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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Politics
Australia's hidden empire
- 06 March 2008
- 13 comments
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
Media
Catching the last tram home
- 21 February 2008
- 8 comments
Beyond today's bathers, untanned and often fat, there is a glimpse of the down-at-heel city that Sydney was: the same peeling paint and worried eyes of refugees
World Affairs
Bringing down the new Berlin Walls
- 14 February 2008
- 28 comments
The last thing the west wants is to dismantle the barriers separating "us" from "them". They are vital for justifying invasion, plunder and nuclear proliferation.
North America
The danse macabre of US-style democracy
- 24 January 2008
- 117 comments
Of the presidential candidates I have interviewed, only George C Wallace, governor of Alabama, spoke the truth
Politics
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
Media
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
Media
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
World Affairs
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
Media
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
Politics
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?
