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John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and author.
If we want to avoid seeing the world through an imperial one-way mirror in which “we” are moral and benign and “they” are not, we must extract ourselves from the submissive void…
Britain’s high court showed no hesitation in sending Julian Assange to his death, living or otherwise.
John Pilger examines the latest arguments presented by the US in its bid to extradite Julian Assange, and the continuing persecution of the whistleblower and his partner Stella…
Film critics rarely question the corporate control exhibited in movies such as <i>Munich</i>, which endorse Israeli policy.
The histrionics of Obamamania have permitted no scrutiny of liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship.
In 1992 Mark Higson, the UK foreign office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before an inquiry into arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein.
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
Esquire has sought to brush aside the gloom pervading the print industry by unveiling a genuine first: a cover partly of electronic ink.
The US and its allies pose the biggest danger to world peace
The British public remains largely unaware of the industrial killing of civilians in Britain’s modern colonial wars.
In South Africa, the Mbeki government has been suckered by British arms companies into buying 24 Hawk fighter jets at £17-million each.
Had he not been assassinated 40 years ago this week, Robert Kennedy would have been elected president of the United States. Kennedy’s campaign is a model for Barack Obama.
When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence — cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian…
”’Democracy’ is now the free market — a concept itself bereft of freedom. ‘Reform’ is now the denial of reform. ‘Economics’ is the relegation of most human endeavour to material…
The highest and oldest wall is that which separates ”us” from ”them”. This is described today as a great divide of religions or ”a clash of civilisations”, which are false…
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter’s wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had…
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter’s wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had…
Just as the London bombs in the summer of 2005 were Blair’s bombs, the inevitable consequence of his government’s lawless attack on Iraq, so the potential bombs in the summer of…
Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is imprisoning an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza. The attacks, reported on Britain’s…
The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. ”They were sick and…
