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Pilger: The New World War ---- The Silence Is A Lie
Commentary, September, 25 2008
John Pilger
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Britain's political conference season of 2008 will be remembered as The Great Silence. Politicians have come and gone and their mouths have moved in front of large images of themselves, and they often wave at someone. There has been lots of news a...
Pilger: A Murderous Theatre Of The Absurd
Commentary, September, 12 2008
John Pilger
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Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.
Pilger: Don't Forget Yugoslavia
Commentary, August, 16 2008
John Pilger
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The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her...
Pilger: The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today
Commentary, August, 07 2008
John Pilger
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In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened at...
Pilger: Obama, The Prince Of Bait-And-Switch
Commentary, July, 24 2008
John Pilger
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On 12 July, the London Times devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the ...
Pilger: How Britain Wages War
Commentary, July, 13 2008
John Pilger
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Five photographs together break a silence. The first is of a former Gurkha regimental sergeant major, Tul Bahadur Pun, aged 87. He sits in a wheelchair outside 10 Downing Street. He holds a board full of medals, including the Victoria Cross, the h...
Pilger: From Triumph to Torture
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
John Pilger
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Israel's treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern
Pilger: In The Cause Of Ignorance And Fear
Blog Post, June, 26 2008
John Pilger
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The British lawyer Gareth Peirce, celebrated for her defence of miscarriage of justice victims, wrote recently: “Over the years of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: internment, ‘shoot ...
Pilger: In The Great Tradition, Obama Is A Hawk
Commentary, June, 15 2008
John Pilger
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In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: “The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” Wh...
Pilger: Burma, victim of the 'war on terror'
Commentary, June, 05 2008
John Pilger
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When I phoned Aung San Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon yesterday, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake. Through ragged palms, a trip-wire is visible, a reminder that this is the prison of a woman whose party was elected by a land...
Pilger: From Kennedy To Obama; Liberalism's Last Fling
Commentary, June, 01 2008
John Pilger
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In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968. Having travelled with Kennedy up ...
Pilger: Destroying The Best Of Britain
Commentary, May, 10 2008
John Pilger
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When I first came to live in Britain, much of ordinary life was premised on a sense of community. It was mostly undeclared; occasionally, it would become vivid, even heroic. Watching Durham miners, defeated but unbowed by hunger and debt, march ba...
Pilger: Latin America: The Atack On Democracy
Commentary, April, 25 2008
John Pilger
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Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political ...
Pilger: The Struggle Against Apartheid Has Begun Again In South Africa / Honouring the 'Unbreakable Promise'
Commentary, April, 12 2008
John Pilger
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Almost fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
Pilger: A Tribute To Philip Jones Griffiths, Who Understood War And Peace, And People
Commentary, March, 29 2008
John Pilger
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It was 1970 and we were on our first assignment together and at once became friends, talking about the war as surreal, and mostly about the people, whom he loved.
Pilger: The "Good Good War" Is A Bad War
Commentary, March, 26 2008
John Pilger
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I had suggested to Marina that we meet in the safety of the Intercontinental Hotel, where foreigners stay in Kabul, but she said no. She had been there once and government agents, suspecting she was Rawa, had arrested her.
Pilger: The Quiet Rendition Of Moudud Ahmed
Commentary, March, 13 2008
John Pilger
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The extraordinary life of Moudud Ahmed, who in 1971 led Pilger into liberated East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Now a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Dhaka, Moudud Ahmed is seriously ill in a country which, says his wife Hasna, "...
Pilger: Australia's Hidden Empire
Commentary, March, 06 2008
John Pilger
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When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence - cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian governments actively encourage this. Witness the recent "G'Day USA" campaig...
Pilger: Catching The Last Tram Home
Commentary, February, 21 2008
John Pilger
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It was not that I was unhappy delivering newspapers piled in a fruit box that ran on ball bearings, hauling it along streets of liver-bricked flats that stank of the daily cabbage quota.
Pilger: Bringing Down The New Berlin Walls
Commentary, February, 14 2008
John Pilger
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The recent breakout of the people of Gaza provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall.
