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The Palestinians are no longer alone; Israel, despite the craven intimidation of some of its supporters, has ceased to be immune from…
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.
A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the…
The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990,…
LAST October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains; and…
THE anniversary of September 11 will be remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The…
Remembering 11 September merely as gruesome spectacle is an insult to the victims of that epic crime. However, remembering is important in…
It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous…
On 17 June, I wrote about Martin Amis’s recent Guardian essay, “The voice of the lonely crowd”, in which he described…
On 4 July, the front page of the Daily Mirror was as powerful as any I have known, a tabloid at its…
It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous…