John Pilger

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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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"

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

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

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

John Pilger laments the silence of the writers

  • 10 November 2003

For the great writers of the 20th century, art could not be separated from politics. Today, there is a disturbing silence on the dark matters that should command our attention

The awakening of liberal England

  • 13 October 2003

Ye are many, they are few. Millions have broken their customary silence to rescue the noble ideas of freedom and democracy from Tony Blair's diminishing court

John Pilger finds Murdochism everywhere

  • 29 September 2003

Reducing journalism to a branch of corporate and government public relations is the hidden agenda of the media deregulators, in Britain and America

John Pilger wants to put Blair in the dock

  • 15 September 2003

While we are allowed to read internal e-mails in Whitehall, we can't see the traffic between Blair and Bush that would reveal the biggest lie of all

John Pilger investigates US plans for mini-nukes

  • 18 August 2003

With the United States spoiling for further fights across the globe and prepared to consider the deployment of "mini-nukes", there is no doubt which is the greatest rogue state of all

War on truth

  • 04 August 2003

The White House sets the tone and the media echo a line that celebrates the victimhood of the invader and the evil of the Iraqis. And then London takes its cue. By John Pilger in America

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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