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Commentary Pilger: For Israel, A Reckoning

Commentary, January, 17 2010 John Pilger
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The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with u...

Commentary Pilger: Welcome to Orwell's World 2010

Commentary, December, 31 2009 John Pilger
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the pre...

Commentary Pilger: Normalizing The Crime Of The Century

Commentary, December, 11 2009 John Pilger
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I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day only to learn he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honorable man. We met soon after he had resigned from the Foreign Office in 1991 and I asked him if the government knew that Hawk fighter-bom...

Commentary Pilger: Returning to a Secret Country

Commentary, November, 27 2009 John Pilger
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I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, their silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway were d...

Commentary Pilger: Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise

Commentary, November, 18 2009 John Pilger
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When General Suharto, the west's man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered "a gleam of light in Asia", rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million "communists" was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard N...

Commentary Pilger: Breaking The Great Australian Silence

Commentary, November, 07 2009 John Pilger
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Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It's an honour I cherish, because it comes from where I come from.

Commentary Pilger: Thirty Years On, The Holocaust In Cambodia And Its Aftermath Is Remembered

Commentary, October, 30 2009 John Pilger
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John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Ric...

Commentary Pilger: A Postal Strike in Britain is the War at Home

Commentary, October, 22 2009 John Pilger
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The postal workers' struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war...

Commentary Pilger: War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength

Commentary, October, 17 2009 John Pilger
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Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hell...

Commentary Pilger: Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran

Commentary, October, 15 2009 John Pilger
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In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass...

Commentary Pilger: The Lying Game: How Are Prepared For Another War Of Aggression

Commentary, October, 01 2009 John Pilger
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In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea...

Commentary Pilger: For Britons, The Party Game Is Over

Commentary, September, 18 2009 John Pilger
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On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his "major policy speech" on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the...

Commentary Pilger: Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed

Commentary, September, 05 2009 John Pilger
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The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown's "repulsion" to Barack Obama's "outrage", the theatre of lies an...

Commentary Pilger: Cover-Up: A Film's Travesty Of Omissions

Commentary, August, 22 2009 John Pilger
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On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian d...

Znet Article Pilger: Summer reading for activists

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 John Pilger
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A summer reading list for those who aren't interested in listening to lies about the war or media PR.

Commentary Pilger: Books That Counter Our "Training" To Make War

Commentary, August, 07 2009 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire high street. Victory in Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC...

Commentary Pilger: Murdoch: A Cultural Chernobyl

Commentary, July, 25 2009 John Pilger
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I met Eddie Spearritt in the Philharmonic pub, overlooking Liverpool. It was a few years after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Eddie's son, Adam, aged 14, died in his arms....

Commentary Pilger: Mourn On The Fourth Of July

Commentary, July, 11 2009 John Pilger
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The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with a unit of US marines whose orders were to win hearts and minds. "We are here not to kill," ...

Commentary Pilger: Back To The Point Of Departure

Commentary, June, 25 2009 John Pilger
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T S Eliot wrote that the point of any journey was to find out where you came from. As I bore my bulging canvas bag to the wharf at Circular Quay, not far from where my Irish great-great-grandparents had landed in leg irons, I hoped the point of my...

Commentary Pilger: Smile On The Face Of The Tiger

Commentary, June, 11 2009 John Pilger
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At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu'rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable.

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