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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A criminal's medal

  • 22 January 2009
  • 90 comments

As deserving as Blair, Howard and Uribe are of the Bush freedom medal, others cry out for a place in their company. For its assault on Gaza, I nominate the state of Israel

Gaza under fire

  • 08 January 2009
  • 217 comments

Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?

Wishful thinking for 2009

  • 18 December 2008
  • 271 comments

The good news for the new year is as follows

Beware of Groundhog Day

  • 11 December 2008
  • 105 comments

Barack Obama is a politician of a system described by Martin Luther King as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today". He speaks of change but offers only dreaded continuity

Plight of the unpeople

  • 27 November 2008
  • 12 comments

Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders

Don't believe the hype

  • 13 November 2008
  • 159 comments

Barack Obama is being lauded by liberals but the truth about him is that he represents the worst of American power. John Pilger reports from Texas

Exercise your rights

  • 23 October 2008
  • 23 comments

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have been "maintaining the fiction" for decades on all aspects of foreign policy. It's time we demanded the truth

Days of sunshine and grace

  • 09 October 2008
  • 6 comments

Sep was tall, handsome and languid, with a laconic half-smile like Errol Flynn's. On Saturdays he would show us slick dives off a Bondi bogie hole. John Pilger on a star that the world never knew

Truth and war mean nothing at the party conferences

  • 25 September 2008
  • 36 comments

The media turns the other way, or perverts the truth, while an increasingly imperialist United States, with Britain in tow, pursues its expansionist interests

Our murderous comedy of errors

  • 11 September 2008
  • 27 comments

Last month, “our” aircraft slaughtered nearly 100 Afghan civilians, two-thirds of them children aged three months to 16 years, while they slept

Vince Cable

The bankers' escape

The bankers cannot believe their luck

China

The next superpower

A new sun rises in the east

James Macintyre

Brown's PR gamble

Brown’s PR gamble

John Pilger

Travel and tragedy

Back to the point of departure

Iran

Hidden meanings

Hidden meanings

John Bercow

Speaker's secrets

Secrets of the Speaker

Sweden

Death of a dream

The death of a dream

Film review

Shirin

Movies, minus the popcorn

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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