bush-Blair pact of aggression. Only then will politicians on both sides of the Atlantic be forced to recognise the folly of their ways
Society
John Pilger laughs (darkly) at Tony Blair
- 03 March 2003
When Saddam hanged a British journalist in 1990, MI5 had the journalist smeared in the Sun, and the Mail agreed he was a spy. What did Blair say? I can find nothing
World Affairs
As the world protests against war, we hear again the lies of old
- 17 February 2003
"A painful decision," say the supporters of an invasion. But it is not they who will feel the pain: it will be the Iraqi infants writhing in the dust when the cluster bombs fall
Politics
John Pilger accuses the Observer of a great betrayal
- 03 February 2003
In its leaders supporting the war in Iraq, the Observer proves that it has truly buried its great liberal editor David Astor, and his principled, "freethinking" legacy
Politics
George Bush's other poodle
- 20 January 2003
John Howard, Australia's PM, is the mouse that roars for America, whipping his country into war fever and paranoia about terrorism within. John Pilger reports from Sydney
Politics
John Pilger reveals the American plan
- 16 December 2002
Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was "a new Pearl Harbor". Its published aims have come alarmingly true
Society
John Pilger prefers the web to TV news
- 02 December 2002
We like to think our broadcast news is impartial. But it is deeply and subtly biased and that is why young people turn off, and switch to the samizdat on the web
Politics
John Pilger predicts a great new people's movement
- 04 November 2002
Something is stirring among the people. Energy and organisation are far in advance of the 1960s: this may well be bigger than the anti-Vietnam war protests
