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 offers a reading list
- 28 June 2004
When even Gavin Esler eulogises Ronald Reagan, we're in trouble. Here is a list of books that offer New Statesman readers an antidote to the hagiographies of power
Society
John Pilger denounces the liberal press (yes, NStoo)
- 14 June 2004
In its D-Day issue, the Observer presented Blair with pat-a-cake questions. His inane replies were not challenged, but would have been questioned in any secondary school classroom
World Affairs
Another fake
- 31 May 2004
Shareholders wanted the Mirror editor out long before the allegedly bogus photos. Does anyone care that the BBC and other papers fall for the hoaxes of US and UK rulers?
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
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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"
