John Pilger examines propaganda as not so much a conservative concept as a quintessentially liberal concept, an extremism that never speaks its name.
WikiLeaks is a rare truth-teller. Smearing Julian Assange is shameful.
John Pilger replies to Jemima Khan who, with others, lost bail money when Julian Assange sought and was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Jemima Khan has attacked Assange and his supporters as “blinkered”.
The real invasion of Africa is not news and a licence to lie is Hollywood’s gift
John Pilger describes the invasion of Africa and how its stated reasons are both false and unnewsworthy, leaving official truth to Hollywood.
Welcome to the Shammies, the media awards that recognise truly unsung talent
John Pilger inaugurates a very different prize for sham journalism, and not the journalism made infamous by Rupert Murdoch who “has been honoured enough”.
Leveson’s Punch and Judy show on the press masks ‘hacking’ on a scale you can barely imagine
John Pilger argues that the Leveson inquiry into the British press served to preserve a corrupt system, having omitted all mention of hacking on an scale that it touches us all.
As Gaza is savaged again, understanding the BBC’s historical role is vital
John Pilger traces the political history of the BBC’s reporting of colonial war as an essential part of an establishment consensusus, with Palestine as a vivid example.
The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in America
John Pilger describes the ordeal of a doctor who founded a charity to help the people of Iraq: a miscarriage of justice that says more about America today than the circus of a presidential re-election.
Making the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard
John Pilger describes the important part played by the Australian government in the spread of nuclear dangers, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s ending of her party’s long-standing ban on the sale of uranium, an essential ingredient of nuclear weapons.
Australia’s Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
John Pilger argues that Australian prime minister Julia Gillard’s internationally praised attack on opposition leader Tony Abbott as anti-woman masked the consequences of her policies for vulnerable Australians, especially women and black Australians.
The life and death of an Australian hero, whose skin was the wrong colour
John Pilger pays tribute to his friend, the Australian Aboriginal fighter for justice, Arthur Murray, an heroic figure almost unknown in the white society whose justice was denied him and his family.
