John Pilger
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him."
Articles by John Pilger
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Australasia
Days of sunshine and grace
- 09 October 2008
Sep was tall, handsome and languid, with a laconic half-smile like Errol Flynn's. On Saturdays he would show us slick dives off a Bondi bogie hole. John Pilger on a star that the world never knew
UK Politics
Truth and war mean nothing at the party conferences
- 25 September 2008
- 15 comments
The media turns the other way, or perverts the truth, while an increasingly imperialist United States, with Britain in tow, pursues its expansionist interests
Media
Our murderous comedy of errors
- 11 September 2008
- 27 comments
Last month, “our” aircraft slaughtered nearly 100 Afghan civilians, two-thirds of them children aged three months to 16 years, while they slept
Europe
Don't forget what happened in Yugoslavia
- 14 August 2008
- 54 comments
Even as Blair the war leader was on a triumphant tour of "liberated" Kosovo, the KLA was ethnically cleansing more than 200,000 Serbs and Roma from the province
Media
Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
- 24 July 2008
- 91 comments
I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb - but mass murder in Afghanistan isn't news
UK Politics
How Britain wages war
- 10 July 2008
- 84 comments
The military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny
Middle East
From triumph to torture
- 03 July 2008
- 14 comments
How Palestinian journalist and NS contributor Mohammed Omer left Gaza to receive an award only to be brutalised on his return by the Israeli security organisation Shin Bet
Media
Fabricate that fear
- 26 June 2008
- 103 comments
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
Media
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- 12 June 2008
- 23 comments
Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating bullshit on a grand scale
North America
After Bobby Kennedy
- 29 May 2008
- 73 comments
Bobby Kennedy's campaign is the model for Barack Obama's current bid to be the Democratic nominee for the White House. Both offer a false hope that they can bring peace and racial harmony to all Americans, writes John Pilger
