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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Flying the flag, faking the news

  • 01 September 2010
  • 95 comments

Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain

Why WikiLeaks must be protected

  • 19 August 2010
  • 68 comments

The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today.

Blair must be arrested

  • 04 August 2010
  • 179 comments

Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — “peace envoy” to the Middle East — is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a “servant of the people”.

Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz

  • 22 July 2010
  • 50 comments

The rise to power of Australia’s first female prime minister led to hopes for political change. But early signs indicate that Gillard will do little more than protect vested big-business interests.

The charge of the media brigade

  • 08 July 2010
  • 55 comments

Behind the Pentagon’s façade of honourable motives for invading other countries lies a history of promoting violence and covering up atrocities with wars of misinformation. Next stops: Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea.

The way to lie about another war

  • 03 June 2010
  • 20 comments

The CIA set a precedent with the Tonkin “incident”, sparking off the Vietnam war. Today, we see the same arts of spin at work in Israel’s reasons for the bloody assault on the Muslim aid ships to Gaza.

The heresy of the Greeks offers hope

  • 21 May 2010
  • 8 comments

Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.

Warmongers of the world, unite

  • 04 May 2010
  • 11 comments

Is there any difference between Australia’s leaders and the three front-runners in Britain’s election when it comes to attitudes to war?

Give sport back to the fans

  • 22 April 2010
  • 4 comments

Rapacious business interests have made profit the new first principle of top-class sport. But all over the world, from South Africa to Liverpool and Manchester, fans are mobilising to reclaim the people’s pleasure.

Obama and the age of permanent war

  • 25 March 2010
  • 7 comments

America has emerged from the era of outright aggression on the rest of the world and into the age of nuanced terror.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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