How we are gentrified, impoverished and silenced – if we allow it
August 3, 2013 7:03 am Leave your thoughts
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds, writes John Pilger.
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There is a war on ordinary people and feminists are needed at the front
June 19, 2013 11:36 am Leave your thoughts The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class, writes John Pilger.
Hold the front page! We need free media, not an Order of Mates
May 14, 2013 9:29 am Leave your thoughts The other day, I stood outside the strangely silent building where I began life as a journalist. It is no longer the human warren that was Consolidated Press in Sydney. It seems in Australia, hard-won rights are being buried beneath corporate might, writes John Pilger.
Dance on Thatcher’s grave, but remember there has been a coup in Britain
April 27, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts In the wake of Thatcher's departure, John Pilger remembers her victims both at home and abroad, from miners to Vietnamese children.
The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital
April 1, 2013 12:36 pm Leave your thoughts What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis, writes John Pilger.
WikiLeaks is a rare truth-teller
February 15, 2013 2:58 pm Leave your thoughts WikiLeaks is a rare example of a newsgathering organisation that exposes the truth. Julian Assange is by no means alone, writes John Pilger.
The real invasion of Africa is not news and a licence to lie is Hollywood’s gift
February 1, 2013 9:33 am Leave your thoughts It is as if Africa's proud history of liberation has been consigned to oblivion by a new master's black colonial elite, writes John Pilger.
Welcome to the Shammies, the media awards that recognise truly unsung talent
January 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts There are awards for everyone. There are the Logies, the Commies, the Tonys, the Theas, the Millies ("They cried with pride") and now the Shammies, writes John Pilger
As Gaza is savaged again, understanding the BBC’s historical role is vital
November 27, 2012 8:43 am Leave your thoughts We must understand the BBC as a pre-eminent state propagandist and censor by omission, says John Pilger.
The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in America
November 9, 2012 12:48 pm Leave your thoughts The political trial and 22-year sentence of Dr Rafil Dhafir, an Iraqi-born doctor and humanitarian, makes a mockery of the notion that all are equal in the eyes of US law, writes John Pilger.