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Commentary Pilger: The Diplomacy Of Lying

Commentary, October, 29 2008 John Pilger
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In 1992, Mark Higson, the Foreign Office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before the Scott inquiry into the scandal of arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein. He described a "culture of lying" at the heart of British foreign policymaking. I ...

Commentary Pilger: The people's sporting star who had 'the grace'

Commentary, October, 14 2008 John Pilger
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The great American athlete John Carlos once described "those people of grace who raise sport to something more than a game". Carlos and Tommie Smith had stood with their black-gloved fists held high on the winners' podium at the 1968 Olympics in M...

Commentary Pilger: South Africa: The Liberation's Betrayal

Commentary, October, 06 2008 John Pilger
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John Pilger describes the 'social and economic catastrophe' that replaced the African National Congress's 'unbreakable' promise' to end the poverty of the majority.

Commentary Pilger: The New World War ---- The Silence Is A Lie

Commentary, September, 25 2008 John Pilger
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Britain's political conference season of 2008 will be remembered as The Great Silence. Politicians have come and gone and their mouths have moved in front of large images of themselves, and they often wave at someone. There has been lots of news a...

Commentary Pilger: A Murderous Theatre Of The Absurd

Commentary, September, 12 2008 John Pilger
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Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.

Commentary Pilger: Don't Forget Yugoslavia

Commentary, August, 16 2008 John Pilger
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The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her...

Commentary Pilger: The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today

Commentary, August, 07 2008 John Pilger
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In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened at...

Commentary Pilger: Obama, The Prince Of Bait-And-Switch

Commentary, July, 24 2008 John Pilger
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On 12 July, the London Times devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the ...

Commentary Pilger: How Britain Wages War

Commentary, July, 13 2008 John Pilger
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Five photographs together break a silence. The first is of a former Gurkha regimental sergeant major, Tul Bahadur Pun, aged 87. He sits in a wheelchair outside 10 Downing Street. He holds a board full of medals, including the Victoria Cross, the h...

Commentary Pilger: In The Great Tradition, Obama Is A Hawk

Commentary, June, 15 2008 John Pilger
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In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: “The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” Wh...

Commentary Pilger: Burma, victim of the 'war on terror'

Commentary, June, 05 2008 John Pilger
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When I phoned Aung San Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon yesterday, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake. Through ragged palms, a trip-wire is visible, a reminder that this is the prison of a woman whose party was elected by a land...

Commentary Pilger: From Kennedy To Obama; Liberalism's Last Fling

Commentary, June, 01 2008 John Pilger
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In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968. Having travelled with Kennedy up ...

Commentary Pilger: Destroying The Best Of Britain

Commentary, May, 10 2008 John Pilger
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When I first came to live in Britain, much of ordinary life was premised on a sense of community. It was mostly undeclared; occasionally, it would become vivid, even heroic. Watching Durham miners, defeated but unbowed by hunger and debt, march ba...

Commentary Pilger: Latin America: The Atack On Democracy

Commentary, April, 25 2008 John Pilger
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Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political ...

Commentary Pilger: The Struggle Against Apartheid Has Begun Again In South Africa / Honouring the 'Unbreakable Promise'

Commentary, April, 12 2008 John Pilger
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Almost fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.

Commentary Pilger: A Tribute To Philip Jones Griffiths, Who Understood War And Peace, And People

Commentary, March, 29 2008 John Pilger
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It was 1970 and we were on our first assignment together and at once became friends, talking about the war as surreal, and mostly about the people, whom he loved.

Commentary Pilger: The "Good Good War" Is A Bad War

Commentary, March, 26 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.

Commentary Pilger: The Quiet Rendition Of Moudud Ahmed

Commentary, March, 13 2008 John Pilger
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The extraordinary life of Moudud Ahmed, who in 1971 led Pilger into liberated East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Now a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Dhaka, Moudud Ahmed is seriously ill in a country which, says his wife Hasna, "...

Commentary Pilger: Australia's Hidden Empire

Commentary, March, 06 2008 John Pilger
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When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence - cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian governments actively encourage this. Witness the recent "G'Day USA" campaig...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Pilger: Exposing The Guardians Of Power

Commentary, December, 01 2007 John Pilger
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Exposing The Guardians Of Power

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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

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