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We gathered, the other day, at the International Brigades’ Memorial in Jubilee Park beside the Thames in London. It was warm with…
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Based mostly in the UK since 1962, John Pilger has been an internationally influential investigative reporter, a strong critic of Australian, British and American foreign policy since his early reporting days in Vietnam, and has also condemned official treatment of Indigenous Australians. Twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, he has won many other awards for his documentaries on foreign affairs and culture. He was also a cherished ZFriend.
The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling…
In all the coverage of the bombing of London, a truth has struggled to be heard. With honourable exceptions, it has been…
In all the coverage of last week’s bombing of London, a basic truth struggled to be heard. It has been said quietly,…
Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related ‘global’ events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on…
The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, “55 billion Africa debt deal ‘a victory for millions’.” The “victory…
The National Union of Journalists and the Blair government are planning a “launch” ceremony, at which they will announce their “partnership”. According…
From the air, there appeared to be nobody, no movement, not even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had…
In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote “Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive”. He described…
A familiar, if desperate media push is under way to convince the British people that the main political parties offer them a…