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Commentary Pilger: SETTING THE LIMITS OF INVASION JOURNALISM

Commentary, December, 06 2006 John Pilger
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On 14 November, Bridget Ash wrote to the BBC's Today programme asking why the invasion of Iraq was described merely as "a conflict". She could not recall other bloody invasions reduced to "a conflict". She received this reply:

Commentary Pilger: Let's now charge the accomplices

Commentary, November, 10 2006 John Pilger
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In a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about "end of an era" and "a new start for Iraq" was promoted by the ...

Commentary Pilger: The Blair Doctrine: Blood & Money

Commentary, November, 03 2006 John Pilger
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On 17 October, President Bush signed a bill that legalised torture and kidnapping and effectively repealed the Bill of Rights and habeas corpus. The CIA can now legally abduct people and ÒrenderÓ them to secret prisons in countries where they are ...

Commentary Pilger: Busy Fondling Their Self Esteem

Commentary, October, 17 2006 John Pilger
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The great Chilean balladeer Victor Jara, who was tortured to death by the regime of General Pinochet 33 years ago, wrote a song that mocks those who see themselves as rational and liberal, yet so often retreat into the arms of authority, no matter...

Znet Article Pilger: In praise of the 'subversive' documentary

Znet Article, September, 16 2006 John Pilger
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The political documentary, that most powerful and subversive medium, is said to be enjoying a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic. This may be true in the cinema but what of television, the source of most of our information? Like the work of...

Znet Article Pilger: No News Is Slow News

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 John Pilger
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When I began working as a journalist, there was something called "slow news". We would refer to "slow news days" when "nothing happened" - apart from, that is, triumphs and tragedies in faraway places where most of humanity lived. These were rarel...

Commentary Pilger: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Commentary, September, 12 2006 John Pilger
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As he launches a season of his films this week at the Barbican in London, John Pilger looks back on some of his 50-plus documentaries and argues that, in its descent to 'Big Brother' and other so-called reality TV, television is losing its sense o...

Znet Article Pilger: Return Of People Power

Znet Article, August, 30 2006 John Pilger
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In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his "secret war" against Central America. What is striking is the relentless lying. A department of lying was set up under Reagan with...

Commentary Pilger: The Real Threat We Face In Britain Is Blair

Commentary, August, 16 2006 John Pilger
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If the alleged plot to attack airliners flying from London is true - remember the lies that led to the invasion of Iraq, and to the raid on a "terrorist cell" in east London - then one person ultimately is to blame, as he was on 7 July last year. ...

Commentary Pilger: The Us Empire Makes Its Move To Take Over The Middle East

Commentary, July, 27 2006 John Pilger
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The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Surrounded by mock Graeco-Roman edifices with their soaring Corinthian columns, rampant eagles and chiselled profundities, it is at the ce...

Commentary Pilger: east Timor: The Coup The World Missed

Commentary, June, 23 2006 John Pilger
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In my 1994 film Death of a Nation there is a scene on board an aircraft flying between northern Australia and the island of Timor. A party is in progress; two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. "This is an historically unique momen...

Znet Article Pilger: In Palestine, a War on Children

Znet Article, June, 17 2006 John Pilger
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Arthur Miller wrote, "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally de...

Znet Article Pilger: The Last Taboo

Znet Article, June, 07 2006 John Pilger
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John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal sta...

Commentary Pilger: A Glimpse Of Freedom

Commentary, May, 25 2006 John Pilger
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The long, wide, bleak streets of cobblestones and tufts of petrified grass reach for the sacred mountain Illimani, whose pyramid of snow is like a watchtower. There was almost no life here when I first came to Bolivia as a young reporter - only th...

Commentary Pilger: Ch‡vez Is A Threat Because He Offers The Alternative Of A Decent Society

Commentary, May, 13 2006 John Pilger
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I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential rain and emerge at night like fireflies in the fog. Caracas is said to be one of the world's toughest...

Commentary Pilger: Return Of The Death Squads - Iraq's Hidden News

Commentary, May, 06 2006 John Pilger
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The lifts in the New York Hilton played CNN on a small screen you could not avoid watching. Iraq was top of the news; pronouncements about a "civil war" and "sectarian violence" were repeated incessantly. It was as if the US invasion had never hap...

Commentary Pilger: Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy

Commentary, April, 15 2006 John Pilger
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People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such...

Commentary Pilger: The War Lovers

Commentary, March, 23 2006 John Pilger
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The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favourite. A few would say they wer...

Commentary Pilger: The Secret War Against The Defenceless People Of West Papua

Commentary, March, 11 2006 John Pilger
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In 1993, I and four others travelled clandestinely across East Timor to gather evidence of the genocide committed by the Indonesian dictatorship. Such was the depth of silence about this tiny country that the only map I could find before I set out...

Commentary Pilger: Put Out More Flags: The Making Of Another America

Commentary, February, 24 2006 John Pilger
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The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the art-deco Valhalla in Sydney, one of the world's best at putting out powerful, political documentaries. The lack of fuss might have seemed surprising in a city whose ...

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