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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.

Commentary Pilger: Tony Blair must be prosecuted

Commentary, August, 06 2010 John Pilger
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Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes.

Commentary Pilger: The New Warlord Of Oz

Commentary, July, 22 2010 John Pilger
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The Order of Mates celebrated beside Sydney Harbour the other day. This is a venerable masonry in Australian political life that unites the Labor Party with the rich elite known as the big end of town.

Commentary Pilger: The Charge Of The Media Brigade

Commentary, July, 08 2010 John Pilger
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The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years...

Commentary Pilger: The Black Art Of ‘Master Illusions’

Commentary, June, 03 2010 John Pilger
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How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive...

Commentary Pilger: The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope

Commentary, May, 21 2010 John Pilger
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As Britain’s political class pretends that its arranged marriage of Tweedledee to Tweedledum is democracy, the inspiration for the rest of us is Greece. It is hardly surprising that Greece is presented not as a beacon but as a “junk country” getti...

Commentary Pilger: Voting for War. Take Your Pick.

Commentary, May, 08 2010 John Pilger
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Staring at the vast military history section in the airport shop, I had a choice: the derring-do of psychopaths or scholarly tomes with their illicit devotion to the cult of organised killing. There was nothing I recognised from reporting war. Not...

Commentary Pilger: Why Sharks Should Not Own Sport

Commentary, April, 23 2010 John Pilger
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As Tiger Woods returns to golf, not all his affairs are salacious headlines. In Dubai, the Tiger Woods Golf Course in Dubai is costing $100million to build. Dubai relies on cheap third world labor, as do certain consumer brands that have helped ma...

Commentary Pilger: Have a Nice World War, Folks

Commentary, March, 26 2010 John Pilger
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Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American ...

Commentary Pilger: Welcome to the world's first Murdochracy

Commentary, March, 12 2010 John Pilger
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Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr...

Commentary Pilger: Listen to the Heroes of Israel

Commentary, February, 26 2010 John Pilger
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I phoned Rami Elhanan the other day. We had not spoken for six years and much has happened in Israel and Palestine. Rami is an Israeli graphic designer who lives with his family in Jerusalem. His father survived Auschwitz. His grandparents and six...

Commentary Pilger: Why the Oscars are a Con

Commentary, February, 11 2010 John Pilger
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Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occu...

Commentary Pilger: The Kidnapping of Haiti

Commentary, January, 28 2010 John Pilger
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The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis...

Commentary Pilger: For Israel, A Reckoning

Commentary, January, 17 2010 John Pilger
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The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with u...

Commentary Pilger: Welcome to Orwell's World 2010

Commentary, December, 31 2009 John Pilger
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the pre...

Commentary Pilger: Normalizing The Crime Of The Century

Commentary, December, 11 2009 John Pilger
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I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day only to learn he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honorable man. We met soon after he had resigned from the Foreign Office in 1991 and I asked him if the government knew that Hawk fighter-bom...

Commentary Pilger: Returning to a Secret Country

Commentary, November, 27 2009 John Pilger
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I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, their silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway were d...

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