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Commentary Pilger: Britain: The Depth Of Corruption

Commentary, May, 29 2009 John Pilger
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The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of...

Commentary Pilger: Sri Lanka: Distant Voices, Desperate Lives

Commentary, May, 14 2009 John Pilger
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In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late at night, speaking in a single breath, spilling out stories of discrimination and injustice. Who listened to their truth until the violence began? Bengalis from what was then East ...

Commentary Pilger: Obama's 100 Days -- The Mad Men Did Well

Commentary, April, 29 2009 John Pilger
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The BBC's American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising a...

Commentary Pilger: Wine: The Reds are Revolting

Commentary, April, 16 2009 John Pilger
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My parents grew up in the mining town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. The main street had hitching posts and was as wide as a paddock, and the general store was shaded by a vast awning of corrugated iron and offered liquori...

Commentary Pilger: Fake Faith and Epic Crimes

Commentary, April, 02 2009 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at N...

Commentary Pilger: War comes home to Britain

Commentary, March, 06 2009 John Pilger
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Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message. Police can willfully shoot t...

Commentary Pilger: Cambodia's Missing Accused

Commentary, February, 24 2009 John Pilger
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At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people walked to the windows and wept. The DJ had played a song by the much-lov...

Commentary Pilger: Hollywood's New Censors

Commentary, February, 20 2009 John Pilger
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When I returned from the war in Vietnam, I wrote a film script as an antidote to the myth that the war had been an ill-fated noble cause. The producer David Puttnam took the draft to Hollywood and offered it to the major studios, whose responses w...

Commentary Pilger: The Politics Of Bollocks

Commentary, February, 06 2009 John Pilger
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Growing up in an Antipodean society proud of its rich variety of expletives, I never heard the word bollocks. It was only on arrival in England that I understood its majesterial power. All classes used it. Judges grunted it; an editor of the Daily...

Commentary Pilger: Come On Down For Your Freedom Medals

Commentary, January, 23 2009 John Pilger
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On 13 January, George W. Bush presented "presidential freedom medals", said to be America's highest recognition of devotion to freedom and peace. Among the recipients were Tony Blair, the epic liar who, with Bush, bears responsibility for the phys...

Commentary Pilger: Holocaust Denied

Commentary, January, 09 2009 John Pilger
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The lying silence of those who know...

Blog Post Pilger: Wishful Thinking for 2009

Blog Post, December, 20 2008 John Pilger
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The good news for the new year is as follows...

Commentary Pilger: Beware Of Obama's Groundhog Day

Commentary, December, 13 2008 John Pilger
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One of the cleverest films I have seen is Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman who finds himself stuck in time. At first he deludes himself that the same day and the same people and the same circumstances offer new opportuniti...

Commentary Pilger: Kafka Has A Rival. The British Foreign Office Lectures Us On Human Rights

Commentary, December, 02 2008 John Pilger
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Today (December 1), a surreal event will take place in the centre of London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of Human Rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human R...

Commentary Pilger: The Corruption That Makes Unpeople Of An Entire Nation

Commentary, November, 27 2008 John Pilger
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I went to the Houses of Parliament on 22 October to join a disconsolate group of shivering people who had arrived from a faraway tropical place and were being prevented from entering the Public Gallery to hear their fate. This was not headline new...

Commentary Pilger: Beware The Obama Hype. What 'Change' In America Really Means

Commentary, November, 13 2008 John Pilger
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My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the line of telegraph poles to the small town of Midlothian, where I met Penn Jones Jr, editor of th...

Commentary Pilger: The Diplomacy Of Lying

Commentary, October, 29 2008 John Pilger
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In 1992, Mark Higson, the Foreign Office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before the Scott inquiry into the scandal of arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein. He described a "culture of lying" at the heart of British foreign policymaking. I ...

Znet Article Pilger: Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia

Znet Article, October, 25 2008 John Pilger
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Claims of child abuse are proving a fertile pretext to menace the Aboriginal communities lying in the way of uranium mining

Commentary Pilger: The people's sporting star who had 'the grace'

Commentary, October, 14 2008 John Pilger
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The great American athlete John Carlos once described "those people of grace who raise sport to something more than a game". Carlos and Tommie Smith had stood with their black-gloved fists held high on the winners' podium at the 1968 Olympics in M...

Commentary Pilger: South Africa: The Liberation's Betrayal

Commentary, October, 06 2008 John Pilger
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John Pilger describes the 'social and economic catastrophe' that replaced the African National Congress's 'unbreakable' promise' to end the poverty of the majority.

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