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“Freedom of the press” is a phrase that sounds well. But in the world of George W Bush and Enron, freedom is…
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.
Shooting at shadows, and the occasional tribesman, blowing up mounds of dirt and displaying “captured” arms for the media, all have been…
If you got your news only from the television, you would have no idea of the roots of the Middle East conflict,…
Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody…
Martin Amis represents a problem: that some of the most acclaimed and privileged writers in the English language fail to engage with…
Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has passed almost unnoticed outside academic circles; yet its wider significance…
With nuclear powers India and Pakistan on the edge of war, the role of the Blair government in fuelling the conflict has…
Clare Short promotes herself expertly in the media. She is the “rebel” in the Blair cabinet, the outspoken rough diamond opposed to…
Last month, I wrote about Venezuela, pointing out that little had been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez…
I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri’s film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most…