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Znet Article Pilger: The Fall Of Saigon 1975: An Eye Witness Report

Znet Article, April, 16 2005 John Pilger
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Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against the French windows. The bed was meant to shield me from flying glass; but if the hotel was attacked with rockets, the bed would ...

Commentary Pilger: Bringing You The News

Commentary, April, 08 2005 John Pilger
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COURTESY OF THE LAW OF OPPOSITES

Commentary Pilger: Pilger To Antiwar Rally: 'be Proud Of What You've Achieved.'

Commentary, March, 25 2005 John Pilger
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Sydney Hyde Park, 20 March 2005:

Znet Article Pilger: Other Blood On Their Hands

Znet Article, March, 17 2005 John Pilger
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While apologists for Bush's and Blair's murderous adventure in Iraq see a "silver lining" in pseudo-events in the Middle East, real events in Colombia illuminate the universal nature of their "mission". The latest tells a horrific story that, ...

Znet Article Pilger: The fall of Saigon

Znet Article, March, 06 2005 John Pilger
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Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against the French windows. The bed was meant to shield me from flying glass; but if the hotel was attacked with rockets, the bed would ...

Commentary Pilger: Protecting A Regime With Blood On Its Hands

Commentary, March, 04 2005 John Pilger
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Almost eight years ago, the choir of British liberalism celebrated a new age. Tony Blair, wrote the liberal thinker Hugo Young, "wants to create a world none of us have known", a world which "ideology has surrendered entirely to 'values' [and wher...

Commentary Pilger: Attacking Our Memory

Commentary, February, 19 2005 John Pilger
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How does thought control work in societies that call themselves free? Why are famous journalists so eager, almost as a reflex, to minimise the culpability of political leaders such as Bush and Blair who share responsibility for the unprovoked atta...

Znet Article Pilger: Not In Our Name

Znet Article, February, 04 2005 John Pilger
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As George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term, let it not be said that people in the United States silently acquiesced in the face of this shameful coronation of war, greed, and intolerance. He does not speak for us. He does not represent us....

Commentary Pilger: Australia: The Sickening Of Democracy

Commentary, February, 04 2005 John Pilger
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National myths are usually partly true. In Australia, the myth of an egalitarian society, or "fair go", has an extraordinary history. Long before most of the world, Australia had a minimum wage, a 35-hour working week, child benefits and the vote...

Commentary Pilger: We Should Never Forget Burma

Commentary, January, 24 2005 John Pilger
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I tried to phone her the other day. I still have a number she gave me, which I could call infrequently and exchange a few words. It was fruitless to try this time; the hurried click at the other end was an echo of her Kafkaesque oppression. The is...

Commentary Pilger: The Other, Man-made Tsunami

Commentary, January, 07 2005 John Pilger
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The west's crusaders, the United States and Britain, are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth bomber or a week's bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for George Bush's coming inauguration party would rebuild much of th...

Commentary Pilger: How Silent Are The 'humanitarian' Invaders Of Kosovo?

Commentary, December, 09 2004 John Pilger
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Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the international "humanitarian" war party ought to be called to account for its largely forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Tony Blair's "onward march of liberation". Just as...

Znet Article Pilger: Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11: A Matter Of

Znet Article, November, 12 2004 John Pilger
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Edward S Herman's landmark essay, "The Banality of Evil", has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationa...

Commentary Pilger: Will There Be A War Against The World After November 2?

Commentary, October, 27 2004 John Pilger
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There is a surreal quality about visiting the United States in the last days of the presidential campaign. If George W Bush wins, according to a scientist I met, who escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, America will surrender many of its democratic trap...

Znet Article Pilger: The Secret Files That Reveal How A Nation Was Deported

Znet Article, October, 22 2004 John Pilger
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Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some of its most vulnerable citizens. What they tell is a shocking, almost incredible story in which the Blair Govern...

Commentary Pilger: Stealing A Nation

Commentary, October, 13 2004 John Pilger
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There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastro...

Commentary Pilger: The Media Culpability for Iraq

Commentary, October, 11 2004 John Pilger
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In October 1999, I stood in a ward of dying children in Baghdad with Denis Halliday, who the previous year had resigned as assistant secretary general of the United Nations. He said: "We are waging a war through the United Nations on the people of...

Znet Article Pilger: Australia's Samidzat

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 John Pilger
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In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were owned by 50 corporations. In 2002, this had fallen to nine transnational companies. Rampant deregulation has ended even a semblance ...

Znet Article Pilger: The Most Important Terrorism Is 'Ours'

Znet Article, September, 16 2004 John Pilger
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The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and "us". That is the unerring message from western governments, press, radio and television. For Islam, read terrorists. It is reminiscent of the cold war, when the world was divided between "Re...

Znet Article Pilger: The Warlords of America

Znet Article, September, 08 2004 John Pilger
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Most of the US's recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake; Bush may be the lesser evil. On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a reso...

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