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Commentary Pilger: The Quiet Death Of Freedom

Commentary, January, 06 2006 John Pilger
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On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and su...

Znet Article Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun

Znet Article, November, 25 2005 John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...

Commentary Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Commentary, November, 11 2005 John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Znet Article, November, 10 2005 John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...

Commentary Pilger: The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Commentary, October, 28 2005 John Pilger
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An RAF officer is about to be tried before a military court for

Znet Article Pilger: The Silence of Writers

Znet Article, October, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...

Znet Article Pilger: Suharto to Iraq

Znet Article, October, 15 2005 John Pilger
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"The propagandist’s purpose,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...

Znet Article Pilger: Sinister Events In A Cynical War

Znet Article, September, 27 2005 John Pilger
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Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what we...

Commentary Pilger: News From Behind The Facade

Commentary, September, 20 2005 John Pilger
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When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had taken refuge from the violence of the Deep South...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State

Znet Article, August, 18 2005 John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...

Znet Article Pilger: Fascism Then And Now

Znet Article, August, 02 2005 John Pilger
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We gathered, the other day, at the International Brigades’ Memorial in Jubilee Park beside the Thames in London. It was warm with no breeze, “a Spanish day”, one of the Brigaders said. Like the others, all in their eighties...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair Is Unfit To Be Prime Minister

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 John Pilger
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The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling to be heard. It is being said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the public breaks the silen...

Commentary Pilger: Truth Struggling

Commentary, July, 21 2005 John Pilger
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In all the coverage of the bombing of London, a truth has struggled to be heard. With honourable exceptions, it has been said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the public has broken the silence, as an East Londoner did when he w...

Commentary Pilger: Blair's Bombs

Commentary, July, 12 2005 John Pilger
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In all the coverage of last week's bombing of London, a basic truth struggled to be heard. It has been said quietly, politely, guardedly, as if it might somehow dishonour the dead, instead of speaking truth to the cause. While not doubting the atr...

Znet Article Pilger: From Iraq To The G8

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 John Pilger
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Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers...

Commentary Pilger: The G8 Summit: A Fraud And A Circus

Commentary, June, 24 2005 John Pilger
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The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, "55 billion Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'." The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time i...

Commentary Pilger: Sleeping With The Enemy

Commentary, June, 11 2005 John Pilger
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The National Union of Journalists and the Blair government are planning a "launch" ceremony, at which they will announce their "partnership". According to John Fray, the NUJ's deputy general secretary, this collaboration will "promote awareness am...

Commentary Pilger: Cambodia: A Victim Of 'Aid'

Commentary, May, 29 2005 John Pilger
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From the air, there appeared to be nobody, no movement, not even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the Mekong river. Even the patchwork of rice paddies and fields was barely discernible; nothing seemed to have been plant...

Znet Article Pilger: The Propaganda War On Democracy

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive". He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-ma...

Commentary Pilger: In Britain, An Absurdity: Persuading People They Have A Political Choice

Commentary, April, 29 2005 John Pilger
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A familiar, if desperate media push is under way to convince the British people that the main political parties offer them a democratic choice in the general election on 5 May. This demonstrable absurdity became hilarious when Tony Blair, leader o...

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