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
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
Politics
John Pilger insists that all governments lie
- 07 July 2003
Unless we apply the lesson "all governments are liars" to our own leaders, British fighter jets and chemical weapons technology will continue to wreck lives all over the world
Politics
Bush's Vietnam
- 23 June 2003
Once more, we hear that America is being "sucked into a quagmire". The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong
World Affairs
John Pilger argues that Britain supports terrorism
- 26 May 2003
The official version is that Britain's foreign policy is basically benevolent: that it promotes democracy, peace and human rights. The truth is that Britain supports terrorism, argues John Pilger
Politics
John Pilger remembers a courageous campaigner
- 12 May 2003
The tall, ruddy-faced man opened my door and said: "I'm Jim Howard. Where do I start?" So began the rescue of Cambodia, one of the biggest and boldest relief operations in history
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
