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In Baghdad, the rise and folly of rapacious imperial power is commemorated in a forgotten cemetery called the North Gate. Dogs are…
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.
Unless we apply the lesson “all governments are liars” to our own leaders, British fighter jets and chemical weapons technology will continue…
America’s two “great victories” since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and…
SUCH a high crime does not, and will not, melt away; the facts cannot be changed. Tony Blair took Britain to war…
In his latest article for the Daily Mirror, John Pilger argues that the “high crime” of the invasion of Iraq that “will…
In recent weeks, a number of apparently unrelated news reports have, in sum, told a truth that is never reported. According to…
On 8 April, newspapers around the world carried a despatch from a Reuters correspondent, “embedded” with the US army, about the murder…
Last Sunday, seated in the audience at the Bafta television awards ceremony, I was struck by the silence. Here were many of…
A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”, spoke…
WE HAD a great day,” said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. “We killed a lot of people.” He…