John Pilger

  • Pilger interview: Truth and lies in the 'war on terror'

    Journalist John Pilger will be speaking at a public meeting in Sydney on February 15, the anniversary of the biggest ever global protests against war. Pip Hinman spoke to Pilger about the truth and lies in the "war on terror". What do you make of

  • I know when Blair and Bush are lying - their lips move

    Shortly before the disastrous visit to Britain by US President George Bush on November 19-21, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was at the Cenotaph on November 11 to mark Remembrance Day. It was an unusual glimpse of a state killer

  • John Pilger: How press barons, governments silence dissent

    Australian novelist Richard Flanagan was recently asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to read a favourite piece of fiction on national radio and explain his reasons for the choice. "I was unsure what fiction to

  • JOHN PILGER: Bush's 'war on terror' is a cruel hoax

    At the British Labour Party conference following the September 11, 2001, attacks, Prime Minister Tony Blair said memorably: "To the Afghan people, we make this commitment. We will not walk away... If the Taliban regime changes, we

  • IRAQ: Epic suffering is made invisible

    LONDON — For the past few weeks, I have been watching videotapes of the US-led attack on Iraq. Most of the tapes have not bee shown in Britain. They concentrate on the epic suffering of ordinary Iraqis. There are photographs, too,

  • IRAQ: Outside extremists bring death and destruction

    LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of

  • John Pilger: Bush's Vietnam

    America's two "great victories" since September 11, 2001, are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without US guns. Al Qaeda has not been defeated, and

  • BRITAIN: 'WMD' will be on Blair's political headstone

    LONDON, June 3 — Such a high crime does not, and will not, melt away; the facts cannot be changed. Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain to war against Iraq illegally. He mounted an unprovoked attack on a country that offered no

  • IRAQ: Pilger: 'A crime against humanity'

    LONDON, April 10 — A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by a US fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”, spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head so

  • IRAQ: Six days of shame

    LONDON, March 26 — Today is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military target". You will not read or hear those words in the establishment

  • John Pilger: 'Success need not be a dream'

    How have we got to the point where a handful of Western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against Iraq, a stricken country with which we have no quarrel and offers no threat: an act of aggression opposed by