How many NATO aircraft have really been shot down or crashed? This is suppressed, of course.
Morality, don’t make me laugh
| John Pilger sees only one Balkan winner: the arms trade. |
A private and quiet sacrifice
Just as Aung San Suu Kyi is Burma’s most famous heroine, her husband Michael Aris was one of its heroes.
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.
Armed only with a camera
One of the greatest documentaries ever made is to be given a rare
screening in Britain. John Pilger reveals how The Battle Of Chile
records Pinochet’s crimes against humanity.
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.
This war of lies goes on
There is no victory in Afghanistan’s tribal war, only the exchange
of one group of killers for another. The difference is that President
Bush calls the latest occupiers of Kabul “our friends”.
September 11 – why weren’t there similar outcries at earlier atrocities?
| This week saw the end of an exhibition I helped put on at the Barbican in London, devoted to photo-journalism that makes sense of terrible events. |
Blair has made Britain a target
The prime minister’s “we are at war” statements are irresponsible in
the extreme. It is said that some of his senior officials understand
this, as do many MPs: thus the messages of “restraint” now being
whispered to journalists.
