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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.
Pilger: Suharto, The Model Killer, And His Friends In High Places
Commentary, January, 29 2008
John Pilger
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In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an Australian aircraft flying over the island of Timor. A party is in progress, and two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. "This is an historically unique moment," s...
Pilger: The Danse Macabre Of Us-Style Democracy
Commentary, January, 24 2008
John Pilger
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The former president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere once asked, "Why haven't we all got a vote in the US election? Surely everyone with a TV set has earned that right just for enduring the merciless bombardment every four years." Having reported four ...
Pilger: The 'Good War' Is A Bad War
Commentary, January, 10 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. We met instead at a safe...
Pilger: Blair's Legacy: From Liberalism To Murdochracy
Commentary, December, 20 2007
John Pilger
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The former Murdoch retainer Andrew Neil, who edited the London Sunday Times, has described James Murdoch, the heir apparent, as a "social liberal". What strikes me is his casual use of "liberal" for the new ruler of an empire devoted to the promot...
Pilger: How the Anglo-American elite shares its 'values'
Commentary, December, 17 2007
John Pilger
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When Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke recently about his government's devotion to the United States, "founded on the values we share", he was echoing his Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, who was preparing to welcome the Saudi dictator to Brit...
Pilger: Exposing The Guardians Of Power
Commentary, December, 01 2007
John Pilger
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Exposing The Guardians Of Power
Pilger: No Remembrance, No Remorse For The Fallen Of Iraq
Commentary, November, 14 2007
John Pilger
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On Remembrance Day 2007, the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies.
Pilger: Sicko 2: The Destruction Of Britain's Health Service
Commentary, November, 10 2007
John Pilger
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Lying back in a hospital ward, the procedure done and successful, a cup of tea going down nicely with the last of the morphine, you are a spectator to the best.
Pilger: Sicko 2: The Destruction Of Britain's Health Service
Commentary, November, 06 2007
John Pilger
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Sicko 2: The Destruction Of Britain's Health Service
Pilger: Why They're Afraid Of Michael Moore
Commentary, October, 17 2007
John Pilger
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In Sicko, Michael Moore's new film, a young Ronald Reagan is shown appealing to working-class Americans to reject "socialised medicine" as commie subversion. In the 1940s and 1950s, Reagan was employed by the American Medical Association and big b...
Chomsky: Toward a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Book, October, 12 2007
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Pilger: Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire
Book, October, 12 2007
Well-known journalist and filmmaker Pilger remains faithful to his decades-long quest to penetrate the citadel of political power and show that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Reminding readers that "if power was truly invincible, it would ...
Pilger: The rising of Latin America - the genesis of 'The War On Democracy'
Znet Article, September, 27 2007
John Pilger
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The rising of Latin America - the genesis of 'The War On Democracy'
