In his latest essay, John Pilger evokes the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s, which gave rise to Pol Pot and the genocidal Khmer Rouge, in examining the rise of the equally fanatical ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the role of Western governments, and the urgent need for solutions that include a truce in Syria, and justice for the Palestinians.
Western war reporting is selective and the real stories of the Kosovan crisis remain largely untold
Last week, 14 members of the same Iraqi family were reportedly killed
when their house was hit by a missile. There were no military
installations nearby.
Blair shed his tears for Diana. Does he have any for the 6,000 children being killed by the west in Iraq each month?
Whether or not General Pinochet is sent for trial, the question
looms: who is next? Henry Kissinger and George Bush come to mind. Their
terrorism is documented from Chile to South-east Asia.
Whatever the Defence Secretary says, the killing of 82 Iraqi civilians is a crime, which has achieved nothing
The New Statesman last week published a letter from the Defence
Secretary, George Robertson, who took exception to my description of his
government’s recent actions in Iraq as murder.
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were almost certainly destroyed following the Gulf War
The Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to
office in 1997, that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were almost
certainly destroyed following the Gulf War.
Importance of the march against Iraq attack
It is not possible to overstate the significance and urgency of the
march and demonstration against an unprovoked British and American
attack on Iraq, a nation with whom we have no quarrel and who offer us
no threat.
Our children are learning lies
In our schools, children learn that the US fought the Vietnam war
against a “communist threat” to “us”. Is it any wonder that so many
don’t understand the truth about Iraq?
Normalising the crime of the century
John Pilger describes the lonely death of an honourable man, a whistleblower, as striking contrast to those British politicians and officials now running for cover from the part they played in the invasion of Iraq, the crime of the 21st century.
The press is obsessed with petty vendettas while British ministers continue to support a silent holocaust
There was a great deal of publicity and empathy last week for the four tourists, two of them Britons, murdered in Yemen. There has been nothing for the 68 Iraqi civilians murdered by the American and British governments shortly before Christmas.
Squeezed to Death
Half a million children have died in Iraq since UN sanctions were imposed – most enthusiastically by Britain and the US. Three UN officials have resigned in despair. Meanwhile, bombing of Iraq continues almost daily. John Pilger investigates for the Guardian.
