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Pilger: Begin to make it happen
Znet Article, February, 14 2003
John Pilger
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TOMORROW one of the most important public events in memory will take place in central London. It is not possible to overstate the significance and urgency of the march and demonstration against an unprovoked British and American attack on Iraq, a...
Pilger: Betrayal Of A Noble Legacy
Znet Article, February, 01 2003
John Pilger
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The Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi has described "a deep and unconscious racism [that] imbues every aspect of western conduct toward Iraq". She wrote: "I recall that a similar culture prevailed in the UK during the 1956 Suez crisis and the 1...
Pilger: Blood On Their Hands
Znet Article, January, 29 2003
John Pilger
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William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary peop...
Pilger: George Bush's Other Poodle
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
John Pilger
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George Bush's Other Poodle
Pilger: We Say No To Bush's War: Voices Of The Anti War Opposition
Znet Article, January, 16 2003
John Pilger
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Socialist Worker has compiled an excellent anti war q&a based on interviews conducted with many different voices of the anti-war movement. Norman Solomon: Scene of a war crime to come You were recently in Baghdad. What do you think of the Bu...
Pilger: The Secret War
Znet Article, December, 20 2002
John Pilger
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THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated thei...
Pilger: America's Bid For Global Dominance
Znet Article, December, 12 2002
John Pilger
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The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humani...
Pilger: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
John Pilger
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ON November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack on Iraq more than likely, Downing Street began issuing warnings of imminent terrorist threats against the United Ki...
Pilger: Impartiality Of British Journalism
Znet Article, November, 28 2002
John Pilger
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During a debate on the coverage of the miners' strike at the Edinburgh Television Festival, the BBC's industrial editor at the time, Martin Adeney, described trucks bringing coal to a steelworks as having made a "successful run". As Ken Loach poin...
Pilger: The New Protest Movement
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
John Pilger
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Graham Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above, until those above take one step too far". There is a stirring in this people's world ...
Pilger: Bali and Imperialism
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
John Pilger
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages....
Pilger: Bali/Australia/Terror
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
John Pilger
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For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the ...
Pilger: Palestinians Not Alone
Commentary, October, 05 2002
John Pilger
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The Palestinians are no longer alone; Israel, despite the craven intimidation of some of its supporters, has ceased to be immune from truthful media criticism
Pilger: To The Streets
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
John Pilger
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A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London. In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on wh...
Pilger: Diplomacy?
Znet Article, September, 19 2002
John Pilger
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The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990, a vers...
Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue
Pilger: This War Is A Failure
Znet Article, September, 11 2002
John Pilger
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THE anniversary of September 11 will be remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering people will, or ought to be, unqualified and universal. ...
Pilger: Remembering 9/11
Commentary, September, 08 2002
John Pilger
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Remembering 11 September merely as gruesome spectacle is an insult to the victims of that epic crime. However, remembering is important in order to make sense of it, and especially of what happened next.
Pilger: The Great Charade
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
John Pilger
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It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the 'war on ter...
Pilger: Our Writers Failure
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
John Pilger
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On 17 June, I wrote about Martin Amis's recent Guardian essay, "The voice of the lonely crowd", in which he described the response of acclaimed writers like himself to 11 September as a "pitiable babble". In fact, they were and remain most...
