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Commentary Pilger: Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is The Issue

Commentary, May, 17 2012 John Pilger
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Obama’s historic achievement has been to silence the anti-war and social justice movement associated with the Democratic Party

Commentary Pilger: You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going To Do About It?

Commentary, April, 27 2012 John Pilger
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A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy

Commentary Pilger: Up, Up and Away: How Money Power Works Down Under

Commentary, March, 23 2012 John Pilger
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As in Britain and America, the unions have long been tamed, co-opted and policed by their own leaderships

Commentary Pilger: The Dirty War on Wikileaks is Now Trial by Media in Sweden

Commentary, March, 11 2012 John Pilger
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War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield

Commentary Pilger: It’s Time We Recognised the Blair Government’s Criminality

Commentary, February, 16 2012 John Pilger
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The very concept of war was wrenched from its dictionary meaning and became “our values versus theirs”

Commentary Pilger: The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now

Commentary, February, 02 2012 John Pilger
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Washington’s enemy is not “terrorism” but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state

Commentary Pilger: The World War on Democracy

Commentary, January, 19 2012 John Pilger
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Obama’s most “historic” achievement is to bring the war on democracy home to America

Commentary Pilger: In a Land of Facades, Mark the First Signs of an Indian Spring

Commentary, December, 29 2011 John Pilger
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A peaceful resistance as inspiring as Tahrir Square has arisen in the most militarised region on earth

Commentary Pilger: Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo

Commentary, December, 01 2011 John Pilger
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Our increasingly militarised society is reflected in much of our media culture

Commentary Pilger: In Mexico, a Universal Struggle against Power and Forgetting

Commentary, November, 10 2011 John Pilger
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What is it about Mexico that is a universal political dream?

Commentary Pilger: The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels

Commentary, October, 20 2011 John Pilger
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Like all America’s subsequent invasions, a trail of blood from Latin America to Afghanistan and Iraq, the rationale was usually “self defence” or “humanitarian”

Commentary Pilger: The ‘Getting’ of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution

Commentary, October, 07 2011 John Pilger
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Assange’s crime has been to threaten those who fix the “parameters” of news and political ideas

Commentary Pilger: Hail to the True Victors of Rupert's Revolution

Commentary, September, 09 2011 John Pilger
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Nato attacked Libya to counter and manipulate a general Arab uprising that took the rulers of the world by surprise

Commentary Pilger: In Cuba, the Revolution Continues, Softly, As Times Change

Commentary, August, 04 2011 John Pilger
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It is the idea of Cuba having slipped the leash that still threatens the United States’ time-warped sense of its own power

Commentary Pilger: The Invasion of Australia – Official, at Last

Commentary, July, 02 2011 John Pilger
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The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”

Commentary Pilger: Brainwashing the Corporate Way

Commentary, June, 24 2011 John Pilger
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The great Arab uprising cannot be easily managed, or appropriated

Commentary Pilger: Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey

Commentary, May, 27 2011 John Pilger
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For the record, on a scorecard of imposed misery, Obama is as bad as George W. Bush

Commentary Pilger: Marching for Anzac in the 51st State

Commentary, April, 22 2011 John Pilger
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The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played Aussies-and-Japs.

Commentary Pilger: How The So-Called Guardians Of Free Speech Are Silencing The Messenger

Commentary, March, 10 2011 John Pilger
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Reality is no longer what the powerful say it is...

Commentary Pilger: Behind The Arab Revolt Is A Word We Dare Not Speak

Commentary, February, 26 2011 John Pilger
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Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief.

Commentary Pilger: The Revolt In Egypt Is Coming Home

Commentary, February, 10 2011 John Pilger
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The uprising in Egypt is our theatre of the possible.

Commentary Pilger: Australia’s Katrina Moment

Commentary, January, 29 2011 John Pilger
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When you fly over the earth’s oldest land mass, Australia, the view can be shocking. Scars as long as European countries are the result of erosion.

Commentary Pilger: The War On Wikileaks

Commentary, January, 14 2011 John Pilger
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The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism.

Commentary Pilger: Vietnam: The Last Battle -- Report From Saigon

Commentary, December, 03 2010 John Pilger
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The rain sheeted down, time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sullen streets awash.

Commentary Pilger: The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight

Commentary, November, 07 2010 John Pilger
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These days, the stirring lines of Percy Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy may seem unattainable. I don’t think so. Shelley was both a Romantic and political truth-teller. His words resonate now because only one political course is left to those who ar...

Commentary Pilger: Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued

Commentary, October, 15 2010 John Pilger
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The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras.

Commentary Pilger: Why Murdoch And The BBC Are On The Same Side

Commentary, September, 30 2010 John Pilger
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Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi Moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the television and newspaper market and threaten what is known as public service broadcasting.

Commentary Pilger: C'mon, Time To Re-Brand Your Life!

Commentary, September, 17 2010 John Pilger
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John Pilger continues his examination of the effect of 'extreme corporatism' - money - on sport. He contrasts the last of the great sporting stars who were not celebrities in the modern sense with the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch and the corruptio...

Commentary Pilger: Flying the flag, faking the news

Commentary, September, 03 2010 John Pilger
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Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to...

Commentary Pilger: Why Wikileaks Must Be Protected

Commentary, August, 19 2010 John Pilger
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On 26 July, Wikileaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented.

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