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Pilger: Needed: An Inquiry Into A Slaughter
Znet Article, August, 28 2003
John Pilger
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The 1994 inquiry by Lord Justice Scott into the scandal of Britain's illegal supply of weapons to Saddam Hussein produced memorable moments. There was Mark Higson's detailed description of "a culture of lying" at the Foreign Office, where he was t...
Pilger: Who Are The Extremists?
Znet Article, August, 22 2003
John Pilger
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The "liberat...
Pilger: The Nuclear Love Affair
Znet Article, August, 14 2003
John Pilger
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The Nuclear Love Affair
Pilger: The War On Truth
Znet Article, July, 31 2003
John Pilger
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In Baghdad, the rise and folly of rapacious imperial power is commemorated in a forgotten cemetery called the North Gate. Dogs ar...
Pilger: How Britain Exports Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Znet Article, July, 04 2003
John Pilger
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Unless we apply the lesson "all governments are liars" to our own leaders, British fighter jets and chemical weapons technology will continue to wreck lives all over the world. By John Pilger The conscious nature of Tony Blair's lies and distorti...
Pilger: Bush's Vietnam
Znet Article, June, 22 2003
John Pilger
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America's two "great victories" since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without American guns. Al-Qaeda has not been defeated, and the Taliban ...
Pilger: The Unravelling Of Tony Blair
Znet Article, June, 13 2003
John Pilger
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SUCH a high crime does not, and will not,...
Pilger: Britain Supports Terrorism
Znet Article, May, 26 2003
John Pilger
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In recent weeks, a number of apparently unrelated news reports have, in sum, told a truth that is never reported. According to Human Rights Watch, thousands of British and American cluster bombs were fired at and dropped on civilian areas in Iraq....
Pilger: Journalism?
Znet Article, April, 25 2003
John Pilger
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On 8 April, newspapers around the world carried a despatch from a Reuters correspondent, "embedded" with the US army, about the murder of a ten-year-old Iraqi boy. An American private had "unloaded machine-gun fire and the boy . . . fell dead on a...
Pilger: The Unthinkable Is Becoming Normal
Znet Article, April, 21 2003
John Pilger
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Last Sunday, seated in the audience at the Bafta television awards ceremony, I was struck by the silence. Here were many of the most influential members of the liberal elite, the writers, producers, dramatists, journalists and managers of our ...
Pilger: Crime Against Humanity
Znet Article, April, 10 2003
John Pilger
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A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with "friendly fire", spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head so that she could hear the sound of the ...
Pilger: The War For Truth
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
John Pilger
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The War For Truth
Pilger: We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That's Our Best Defense
Znet Article, April, 05 2003
John Pilger
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We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood drenches them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven in her family are dead. An American Marine murd...
Pilger: Six Days Of Shame
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
John Pilger
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TODAY is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military target". You will not read or hear those words in the establishment media that claims to speak for Britain...
Pilger: Resist
Znet Article, March, 21 2003
John Pilger
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WHEN Bush and Blair begin their illegal and immoral attack on a country that offers us no threat, we all have a choice. We can wring our hands and say there is nothing we can do in the face of such powerful piracy - or we can reclaim the democrac...
Pilger: Blair's Lies
Znet Article, March, 14 2003
John Pilger
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THE Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were almost certainly destroyed following the Gulf War. Of all the pro-war propaganda of Blair and Bush, and their current thre...
Pilger: Disobey
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
John Pilger
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How have we got to this point, where two western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against a stricken nation with whom we have no quarrel and who offer us no threat: an act of aggression opposed by almost everybody and whose char...
Pilger: Blair Hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 28 2003
John Pilger
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Having failed to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and prove that Iraq has a secret armoury of banned weapons, the warmongers have fallen back on the "moral case" for an unprovoked attack on a stricken country. Farce has arrived. We want...
Pilger: A People Betrayed
Znet Article, February, 23 2003
John Pilger
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Dr Al-Ali is a cancer specialist at Basra's hospital and a member of Britain's Royal College of Physicians. He has a neat moustache and a kindly, furrowed face. His starched white coat, like the collar of his shirt, is fray...
Pilger: Begin to make it happen
Znet Article, February, 14 2003
John Pilger
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TOMORROW one of the most important public events in memory will take place in central London. It is not possible to overstate the significance and urgency of the march and demonstration against an unprovoked British and American attack on Iraq, a...
Pilger: Betrayal Of A Noble Legacy
Znet Article, February, 01 2003
John Pilger
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The Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi has described "a deep and unconscious racism [that] imbues every aspect of western conduct toward Iraq". She wrote: "I recall that a similar culture prevailed in the UK during the 1956 Suez crisis and the 1...
Pilger: Blood On Their Hands
Znet Article, January, 29 2003
John Pilger
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William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary peop...
Pilger: George Bush's Other Poodle
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
John Pilger
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George Bush's Other Poodle
Pilger: We Say No To Bush's War: Voices Of The Anti War Opposition
Znet Article, January, 16 2003
John Pilger
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Socialist Worker has compiled an excellent anti war q&a based on interviews conducted with many different voices of the anti-war movement. Norman Solomon: Scene of a war crime to come You were recently in Baghdad. What do you think of the Bu...
Pilger: The Secret War
Znet Article, December, 20 2002
John Pilger
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THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated thei...
Pilger: America's Bid For Global Dominance
Znet Article, December, 12 2002
John Pilger
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The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humani...
Pilger: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
John Pilger
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ON November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack on Iraq more than likely, Downing Street began issuing warnings of imminent terrorist threats against the United Ki...
Pilger: Impartiality Of British Journalism
Znet Article, November, 28 2002
John Pilger
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During a debate on the coverage of the miners' strike at the Edinburgh Television Festival, the BBC's industrial editor at the time, Martin Adeney, described trucks bringing coal to a steelworks as having made a "successful run". As Ken Loach poin...
Pilger: The New Protest Movement
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
John Pilger
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Graham Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above, until those above take one step too far". There is a stirring in this people's world ...
