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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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America's great game

  • 10 January 2008
  • 18 comments

The US and Britain claim defeating the Taliban is part of a "good war" against al-Qaeda. Yet there is evidence the 2001 invasion was planned before 9/11

Tainted hands across the water

  • 13 December 2007
  • 58 comments

The values we share with America are those of rapacious power and wealth, writes John Pilger

The cyber guardians of honest journalism

  • 29 November 2007
  • 9 comments

No longer trusting what they read, see and hear, people in western democracies are questioning as never before, particularly via the internet

The forgotten fallen

  • 15 November 2007
  • 27 comments

Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq - a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced

Labour's 'reforms' destroying the NHS

  • 01 November 2007
  • 28 comments

Tony Benn predicts a revolution in defence of the National Health Service but it may be too late to erect the barricades

Who's afraid of Michael Moore?

  • 18 October 2007
  • 51 comments

John Pilger argues the spirit and humanity of Moore's film-making shames the supine American media. Brian Cathcart on how good journalism can be both right and wrong plus Michael Moore: hero or villain?

My last conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi

  • 04 October 2007
  • 5 comments

John Pilger recalls the last time he met with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Unmentionable truths

  • 06 September 2007
  • 7 comments

Class allows us to connect the present with the past and to understand the malignancies of a modern economic system based on inequity and fear

An important marker has been passed

  • 23 August 2007
  • 178 comments

Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and will not be silenced.

Good Ol' Bill, the liberal hero

  • 09 August 2007
  • 45 comments

Entering the "grotesquely paid presence" of Bill Clinton

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