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Znet Article Pilger: The British Army Rebels Against Propaganda

Znet Article, June, 09 2007 John Pilger
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An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable" w...

Znet Article Pilger: In praise of the 'subversive' documentary

Znet Article, September, 16 2006 John Pilger
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The political documentary, that most powerful and subversive medium, is said to be enjoying a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic. This may be true in the cinema but what of television, the source of most of our information? Like the work of...

Znet Article Pilger: No News Is Slow News

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 John Pilger
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When I began working as a journalist, there was something called "slow news". We would refer to "slow news days" when "nothing happened" - apart from, that is, triumphs and tragedies in faraway places where most of humanity lived. These were rarel...

Znet Article Pilger: Return Of People Power

Znet Article, August, 30 2006 John Pilger
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In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his "secret war" against Central America. What is striking is the relentless lying. A department of lying was set up under Reagan with...

Znet Article Pilger: In Palestine, a War on Children

Znet Article, June, 17 2006 John Pilger
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Arthur Miller wrote, "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally de...

Znet Article Pilger: The Last Taboo

Znet Article, June, 07 2006 John Pilger
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John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal sta...

Znet Article Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun

Znet Article, November, 25 2005 John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Znet Article, November, 10 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...

Znet Article Pilger: The Silence of Writers

Znet Article, October, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...

Znet Article Pilger: Suharto to Iraq

Znet Article, October, 15 2005 John Pilger
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"The propagandist’s purpose,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...

Znet Article Pilger: Sinister Events In A Cynical War

Znet Article, September, 27 2005 John Pilger
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Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what we...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State

Znet Article, August, 18 2005 John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...

Znet Article Pilger: Fascism Then And Now

Znet Article, August, 02 2005 John Pilger
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We gathered, the other day, at the International Brigades’ Memorial in Jubilee Park beside the Thames in London. It was warm with no breeze, “a Spanish day”, one of the Brigaders said. Like the others, all in their eighties...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair Is Unfit To Be Prime Minister

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 John Pilger
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The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling to be heard. It is being said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the public breaks the silen...

Znet Article Pilger: From Iraq To The G8

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 John Pilger
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Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers...

Znet Article Pilger: The Propaganda War On Democracy

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive". He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-ma...

Znet Article Pilger: The Fall Of Saigon 1975: An Eye Witness Report

Znet Article, April, 16 2005 John Pilger
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Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against the French windows. The bed was meant to shield me from flying glass; but if the hotel was attacked with rockets, the bed would ...

Znet Article Pilger: Other Blood On Their Hands

Znet Article, March, 17 2005 John Pilger
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While apologists for Bush's and Blair's murderous adventure in Iraq see a "silver lining" in pseudo-events in the Middle East, real events in Colombia illuminate the universal nature of their "mission". The latest tells a horrific story that, ...

Znet Article Pilger: The fall of Saigon

Znet Article, March, 06 2005 John Pilger
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Saigon, April 1975. At dawn I was awake, lying under my mattress on the floor tiles, peering at my bed propped against the French windows. The bed was meant to shield me from flying glass; but if the hotel was attacked with rockets, the bed would ...

Znet Article Pilger: Not In Our Name

Znet Article, February, 04 2005 John Pilger
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As George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term, let it not be said that people in the United States silently acquiesced in the face of this shameful coronation of war, greed, and intolerance. He does not speak for us. He does not represent us....

Znet Article Pilger: Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11: A Matter Of

Znet Article, November, 12 2004 John Pilger
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Edward S Herman's landmark essay, "The Banality of Evil", has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationa...

Znet Article Pilger: The Secret Files That Reveal How A Nation Was Deported

Znet Article, October, 22 2004 John Pilger
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Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some of its most vulnerable citizens. What they tell is a shocking, almost incredible story in which the Blair Govern...

Znet Article Pilger: Australia's Samidzat

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 John Pilger
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In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were owned by 50 corporations. In 2002, this had fallen to nine transnational companies. Rampant deregulation has ended even a semblance ...

Znet Article Pilger: The Most Important Terrorism Is 'Ours'

Znet Article, September, 16 2004 John Pilger
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The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and "us". That is the unerring message from western governments, press, radio and television. For Islam, read terrorists. It is reminiscent of the cold war, when the world was divided between "Re...

Znet Article Pilger: The Warlords of America

Znet Article, September, 08 2004 John Pilger
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Most of the US's recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake; Bush may be the lesser evil. On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a reso...

Znet Article Pilger: India:the Betrayal.

Znet Article, September, 07 2004 John Pilger
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The crows beat their wings against the bay windows, waiting to ascend and dive. Their cries are incessant; it is their apocalyptic swarm that is different in India. They dance in the rain and wait in the yellow heat of unyielding farmland turned...

Znet Article Pilger: Bush Versus Kerry: The Fake Debate

Znet Article, August, 25 2004 John Pilger
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On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which,in effect, authorised a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran. The vote was 376/3. Undeterred by the accelerating disaster in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats,wrote one commentator, "o...

Znet Article Pilger: Documentaries

Znet Article, July, 10 2004 John Pilger
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BRITAIN remains one of the few countries where documentaries are still shown on mainstream television in the hours when most people are awake. But documentaries that go against the received wisdom and inform are becoming an endangered species, at ...

Znet Article Pilger: Australia's Dark Secret

Znet Article, July, 07 2004 John Pilger
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On 8 July, BBC television showed an outstanding documentary called The Boy from the Block. It is about Australia and opens with a picture postcard view of the Australian beach and its board riders and bikinis, and progresses to the popping of cork...

Znet Article Pilger: Reading List

Znet Article, June, 24 2004 John Pilger
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First it was Reagan, now it is Clinton. The homage continues. When Reagan died, Gavin Esler, one of th...

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