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Commentary Pilger: The War Lovers

Commentary, March, 23 2006 John Pilger
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The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favourite. A few would say they wer...

Commentary Pilger: The Secret War Against The Defenceless People Of West Papua

Commentary, March, 11 2006 John Pilger
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In 1993, I and four others travelled clandestinely across East Timor to gather evidence of the genocide committed by the Indonesian dictatorship. Such was the depth of silence about this tiny country that the only map I could find before I set out...

Commentary Pilger: Put Out More Flags: The Making Of Another America

Commentary, February, 24 2006 John Pilger
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The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the art-deco Valhalla in Sydney, one of the world's best at putting out powerful, political documentaries. The lack of fuss might have seemed surprising in a city whose ...

Commentary Pilger: The Next War -- Crossing The Rubicon

Commentary, February, 11 2006 John Pilger
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Has Tony Blair, the minuscule Caesar, finally crossed his Rubicon? Having subverted the laws of the civilised world and brought carnage to a defenceless people and bloodshed to his own, having lied and lied and used the death of a hundredth Britis...

Commentary Pilger: A First-Rate Country Run by Second-Rate People

Commentary, January, 21 2006 John Pilger
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Shortly after Christmas, the Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer died

Commentary Pilger: The Quiet Death Of Freedom

Commentary, January, 06 2006 John Pilger
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On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and su...

Commentary Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Commentary, November, 11 2005 John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...

Commentary Pilger: The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Commentary, October, 28 2005 John Pilger
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An RAF officer is about to be tried before a military court for

Commentary Pilger: News From Behind The Facade

Commentary, September, 20 2005 John Pilger
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When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had taken refuge from the violence of the Deep South...

Commentary Pilger: Truth Struggling

Commentary, July, 21 2005 John Pilger
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In all the coverage of the bombing of London, a truth has struggled to be heard. With honourable exceptions, it has been said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the public has broken the silence, as an East Londoner did when he w...

Commentary Pilger: Blair's Bombs

Commentary, July, 12 2005 John Pilger
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In all the coverage of last week's bombing of London, a basic truth struggled to be heard. It has been said quietly, politely, guardedly, as if it might somehow dishonour the dead, instead of speaking truth to the cause. While not doubting the atr...

Commentary Pilger: The G8 Summit: A Fraud And A Circus

Commentary, June, 24 2005 John Pilger
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The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, "55 billion Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'." The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time i...

Commentary Pilger: Sleeping With The Enemy

Commentary, June, 11 2005 John Pilger
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The National Union of Journalists and the Blair government are planning a "launch" ceremony, at which they will announce their "partnership". According to John Fray, the NUJ's deputy general secretary, this collaboration will "promote awareness am...

Commentary Pilger: Cambodia: A Victim Of 'Aid'

Commentary, May, 29 2005 John Pilger
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From the air, there appeared to be nobody, no movement, not even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the Mekong river. Even the patchwork of rice paddies and fields was barely discernible; nothing seemed to have been plant...

Commentary Pilger: In Britain, An Absurdity: Persuading People They Have A Political Choice

Commentary, April, 29 2005 John Pilger
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A familiar, if desperate media push is under way to convince the British people that the main political parties offer them a democratic choice in the general election on 5 May. This demonstrable absurdity became hilarious when Tony Blair, leader o...

Commentary Pilger: Bringing You The News

Commentary, April, 08 2005 John Pilger
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COURTESY OF THE LAW OF OPPOSITES

Commentary Pilger: Pilger To Antiwar Rally: 'be Proud Of What You've Achieved.'

Commentary, March, 25 2005 John Pilger
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Sydney Hyde Park, 20 March 2005:

Commentary Pilger: Protecting A Regime With Blood On Its Hands

Commentary, March, 04 2005 John Pilger
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Almost eight years ago, the choir of British liberalism celebrated a new age. Tony Blair, wrote the liberal thinker Hugo Young, "wants to create a world none of us have known", a world which "ideology has surrendered entirely to 'values' [and wher...

Commentary Pilger: Attacking Our Memory

Commentary, February, 19 2005 John Pilger
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How does thought control work in societies that call themselves free? Why are famous journalists so eager, almost as a reflex, to minimise the culpability of political leaders such as Bush and Blair who share responsibility for the unprovoked atta...

Commentary Pilger: Australia: The Sickening Of Democracy

Commentary, February, 04 2005 John Pilger
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National myths are usually partly true. In Australia, the myth of an egalitarian society, or "fair go", has an extraordinary history. Long before most of the world, Australia had a minimum wage, a 35-hour working week, child benefits and the vote...

Commentary Pilger: We Should Never Forget Burma

Commentary, January, 24 2005 John Pilger
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I tried to phone her the other day. I still have a number she gave me, which I could call infrequently and exchange a few words. It was fruitless to try this time; the hurried click at the other end was an echo of her Kafkaesque oppression. The is...

Commentary Pilger: The Other, Man-made Tsunami

Commentary, January, 07 2005 John Pilger
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The west's crusaders, the United States and Britain, are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth bomber or a week's bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for George Bush's coming inauguration party would rebuild much of th...

Commentary Pilger: How Silent Are The 'humanitarian' Invaders Of Kosovo?

Commentary, December, 09 2004 John Pilger
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Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the international "humanitarian" war party ought to be called to account for its largely forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Tony Blair's "onward march of liberation". Just as...

Commentary Pilger: Will There Be A War Against The World After November 2?

Commentary, October, 27 2004 John Pilger
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There is a surreal quality about visiting the United States in the last days of the presidential campaign. If George W Bush wins, according to a scientist I met, who escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, America will surrender many of its democratic trap...

Commentary Pilger: Stealing A Nation

Commentary, October, 13 2004 John Pilger
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There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastro...

Commentary Pilger: The Media Culpability for Iraq

Commentary, October, 11 2004 John Pilger
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In October 1999, I stood in a ward of dying children in Baghdad with Denis Halliday, who the previous year had resigned as assistant secretary general of the United Nations. He said: "We are waging a war through the United Nations on the people of...

Commentary Pilger: The Fall And Rise Of Liberal England

Commentary, October, 11 2003 John Pilger
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In his latest New Statesman article, John Pilger describes how the public arbiters of liberal England embraced the Blair 'project', notably the four wars he has engaged Britain in, and how their message, like Blair himself, has now been shunned by...

Commentary Pilger: Lies and More Lies

Commentary, September, 24 2003 John Pilger
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EXACTLY one year ago, Tony Blair told Parliament: "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing.

Commentary Pilger: Who Are The Extremists?

Commentary, August, 24 2003 John Pilger
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Who Are The Extremists?

Commentary Pilger: The Unravelling Of Tony Blair

Commentary, June, 04 2003 John Pilger
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In his latest article for the Daily Mirror, John Pilger argues that the "high crime" of the invasion of Iraq that "will not melt away" and says the catalogue of Tony Blair's deceptions are now being revealed by the day, unravelling what was left o...

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