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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."

“Good” and “bad” war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting
The regime that Washington created in the South, the “good” Korea, was set up and run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America.
By John Pilger
13 February
It’s the Other Oscars – and yet again the winner slips away
John Pilger presents the Celebrity Oscars: his award for the best self-promotion of the year.
By John Pilger
30 January
Discovering the power of people’s history – and why it is feared
"It was the worst winter in 200 years and I had never worn a scarf or owned a coat."
By John Pilger
27 November
Politics
John Pilger on Steve Bell and the cartoonist as true journalist
Steve Bell is a contemporary Hogarth, with a touch of Peter Sellers.
By John Pilger
04 November
Culture
Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it
Unlike the babbling brook of Hollywood – with its suppression of truth, fake heroes and warmongering – a masterpiece, or just a good movie, is unforgettable.
By John Pilger
24 October
World
Even in an age of “realists” and vigilantes, there is still cause for optimism
It's not too late for the world to learn the lesson of the US's foreign policy mistakes.
By John Pilger
19 September
World
The courage of Bradley Manning will inspire others to seize their moment of truth
In 2010, Private Manning did his duty to humanity and supplied proof from within the murder machine. This is his triumph, and his show trial merely expresses corrupt power’s abiding fear of people learning the truth.
By John Pilger
08 August
World
How we are gentrified, impoverished and silenced – if we allow it
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds.
By John Pilger
25 July
World
Nelson Mandela’s greatness may be assured – but not his legacy
When my interview with him was over, he patted me on the arm as if to say I was forgiven for contradicting him.
By John Pilger
11 July
Understanding the Prism leaks is understanding the rise of a new fascism
It is in popular culture that the fraudulent “ideal” of America as morally superior, a “leader of the free world”, has been most effective.
By John Pilger
20 June

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