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Tony Blair’s heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following…
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.
Since 11 September, the “war on terrorism†has provided a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further…
By spreading ‘fear and respect’, as a Washington Post reporter put it, America intends to see off challenges to its uncertain ability…
The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means that America’s economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of…
If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised? Two days earlier, eight people…
At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a…
At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a…
The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters…
The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical…
Pilger As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the…