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John Pilger
John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and author.
Silencing the lambs: John Pilger on how propaganda works
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…
The judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange
Britain’s high court showed no hesitation in sending Julian Assange to his death, living or otherwise.
Julian Assange: A day in the death of British justice
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…
Hollywood’s new censors
Film critics rarely question the corporate control exhibited in movies such as <i>Munich</i>, which endorse Israeli policy.
Obama — we should dry our eyes quickly
The histrionics of Obamamania have permitted no scrutiny of liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship.
The art of lying
In 1992 Mark Higson, the UK foreign office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before an inquiry into arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein.
The downfall of Mbeki: The hidden truth
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
E-squire? Magazine woos readers with electronic ink
Esquire has sought to brush aside the gloom pervading the print industry by unveiling a genuine first: a cover partly of electronic ink.
The real nuclear threat
The US and its allies pose the biggest danger to world peace
The way Britain wages war
The British public remains largely unaware of the industrial killing of civilians in Britain’s modern colonial wars.
The silent war on Africa
In South Africa, the Mbeki government has been suckered by British arms companies into buying 24 Hawk fighter jets at £17-million each.
Barack Obama’s truth and lies
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.
Australia’s secret, dirty empire
When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence — cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian…
Keeping the ‘unbreakable promise’
”’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…
Bringing down the new Berlin Walls
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…