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Pilger: Bali/Australia/Terror
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
John Pilger
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For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the ...
Pilger: To The Streets
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
John Pilger
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A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London. In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on wh...
Pilger: Diplomacy?
Znet Article, September, 19 2002
John Pilger
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The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990, a vers...
Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue
Pilger: This War Is A Failure
Znet Article, September, 11 2002
John Pilger
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THE anniversary of September 11 will be remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering people will, or ought to be, unqualified and universal. ...
Pilger: The Great Charade
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
John Pilger
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It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the 'war on ter...
Pilger: Our Writers Failure
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
John Pilger
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On 17 June, I wrote about Martin Amis's recent Guardian essay, "The voice of the lonely crowd", in which he described the response of acclaimed writers like himself to 11 September as a "pitiable babble". In fact, they were and remain most...
Pilger: A Not -So- Free Press
Znet Article, July, 17 2002
John Pilger
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On 4 July, the front page of the Daily Mirror was as powerful as any I have known, a tabloid at its best. George W Bush was flanked by a row of Stars and Stripes, chin up, eyes misted. "Mourn on the Fourth of July," said the banner headline. Above...
Pilger: The Great Charade
Znet Article, July, 14 2002
John Pilger
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The Great Charade
Pilger: Wasted Freedom
Znet Article, July, 12 2002
John Pilger
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"Freedom of the press" is a phrase that sounds well. But in the world of George W Bush and Enron, freedom is not meant to be that free. On 4 July, the front page of the Daily Mirror was as powerful as any I have known, a tabloid at its best. Geor...
Pilger: Leading Rogue State And It's Mercenaries
Znet Article, July, 07 2002
John Pilger
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Shooting at shadows, and the occasional tribesman, blowing up mounds of dirt and displaying "captured" arms for the media, all have been part of the Marines' humiliating role in Afghanistan - a role foisted upon them by the Blair government, whose...
Pilger: Israel's Secret Shame
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
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Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs. Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has p...
Pilger: Our Writers' Failure
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
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Martin Amis represents a problem: that some of the most acclaimed and privileged writers in the English language fail to engage with the most urgent issues of our time. On 1 June, the Guardian published a long essay by Martin Amis, entitled "Th...
Pilger: Ethnic Cleansing And The Establishment Of Israel
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
John Pilger
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Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has passed almost unnoticed outside academic circles; yet its wider significance is epic. In May 1948, more than 200 Palestinians were killed by the advancing Jewish militia in...
Pilger: How Britain's Armaments Fuel War And Poverty
Znet Article, May, 30 2002
John Pilger
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With nuclear powers India and Pakistan on the edge of war, the role of the Blair government in fuelling the conflict has been critical. In the year 2000, the Government approved nearly 700 export licences for weapons and military equipment to both...
Pilger: Clare Short's treatment of Ghana
Znet Article, May, 06 2002
John Pilger
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Clare Short promotes herself expertly in the media. She is the "rebel" in the Blair cabinet, the outspoken rough diamond opposed to "those privileged middle-class types" who challenge the diktats of the World Bank, of which she is a governor. In t...
Pilger: Hollywood Hurrah
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
John Pilger
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I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri's film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most of her remarkable work about the Palestinians, ten films in all, it has not been shown in the cinema or on television in this countr...
Pilger: Not in our name
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
John Pilger
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President George W Bush yesterday called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the last week. He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East on the need for re...
Pilger: Should We Go To War Against These Children?
Znet Article, March, 23 2002
John Pilger
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A compliant press is preparing the ground for an all-out attack on Iraq. It never mentions the victims: the young, the old and the vulnerable : John Pilger : New Statesman, 21 Mar 2002 The promised attack on Iraq will test free journalism ...
Pilger: Venezuela: The Next Chile?
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
John Pilger
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Venezuela: The Next Chile?
Pilger: THE CAMP X-RAY CONCENTRATION CAMP
Znet Article, March, 01 2002
John Pilger
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THE CAMP X-RAY CONCENTRATION CAMP
Pilger: Asylum Seekers in Australia
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
John Pilger
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Asylum Seekers in Australia
Pilger: The Colder War
Znet Article, January, 29 2002
John Pilger
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LAST week, the US government announced that it was building the bigg...
Pilger: Australia: Apartheid?
Znet Article, January, 29 2002
John Pilger
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Australia: Apartheid?
Pilger: Blair's Disguised Support for Sharon and the Zionist Project
Znet Article, January, 14 2002
John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...
Pilger: Blair's meeting with Arafat
Znet Article, January, 14 2002
John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...
