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Commentary Pilger: Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise

Commentary, November, 18 2009 John Pilger
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When General Suharto, the west's man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered "a gleam of light in Asia", rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million "communists" was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard N...

Commentary Pilger: Breaking The Great Australian Silence

Commentary, November, 07 2009 John Pilger
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Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It's an honour I cherish, because it comes from where I come from.

Commentary Pilger: Thirty Years On, The Holocaust In Cambodia And Its Aftermath Is Remembered

Commentary, October, 30 2009 John Pilger
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John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Ric...

Commentary Pilger: A Postal Strike in Britain is the War at Home

Commentary, October, 22 2009 John Pilger
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The postal workers' struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war...

Commentary Pilger: War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength

Commentary, October, 17 2009 John Pilger
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Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hell...

Commentary Pilger: Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran

Commentary, October, 15 2009 John Pilger
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In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass...

Commentary Pilger: The Lying Game: How Are Prepared For Another War Of Aggression

Commentary, October, 01 2009 John Pilger
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In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea...

Commentary Pilger: For Britons, The Party Game Is Over

Commentary, September, 18 2009 John Pilger
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On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his "major policy speech" on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the...

Commentary Pilger: Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed

Commentary, September, 05 2009 John Pilger
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The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown's "repulsion" to Barack Obama's "outrage", the theatre of lies an...

Commentary Pilger: Cover-Up: A Film's Travesty Of Omissions

Commentary, August, 22 2009 John Pilger
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On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian d...

Commentary Pilger: Books That Counter Our "Training" To Make War

Commentary, August, 07 2009 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire high street. Victory in Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC...

Commentary Pilger: Murdoch: A Cultural Chernobyl

Commentary, July, 25 2009 John Pilger
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I met Eddie Spearritt in the Philharmonic pub, overlooking Liverpool. It was a few years after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Eddie's son, Adam, aged 14, died in his arms....

Commentary Pilger: Mourn On The Fourth Of July

Commentary, July, 11 2009 John Pilger
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The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with a unit of US marines whose orders were to win hearts and minds. "We are here not to kill," ...

Commentary Pilger: Back To The Point Of Departure

Commentary, June, 25 2009 John Pilger
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T S Eliot wrote that the point of any journey was to find out where you came from. As I bore my bulging canvas bag to the wharf at Circular Quay, not far from where my Irish great-great-grandparents had landed in leg irons, I hoped the point of my...

Commentary Pilger: Smile On The Face Of The Tiger

Commentary, June, 11 2009 John Pilger
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At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu'rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable.

Commentary Pilger: Britain: The Depth Of Corruption

Commentary, May, 29 2009 John Pilger
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The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of...

Commentary Pilger: Sri Lanka: Distant Voices, Desperate Lives

Commentary, May, 14 2009 John Pilger
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In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late at night, speaking in a single breath, spilling out stories of discrimination and injustice. Who listened to their truth until the violence began? Bengalis from what was then East ...

Commentary Pilger: Obama's 100 Days -- The Mad Men Did Well

Commentary, April, 29 2009 John Pilger
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The BBC's American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising a...

Commentary Pilger: Wine: The Reds are Revolting

Commentary, April, 16 2009 John Pilger
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My parents grew up in the mining town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. The main street had hitching posts and was as wide as a paddock, and the general store was shaded by a vast awning of corrugated iron and offered liquori...

Commentary Pilger: Fake Faith and Epic Crimes

Commentary, April, 02 2009 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at N...

Commentary Pilger: War comes home to Britain

Commentary, March, 06 2009 John Pilger
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Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message. Police can willfully shoot t...

Commentary Pilger: Cambodia's Missing Accused

Commentary, February, 24 2009 John Pilger
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At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people walked to the windows and wept. The DJ had played a song by the much-lov...

Commentary Pilger: Hollywood's New Censors

Commentary, February, 20 2009 John Pilger
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When I returned from the war in Vietnam, I wrote a film script as an antidote to the myth that the war had been an ill-fated noble cause. The producer David Puttnam took the draft to Hollywood and offered it to the major studios, whose responses w...

Commentary Pilger: The Politics Of Bollocks

Commentary, February, 06 2009 John Pilger
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Growing up in an Antipodean society proud of its rich variety of expletives, I never heard the word bollocks. It was only on arrival in England that I understood its majesterial power. All classes used it. Judges grunted it; an editor of the Daily...

Commentary Pilger: Come On Down For Your Freedom Medals

Commentary, January, 23 2009 John Pilger
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On 13 January, George W. Bush presented "presidential freedom medals", said to be America's highest recognition of devotion to freedom and peace. Among the recipients were Tony Blair, the epic liar who, with Bush, bears responsibility for the phys...

Commentary Pilger: Holocaust Denied

Commentary, January, 09 2009 John Pilger
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The lying silence of those who know...

Commentary Pilger: Beware Of Obama's Groundhog Day

Commentary, December, 13 2008 John Pilger
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One of the cleverest films I have seen is Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman who finds himself stuck in time. At first he deludes himself that the same day and the same people and the same circumstances offer new opportuniti...

Commentary Pilger: Kafka Has A Rival. The British Foreign Office Lectures Us On Human Rights

Commentary, December, 02 2008 John Pilger
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Today (December 1), a surreal event will take place in the centre of London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of Human Rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human R...

Commentary Pilger: The Corruption That Makes Unpeople Of An Entire Nation

Commentary, November, 27 2008 John Pilger
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I went to the Houses of Parliament on 22 October to join a disconsolate group of shivering people who had arrived from a faraway tropical place and were being prevented from entering the Public Gallery to hear their fate. This was not headline new...

Commentary Pilger: Beware The Obama Hype. What 'Change' In America Really Means

Commentary, November, 13 2008 John Pilger
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My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the line of telegraph poles to the small town of Midlothian, where I met Penn Jones Jr, editor of th...

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