John Pilger: Why Hillary Clinton Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
October 30, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The following is an edited version of an address given by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled 'A World War Has Begun'.
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The return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s war on Palestine, Ukraine and the truth
July 14, 2014 11:21 am Leave your thoughts
In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the liberal "one-way, legal/moral screen" behind which great power and its Orwellian propaganda ensure an impunity for war and deception, dependent on what Leni Riefenstahl called our "submissive void".
The forgotten coup – and how the godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev
March 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Washington's role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed, writes John Pilger.
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting
February 17, 2014 6:48 pm Leave your thoughts
The regime that Washington created in the South, the "good" Korea, was set up and run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America, writes John Pilger.
The accessories to war crimes are those paid to keep the record straight
February 9, 2014 9:09 pm Leave your thoughts The BBC's Today programme is enjoying high ratings, and the Mail and the Telegraph are, as usual, attacking the corporation as left-wing
In India, a spectre for us all, and a resistance coming
January 7, 2014 1:33 pm Leave your thoughts Neoliberalism has failed the vast majority of India's people. But the spirit that gave the nation independence is stirring, writes John Pilger.
Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in Australia
December 23, 2013 1:41 pm Leave your thoughts In the late 1960s, I was given an usual assignment by the London Daily Mirror's editor in chief, Hugh Cudlipp. I was to return to my homeland, Australia, and "discover what lies behind the sunny face", writes John Pilger.
One of the truest journalists is a cartoonist armed with a penguin
November 7, 2013 12:42 pm Leave your thoughts Steve Bell is a contemporary Hogarth, with a touch of Peter Sellers, writes John Pilger.
Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it
October 24, 2013 12:23 pm Leave your thoughts Unlike the babbling brook of Hollywood - with its suppression of truth, fake heroes and warmongering - a masterpiece, or just a good movie, is unforgettable, writes John Pilger.
From Hiroshima to Syria, the enemy whose name we dare not speak
September 14, 2013 4:40 pm Leave your thoughts John Pilger writes that regardless of diplomatic attempts to delay an attack on Syria, the US objective has nothing to do with chemical weapons and everything to do with wiping out the last independent states in the Middle East.