Commentaries
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- Friday, Mar 12, 2010
Commentary Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr... -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
Commentary I phoned Rami Elhanan the other day. We had not spoken for six years and much has happened in Israel and Palestine. Rami is an Israeli graphic designer who lives with his family in Jerusalem. His father survived Auschwitz. His grandparents and six... -
- Thursday, Feb 11, 2010
Commentary Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occu... -
- Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
Commentary The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis... -
- Sunday, Jan 17, 2010
Commentary The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with u... -
- Thursday, Dec 31, 2009
Commentary In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the pre... -
- Friday, Dec 11, 2009
Commentary I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day only to learn he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honorable man. We met soon after he had resigned from the Foreign Office in 1991 and I asked him if the government knew that Hawk fighter-bom... -
- Friday, Nov 27, 2009
Commentary I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, their silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway were d... -
- Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
Commentary When General Suharto, the west's man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered "a gleam of light in Asia", rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million "communists" was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard N... -
- Saturday, Nov 07, 2009
Commentary Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It's an honour I cherish, because it comes from where I come from. -
- Friday, Oct 30, 2009
Commentary John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Ric... -
- Thursday, Oct 22, 2009
Commentary The postal workers' struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war... -
- Saturday, Oct 17, 2009
Commentary Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hell... -
- Thursday, Oct 15, 2009
Commentary In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection†to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass... -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
Commentary In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea... -
- Friday, Sep 18, 2009
Commentary On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his "major policy speech" on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the... -
- Saturday, Sep 05, 2009
Commentary The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown's "repulsion" to Barack Obama's "outrage", the theatre of lies an... -
- Saturday, Aug 22, 2009
Commentary On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian d... -
- Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
ZNet Article A summer reading list for those who aren't interested in listening to lies about the war or media PR. -
- Friday, Aug 07, 2009
Commentary These are extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire high street. Victory in Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC... -
- Saturday, Jul 25, 2009
Commentary I met Eddie Spearritt in the Philharmonic pub, overlooking Liverpool. It was a few years after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Eddie's son, Adam, aged 14, died in his arms.... -
- Saturday, Jul 11, 2009
Commentary The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with a unit of US marines whose orders were to win hearts and minds. "We are here not to kill," ... -
- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
Commentary T S Eliot wrote that the point of any journey was to find out where you came from. As I bore my bulging canvas bag to the wharf at Circular Quay, not far from where my Irish great-great-grandparents had landed in leg irons, I hoped the point of my... -
- Thursday, Jun 11, 2009
Commentary At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu'rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable. -
- Friday, May 29, 2009
Commentary The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of... -
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
Commentary In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late at night, speaking in a single breath, spilling out stories of discrimination and injustice. Who listened to their truth until the violence began? Bengalis from what was then East ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009
Commentary The BBC's American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising a... -
- Thursday, Apr 16, 2009
Commentary My parents grew up in the mining town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. The main street had hitching posts and was as wide as a paddock, and the general store was shaded by a vast awning of corrugated iron and offered liquori... -
- Thursday, Apr 02, 2009
Commentary These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at N... -
- Friday, Mar 06, 2009
Commentary Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message. Police can willfully shoot t... - All Commentaries
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ZMag Content
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- Monday, Nov 01, 1999
ZMag Article Pilger
NY: New
Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp.
Review by
Anthony Arnove
John
Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death
of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has
wri... - All ZMag Content
ZNet Articles
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- Saturday, Jun 17, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Jun 07, 2006
ZNet Article
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... -
- Friday, Nov 25, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Nov 10, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Oct 16, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Oct 15, 2005
ZNet Article "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... -
- Thursday, Aug 18, 2005
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jul 07, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Nov 12, 2004
ZNet Article 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... - All ZNet Articles
Blogs
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- Saturday, Dec 20, 2008
Blog Post The good news for the new year is as follows... -
- Thursday, Jun 26, 2008
Blog Post The British lawyer Gareth Peirce, celebrated for her defence of miscarriage of justice victims, wrote recently: “Over the years of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: internment, ‘shoot ... - All Blogs
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- Thursday, Sep 17, 2009
Video An excerpt from John Pilger's documentary The War on Democracy, which recounts the involvement of the United States government in the brutal 1973 military coup that overthrew the democratic socialist government of President Salvador Allende -- par... -
- Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009
Video Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09. -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video The War On Democracy is a powerful new documentary from award winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger. Video Produced, Written and Presented by John Pilger.
Collaboration work between IGJ (Institute for Global Justice) and INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development) for public socialization in order to criticize globalization and the imp... Video Produced, Written, and Presented by John Pilger. Video Produced, Written, and Presented by John Pilger. Video Produced, Written and Presented by John Pilger. - All Videos
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- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book Well-known journalist and filmmaker Pilger remains faithful to his decades-long quest to penetrate the citadel of political power and show that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Reminding readers that "if power was truly invincible, it would ... - All My Books
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