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
Results 31 to 40 of 290
International Politics
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
International Politics
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.
UK Politics
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”.
Australasia
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.
International Politics
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.
Middle East
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.
UK Politics
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.
International Politics
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?
Sport
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.
North America
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.
