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Commentary Pilger: Class Is Still Critical

Commentary, September, 08 2007 John Pilger
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A state of parallel worlds determines almost everything we do and how we do it, everything we know and how we know it. The word that once described it, class, is unmentionable, just as imperialism used to be. Thanks to George W Bush, the latter is...

Znet Article Pilger: An important marker has been passed

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 John Pilger
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Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and wil...

Commentary Pilger: A Boycott Of Israel: Something Has Changed

Commentary, August, 23 2007 John Pilger
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From a limestone hill rising above Qalandia refugee camp you can see Jerusalem. I watched a lone figure standing there in the rain, his son holding the tail of his long tattered coat. He extended his hand and did not let go. "I am Ahmed Hamzeh, st...

Commentary Pilger: The Ghosts Of Pinochet Haunts The Campaign Against Chavez

Commentary, August, 19 2007 John Pilger
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I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter's wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the...

Commentary Pilger: Good Ol' Bill, The Liberal Hero

Commentary, August, 08 2007 John Pilger
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On 14 August, you are invited to "an audience" with Bill Clinton in London. You have a choice. You can attend the "breakfast and speech" or the "brunch buffet and speech". These will take place in the white elephantine Millennium Dome, where a pla...

Commentary Pilger: How Truth Slips Down the Memory Hole

Commentary, July, 25 2007 John Pilger
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One of the leaders of demonstrations in Gaza calling for the release of the BBC reporter Alan Johnston was a Palestinian news cameraman, Imad Ghanem. On 5 July, he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he filmed them invading Gaza. A Reuters video shows...

Znet Article Pilger: The Invisible Government

Znet Article, July, 20 2007 John Pilger
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In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in ...

Commentary Pilger: The London Bombs Also Belong to the New Prime Minister

Commentary, July, 05 2007 John Pilger
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Just as the London bombs in the summer of 2005 were Blair's bombs, the inevitable consequence of his government's lawless attack on Iraq, so the potential bombs in the summer of 2007 are Brown's bombs. Gordon Brown, Blair's successor as prime min...

Znet Article Pilger: The British Army Rebels Against Propaganda

Znet Article, June, 09 2007 John Pilger
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An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable" w...

Commentary Pilger: REBELLION IN THE BRITISH ARMY

Commentary, June, 05 2007 John Pilger
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An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable" which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers". In a letter to the BBC's Newsnight and Medialens....

Commentary Pilger: IMPRISONING A WHOLE NATION

Commentary, May, 23 2007 John Pilger
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Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza, whose suffering has become a metaphor for the tragedy imposed on the peoples of the Middle Ea...

Commentary Pilger: THE KENNEDY MYTH RISES AGAIN

Commentary, May, 10 2007 John Pilger
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On 5 June 1968, just after midnight, Robert Kennedy was shot in my presence at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just acknowledged his victory in the California primary. "On to Chicago and let's win there!" were his last public words, re...

Commentary Pilger: IRAN MAY BE THE GREATEST CRISIS OF MODERN TIMES

Commentary, April, 12 2007 John Pilger
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The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. "They were sick and some were dying," she says. "Then my mother saw these German women look...

Commentary Pilger: The Swimmer's Journey Home

Commentary, March, 29 2007 John Pilger
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Most days, growing up, I would walk down a steep hill past blocks of Aussie Gothic with stairwells that stank of cabbage and beer and dogs, through crooked alleyways of fresh tar turned to putty in the heat and rusted iron fences, beyond which wer...

Commentary Pilger: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN TORTURER AND VICTIM

Commentary, March, 14 2007 John Pilger
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In Andrew Cockburn's new book, Rumsfeld, the gap between rampant power and its faraway victims is closed. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence until last year and a designer of the Iraq bloodbath, is revealed as personally directing from his o...

Commentary Pilger: AUSTRALIA: THE 51st STATE

Commentary, March, 01 2007 John Pilger
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In June this year, 26,000 US and Australian troops will take part in bombarding the ancient fragile landscape of Australia. They will storm the Great Barrier Reef, gun down "terrorists" and fire laser-guided missiles at some of the most pristine w...

Commentary Pilger: Mourning a secret Australia

Commentary, February, 13 2007 John Pilger
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How many days of mourning have I attended? Vivid in the memory are wreaths thrown on to Sydney Harbour, and men in crumpled hats and women in loose frocks standing on foreshores where their forebears saw the first ships carrying white men. On 14 F...

Commentary Pilger: Iran: The War Begins

Commentary, February, 03 2007 John Pilger
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As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.

Commentary Pilger: CRUELTY AND XENOPHOBIA SHAME STIR THE LUCKY COUNTRY

Commentary, January, 26 2007 John Pilger
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In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social regression of a once proud liberal democracy and says that the flag-waving "values" of the neo-con prime minister may be coming unstuck in Gua...

Commentary Pilger: Looking from the side, from Belsen to Gaza

Commentary, January, 17 2007 John Pilger
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A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and ...

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