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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Middle East
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
Middle East
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?
Politics
Wishful thinking for 2009
- 18 December 2008
- 271 comments
The good news for the new year is as follows
North America
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
Human Rights
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
North America
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
International Politics
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
Australasia
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
UK Politics
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
Media
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
